Zero Six Bravo (39 page)

M61 Gatling guns
225–26

March-Phillips, Sebastian
138

2nd LUP (lying-up point)
87–89
,
90
,
95

3rd LUP (lying-up point)
107
,
112

7th LUP (lying-up point)
142
,
144–45

ambush
147
,
154–55

Arabic lessons
49–50

background
36–37

escape
209

extraction
264
,
267

Ninawa Desert
98–99

rat story
89

McGrath, Mick (“Gunner”)

3rd LUP (lying-up point)
108

7th LUP (lying-up point)
145

8th LUP (lying-up point)
179
,
181–82
,
184
,
192

ambush
160
,
169
,
170
,
178–79

background
37

escape
201–2
,
210
,
215
,
216–17
,
218
,
220–21

extraction
226
,
243
,
247
,
264
,
267

Ninawa Desert
107

Syria
270

McGreavy, Chris (“Dude”)

1st LUP (lying-up point)
80
,
83

2nd LUP (lying-up point)
86–87

3rd LUP (lying-up point)
110
,
117

5th LUP (lying-up point)
133

8th LUP (lying-up point)
188

ambush
148–49
,
153
,
156
,
162
,
163
, see
illustrations

background
17

escape
192
,
193
,
225

extraction
241
,
242
,
249
,
254–55
,
262
,
265

G2
airfield
67–68

Kenya
17–18
,
19
,
22
,
28
,
28
,
31

Lancashire Hotpot
86–87

LZ (landing zone)
71
,
74
,
78

Ninawa Desert
100
,
105–6
,
124–25

McGruff, Andy (“Scruff”)

2nd LUP (lying-up point)
90

3rd LUP (lying-up point)
110
,
111

4th LUP (lying-up point)
119–20
,
121
,
122

5th LUP (lying-up point)
131
,
132

8th LUP (lying-up point)
183
,
188
,
192

ambush
162

background
29

escape
202
,
223

extraction
228
,
229
,
237
,
238
,
247
,
249

Kenya
29

LZ (landing zone)
74
,
76
,
77

Ninawa Desert
125
,
127

Qala-i-Jangi
29
,
42–43

MILAN antiarmor missiles
132–33

N253 road
243
,
256
,
259

Naval Surface Warfare Center
64

NBC (nuclear, biological, and chemical) warfare defenses
50–51

neoprene ski masks
84

night-vision goggles (NVGs)
8
,
25

Ninawa Desert
44–45
,
62
,
113
, see
illustrations

Nisha
, MV
12–13
,
18
,
68–69
, see
illustrations

Northern Alliance
12
,
43

NVGs
66
,
67
,
79

O’Brien, Mike
270

Old Testament
113

Operation Barras
96

Operation Caravan
47–48

Operation Eagle Claw
63

OPSEC (Operational Security)
50

Orion
123–24

Pinkies
5
,
16
,
19–20
,
23–27
,
51
,
64–67
,
67
,
98
,
102–3
,
105–6
,
165
,
177
, see
illustrations

explosive charges
187
,
191
,
199

Qala-i-Jangi
29
,
42–43

quad bikes
37
,
184
,
201–2
, see
illustrations

red illume
79

Republican Guard
60

Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin
16

RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades)
154

Sabkhat Albu Ghars
62

Saddler, Dave (“Moth”)
141–42

1st LUP (lying-up point)
80
,
81
,
83

2nd LUP (lying-up point)
5
,
95–96

3rd LUP (lying-up point)
115

5th LUP (lying-up point)
133

7th LUP (lying-up point)
144

8th LUP (lying-up point)
179
,
180
,
182
,
184
,
188
,
189
,
191

ambush
149
,
163
,
164
,
166
,
167
,
168
,
174–76
, see
illustrations

background
16–17