Zero Six Bravo (40 page)

escape
195–97
,
209
,
210–11
,
215
,
217
,
220
,
222
,
224–25

extraction
231–32
,
236
,
237–39
,
242–45
,
248–49
,
254
,
258
,
261–62
,
265–66

G2
airfield
66–67
,
68

high-altitude training
28
,
29
,
31

JTAC procedures
19
,
85–86
,
117
,
123
,
228

Kenya
20
,
22
,
26

LZ (landing zone)
71
,
73
,
74
,
75
,
78
,
79

Ninawa Desert
102–3
,
105
,
108
,
123–25
,
128

SAMs (surface-to-air missiles)
130

SAS (Special Air Service)
viii
,
5
,
14
,
15
,
47
,
52
,
61
,
65–67
, see
illustrations

First Gulf War
14
,
48

Kenya
23

Oman
20
,
23

Sierra Leone
96
, see
illustrations

World War II
47

SBS (Special Boat Service)
viii
,
5
,
15
,
47
, see
illustrations

Afghanistan War
12
,
29
,
64

First Gulf War
48

Nisha
, MV
12
, see
illustrations

Sierra Leone
96
, see
illustrations

September 11th terror attacks
12

SIG Sauer 9mm pistols
64
, see
illustrations

SLAR
s (
shoulder-launched assault rockets
)
64
,
215
,
223
,
237–38

Smith, Andy
14
,
87
,
114

Smith, Edward (“Ed”)

8th LUP (lying-up point)
185
,
192

escape
196
,
202–4
,
208
,
216
,
223
,
224
,
226

extraction
227
,
233
,
234
,
246–48
,
249
,
251
,
258–59
,
261–62

Smith, Jim (“Delta Jim”)
21
,
24–25
,
30–31
,
76
,
15

Southern Cross
209

Spann, Johnny
42–43

Special Forces Headquarters (SFHQ)
203–5
,
214
,
224
,
226
,
227–28
,
247–48
,
251

Stirling, David
16
,
272
, see
illustrations

Sunni Triangle
41

Syria
207–8
,
270–71

T-55 main battle tanks
43

T-72 main battle tanks
41
,
42
,
64
,
201
,
210–11
, see
illustrations

Taliban
12
,
29

Task Force Tiger (TF 20)
55
,
129–30

thermal imaging optics
173–74
,
176

Times
,
the
271

Timms, Sean
52
,
56

Tinker, Gav
84
,
88

TLZs (tactical landing zones)
89
,
98
,
101–2
,
143

Turkey
32–33
,
39

United Nations (UN)
11
,
38

United States 10th Special Operations Group
273

United States 173rd Airborne Brigade
273

Vickers jeeps
47
,
110

Viper Five Three
225
,
231–33
,
235
,
239

weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)
11

World War II
16
,
47
,
272

Illustrations

David Stirling, founder of the SAS, in the North African desert. Driving open-topped Pinkies—desert-adapted Land Rovers—M Squadron’s 2003 Iraq operation owed much to the tradition of Stirling’s long-distance desert raiding operations.
Getty

M Squadron was fresh from a marine counter-terrorism ship assault in the English Channel—seizing the MV
Nisha
, a vessel suspected of carrying a weapon of mass destruction to attack the UK. Here some of the men pose with a life ring, having stopped the
Nisha
reaching London.
John Doe