Jack Coughlin - Shooter

transfer to Kuwait, 51, 56-662004

return to Iraq, 293

5th Marine, 91, 107, 113, 117, 120, 141, 149-50, 152, 163, 167, 181, 187-88

7th Marine, 41, 43, 163, 188

173rd Airborne, 80

REMFs, 287

Remington 700 receiver, 63

rifles

AKM automatic, 241

M16A4, 243

M40A1, 63, 86, 158

M82A1A Special Application Scoped Rifle (SASR), 1, 4-8

Marine doctrine on, 53

rocket, BM-21, 238

Roland missile, 92, 239

RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades), 115, 155, 160-61, 165, 171, 177, 206, 216, 226, 251

RPK light machine gun, 7, 86, 125, 170, 184

Rumaylah oil fields (Iraq), 82-83, 91

Rumsfield, Donald

Iraq strategy of, 111-12

restructuring by, 48-49

Russia, 73

woman sniper of, 32

Saddam Hussein, 53, 55, 65, 69, 136, 164

attempted smart bombing of, 76-77

Firdos Square statue of, 258, 262-67, 269

flag altered by, 239

troops’ feeling toward, 73

Safwan Hill (Iraq), 69, 77, 82

sandstorms, 107-9

San Francisco Chronicle, 114, 145, 260, 264, 286

SASR (Special Application Scoped Rifle M82A1A), 1, 4-8

scout/snipers. See snipers

Scout/Sniper School, 15-16, 62

“Seeing the elephant,” 205

Shatt al-Arab, 82

Shatt-al-Basra Canal, 96

Sheraton hotel (Baghdad), 255, 258, 271, 275-77

Shi’ites

gas attacks on, 83

post-invasion pilgrimages by, 286

Shinseki, Eric, 111-12

Sinbad the Sailor, 82

SMAW missile, 53

Smith, Ray, 131

smoke-checking, 25, 152, 178, 250

snipers

competitive shooters compared to, 32

deciding whom not to shoot, 123, 128-30, 137, 149

emotional reactions by, 10, 25, 147, 172-73, 179, 231-34, 236-37, 292-93

Iraqi, 202-3

in Iraq war, 85-88, 95-96, 115-19, 123-30, 136-39, 141-42, 152-60, 169-71, 183-85, 200-34, 239-44

Battalion Sniper Operation, 246-56

civilian-car shooting incident, 231-34

Sheraton Hotel outlook, 275-77

killing by, 25, 123, 291-92

laser check of range for, 86, 125, 128

logbooks of, 141, 170, 178, 232

McCoy and, 61, 110, 126, 136-37, 185, 197, 199, 214, 237-38, 246

mantra of, 202

manual on primary mission of, 21

Mobile Sniper Strike Team concept, 22-23, 27, 43, 48, 114, 121, 207, 291

in modern warfare, 21-22, 26-27, 291

observation log by, 272

protection needed by, 33

stealth by, 35, 138-39

in urban warfare, 123

AlBudavr, 135-39

Baghdad, 246-56, 270-77

Somalia, 1-10, 23, 30

war games, 30-39

women, 32

Somalia

author as sniper in, 1-10, 23, 30

ragtag militia in, 2

Rangers dragged through streets of, 244

starvation in, 2

Southern California Logistics Airport, 31

Soviet Union, woman sniper of, 32

Special Air Services (British), 264

Special Forces (Iraqi), 241

Special Forces (U.S.), 80

Steel Knight exercise, 37

Stumps, the, 41

suicide bombers, 192, 215, 228-30

of Abrams tank, 181, 225

Sunni Triangle, 269

SWAG (Scientific Wild-Ass Guess), 137

Taliban, 48

tank recovery vehicle, M88 Hercules, 264, 267

tanks

M1A1. See Abrams M1A1

tank

T-52, 5

T-55, 98-99, 187

T-62, 169, 187

Target Range Ripper, 61

Task Force Tarawa, 113, 115, 141, 164, 167, 175, 177

technicals, 8, 118

television interview in Baghdad, 273-75

thermal-detection gear, 95

thermite grenades, 177

Threat Condition Delta, 45

3/4 battalion, definition of, 41

“thunder runs,” 235, 258

Tigris River, 82, 104, 164, 167-68, 181

Diyala Bridge over, 194-95, 210-35

temporary bridges over, 235, 245

Tikrit (Iraq), 269

Tomahawk missile, 77, 93

TOW missile, 53, 94, 152

Tracy, Daniel, x, 75, 182-84, 201-4, 208, 211, 215, 285

Turkey, refusal to let U.S. troops enter Iraq from, 101

29 Palms (California), 17-18, 31, 41-42, 48, 75, 145

author’s return to, 289-90

240-Golf medium machine gun, 75

U.S. Navy, in Iraqi war, 73

Umm Qsar (Iraq), 101

Unertl telescope, 4, 63

United Nations, Iraqi WMDs and, 55-56

urban warfare, 26

percentage of casualties in, 33

snipers in, 123

AlBudayr, 135-39

Baghdad, 246-56, 270-77

Somalia, 1-10, 23, 30

war games, 30-39

as 360 degrees, 123

USFOR(U.S. Force), 29, 35-36

Uzbekistan, 49

Veterans of Foreign Wars, 55

Victorville (California), 31

Vietnam, 182

body count in, 157

snipers in, 23-24

West in, 131

war games, snipers in, 30-39

Washington Post, 263

weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)

Bush and the White House on, 55, 65

expected attack on U.S. troops by, 70-72

preemptive strike as needed because of, 190

rumors of finding, 190-91

United Nations and, 55-56

See also chemical weapons

West, F. J. “Bing,” 131

Wetteraurer, Martin “Crawdad,” x

White, Thomas, 112

Winchester Model 70 trigger guard, 63

woman snipers, 32

World War I, gas attacks in, 72

World War II, snipers in, 23, 32

Ziegler, Brian, 29-30

ZSU-23/4 antiaircraft weapon (“Zeus”), 5-7