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Abu Ghraib

AC-130 Spectre gunship

Ach-Dead

Adair (General)

Afghanistan

AGM-65 Maverick missiles

Aidid, Mohamed Farrah

AK-47

Albany, Oregon

Albert (PFC)

Alpha Platoon

ambulances

ambush, nonlinear

ambush method

American Army

American Revolution

American Sniper
(Kyle)

Amtracs

Anbar Awakening movement

Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
See also
Husaybah, Iraq; Ramadi, Iraq

camp K-70

Sunni in

Anbar Provincial Government

Al Andols district, Iraq

angle of the dangle

AN/PVS 10 scope

Arkansas brigade.
See
39th Enhanced Brigade

armored vehicle-launched bridge (AVLB)

Ash, John

AT-4 rocket

Aviles, Andrew

AVLB.
See
armored vehicle-launched bridge

Ba'ath Party headquarters

Ba'athists

Babineau, David

Badr Brigade

Baghdad, Iraq

Baghdad Combat Support Hospital

Bakersfield, California

Barnum, Bill

barrel discipline

Barrett .50 caliber rifle

battering ram

Beirut airport

Belle Chase Hospital

Benford, Jason

Beretta M12 9mm submachine gun

Berg, Nicholas

Al Betawain raid

Black Gun

Blackhawk Down

Blackwater

Blon, Joe

Blue Element

body language

Boeholt, Chris

Boston Globe

Boyce, Ross

financier hideout and

Iraqi Police Academy and

leadership by

in Sadr City, Iraq

Braddock, Edward

Brave Men
(Pyle)

Bravo Company

Bremer, Paul

Browning .50 caliber M2 machine gun

Buchholz, Darren (“Buck”)

Iraqi Police Academy and

at MOI building

pregnant girl and

in Sadr City, Iraq

at warehouse raid

Bud (spotter)

buddy teams

Bull Run

Bumgardner, Tyson

Iraqi Police Academy and

in New Orleans

in Sadr City, Iraq

Bush, George

Buyinah, Iraq

C2 packets

CAAT.
See
Combined Anti-Armor Team

cadet corps

Camp Corregidor

Camp Gannon

camp K-70

Camp Lee

Blue Element

Gold Team

Camp Robinson

car bombs

Carl Gustav rocket launchers

CASEVAC.
See
casualty evacuation

Casica, Ken

Casteel, Steve

casualties, civilian

casualty evacuation (CASEVAC)

CH-47 Chinook helicopter

CH-53 Super Stallion Marine helicopter

Charlie Company

Chastain, Ronald

Chechens

Chef Menteur Boulevard

Chiarelli, Peter

chicken switches

Christmas

Claymore mines

Coalition Provisional Authority

AH-1 Cobra helicopter gunships

combat outpost (COP)

Eagle's Nest

Firecracker

Iron

leapfrogging from

Combined Anti-Armor Team (CAAT)

Conley, Brunk

Continental Congress

COP.
See
combat outpost

COP in a Box

COP in a Can

Cornwallis, Charles

Corvallis, Oregon

couples

Cowpens

curfew

Da Nang, Vietnam

Dallas, Oregon

Dave (sniper)

Davenport, Jesse

death

Delfiorintino, Brandon

Delgado, Jason

Delta Company

Democrats

Desert Storm

Die Hard

Ditto, Brandon

Diyala Bridge

DOPE on the Scope

Downs, Adam (“Redneck Mujahideen”)

Downs, Dale

Downs, Justin

Dragunov sniper rifle

drawing

Dunham, Jason

The Economist

18 Delta Combat Medic school

8th Marine Regiment

82 mm mortar

Elko, Illinois

Engle, Keith

Iraqi Police Academy and

at MOI building

in New Orleans

at warehouse raid

EOD.
See
explosive ordnance disposal specialist

Eugene, Oregon

Evnin, Mark

explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) specialist

F/A-18 Super Hornet

Fallujah, Iraq

Fedayeen

1st Infantry Division

1st Armored Division

1st Battalion, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment

1st Cavalry Division

Fisters

Fizbo

Fort Duquesne, Pennsylvania

Fort Hood, Texas

Fort Polk, Louisiana

41st Brigade

forward artillery observer

Forward Operating Base Provider.
See
Patrol Base Volunteer

440

4th Infantry Division

Francis, John

Francis, Mike

Gannon, Richard

ghilly suit

Ghostbuster Charges

Gilliland, Jim

Giordano, Mike

Iraqi Police Academy and

in Sadr City, Iraq

Glade, Phil

glass

Gold Team

Gordon, George

Green Zone

Grenada

grenades.
See also
rocket-propelled grenades

Gunmetal Ink

Gushwa, Nate

financier hideout and

in Sadr City, Iraq

at warehouse raid

Habbaniyah, Iraq

Hathcock, Carlos

HEAPI.
See
High Explosive Armor Piercing Incendiary

Hellman, Andy

Hendrickson, Dan

financier hideout and

Iraqi Police Academy and

leadership by

in New Orleans

in Sadr City, Iraq

warehouse raid and

Hezbollah

Higgins, Jack

High Explosive Armor Piercing Incendiary (HEAPI)

Holland, Daryl

Homestead, Kevin

Howe, Wes

human shields

Hurricane Katrina

Husaybah, Iraq

Hussein, Saddam

Hussein, Uday

IEDs.
See
improvised explosive devices

Iman Ali Shrine

improvised explosive devices (IEDs)

in buildings

capabilities of

damage from

failed

makers of

minefield of

155mm artillery shell

in roads

timing of

Independence, Texas

Indoctrination (Indoc)

IP.
See
Iraqi Police

Iraqi Army

Iraqi National Guard

Iraqi Olympic training facility

Iraqi Police (IP)

Academy

border

brutality of

Mahdi Militia in

at Operation Graveyard

Shia

stations

Sunni

tower

Al Iskan district, Iraq

Islam, radical

Jackson, Andrew

JAG officers

JDAM.
See
joint direct attack munition

Job, Ryan

jogging lead

Johnson, David

joint direct attack munition (JDAM)

joint terminal attack controller (JTAC)

Jones (Brigadier General)

JTAC.
See
joint terminal attack controller

Jundis

Kadim, Karim

Karbala, Iraq

Kentucky Riflemen

Kilo Company

Kiowa scout helicopter

Klimp, Jack

Korea

Kuhlman, Casey

Al Kut, Iraq

Kuwait

Kyle, Chris (“The Legend”)

laser-guided bombs

Lassiter

Leupold scope

Little Rock, Arkansas

looting

Lopez (Lieutenant Colonel)

Luttrell, Marcus

M1 Abrams tanks

M1 Garand rifle

M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles

M4 Carbine

M14 rifle

M16 rifle

M21 rifle

M22 binoculars

M24 rifle

M40 rifle

M40A3 rifle

M-60 machine guns

M82 Barrett

M107 Barrett semi-automatic

M-113 armored personnel carrier

M203 grenade launcher

M240 Bravo machine gun

M249 SAW

M1114s

Ma Deuce

MacArthur, Douglas

MacMillan .50 caliber

Madras, Oregon

magazines

Mahdi Militia

capture of

in IP

in Najaf, Iraq

in Sadr City, Iraq

at warehouse raid

weapons of

Manassas

Mangus, Charlie

Maries, Kevin

Iraqi Police Academy and

leadership by

at MOI building

in Sadr City, Iraq

Marines

2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Division

2nd Marine Division

3rd Battalion, 4th Marines

3rd Battalion, 5th Marines

3rd Battalion, 7th Marines

3rd Battalion, 8th Marines

3rd Marine Division

8th Marine Regiment

Indoc

snipers

Special Operations Command

training for

Mark 11

Mark 12

Mark 19

Mark 48

Mark 48 machine gun

Marlin 18 .22

martyrs

Martyr's Monument

al-Masri, Abu Ayyub

Mavica, Joshua

Mawhinney, Chuck

McCain, John

McCoy, Bryan

McDowell, Jeff

Meals Ready to Eat (MREs)

Medal of Honor

Medellin, Jesus

MEDEVAC

Menchaca, Kristian

mil lead

Ministry of Interior (MOI) building

Mitts, Randy

Mogadishu, Somalia

MOI.
See
Ministry of Interior building

Monsoor, Mike

Morgan, Daniel

Mosul, Iraq

MREs.
See
Meals Ready to Eat

Muhammad (al-Qaida leader)

Mujahideen Shura Council of Iraq

Murder Inc.

Mustafa

Najaf, Battle of

Najaf, Iraq

National Guard.
See
New York, National Guardsmen; 2nd Battalion, 162 Infantry (2–162)

Nelson, Travis

New Orleans, Battle of

New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans Baptist Seminary

New Orleans Rifles

New York, National Guardsmen

Nigeria

Nightforce scope

9/11.
See
September 11

911

93rd Highlanders

9th Infantry Division

Obama, Barack

155mm artillery shell

101st Airborne Division

OP Sandbag

Operation Graveyard

Operation Iraqi Freedom

Operation Red Wings

Oregon.
See specific Oregon towns

Oregonian

Oregonians.
See
2nd Battalion, 162 Infantry (2–162)

parapets

Parson Limited

Patrol Base Volunteer

Paul, Dustin

Pendleton

PEQ-14 laser designator

pigeons

Planning the Target Zone

Point of Origin (POO)

politicians

POO.
See
Point of Origin

press

Abu Ghraib prison in

Iraqi Police Academy in

in Sadr City, Iraq

P-Sectors

Putin, Vladimir

PVS-22 night scope

Pyle, Ernie

al-Qaida

in Al Anbar Province

capture by

children working for

communication in

leadership of

marriages by

Ramadi declaration by

resistance to

Shuria Law under

Sudanese in

Sunni and

Al Qaim, Iraq

QRF.
See
quick reaction force

Quebec, Canada

quick reaction force (QRF)

Ramadi, Iraq

Ramadi Inn

Rat Rig

rear echelon motherfucker (REMF)

Redneck Mujahideen.
See
Downs, Adam

regret

REMF.
See
rear echelon motherfucker

Remington 700 civilian bolt action rifle

Rennie (Colonel)

Republican Guards

rifles

rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs)

ROEs.
See
Rules of Engagement

Romania

Roosevelt High School

Route 31 October

Route Hamms

Route Pluto

Route Rouge

Rover

RPGs.
See
rocket-propelled grenades

RPK machine gun

Rules of Engagement (ROEs)

Rules of Land Warfare

Rumsfeld, Donald

run lead

Rushdi Mulla, Iraq

RX51-PETN

Saddam Canal

al-Sadr, Moqtada

Sadr City, Iraq

Samarra, Iraq

Saratoga Campaign

Schmorde, Jim

Schreffler, George

Scout Sniper Basic Course

Screaming Eagles

SEALs

Team Five

Team Ten

Team Three

training in

Second Officers quarters

2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Division (2/8 Marines)

2nd Battalion, 162 Infantry (2–162)

second deployment of

2nd Marine Division

September 11 (9/11)

7.62mm

17th Street COP

Shadow Team

Shahada

Al Shatan (“The Devil”).
See
Kyle, Chris (“The Legend”)

Shema

Sheraton Hotel

Shia.
See also
Mahdi Militia

assassinations of

as enemies

IP

rebellions of

Sudanese targeting by

Sunni and

Shia Uprising

Shia Uprising, Second

Shock Factor

autopilot from

freezing as

irrational behavior from

training for

shooter's statement

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