Sniper: American Single-Shot Warriors In Iraq And Afghanistan

by Gina Cavallaro, Matt Larsen, Richard Cody (Foreword by)

Overview

From Afghanistan's Hindu Kush peaks and sunbaked Helmand Valley to Baghdad, Mosul, and Ramadi in Iraq, American snipers have braved heart-pounding situations to hit their human targets dead-on. Few military feats stir the imagination like the image of the pair of riflemen waiting quietly in a building, a bomb crater, or a mountain pass for a Taliban or Al Qaeda fighter to walk into their crosshairs.

Sniper presents real-life tales from the military's frontline snipers-their hits and their misses, the anguish of loss, and the anxiety of the first kill. Authors Gina Cavallaro and Matt Larsen provide riveting accounts of American soldiers and marines on the battlefield, and take a rare look at how Rangers and Special Forces snipers train and operate, and how the war on the terror has changed the role of military snipers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781599218557
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	09/01/2010
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Gina Cavallaro is one of America’s most experienced war correspondents. She has traveled to every corner of today’s war zones and walked the dangerous streets with the troops to tell their real stories of life on the ground in America’s most protracted conflict since the Vietnam War. She is a writer for Army Times. Matt Larsen, a longtime trainer in hand-to-hand combat and survival techniques, served as a sniper in the U.S. Marine Corps and the Army Rangers during the course of a twenty-two-year career in the military. He recently revised and updated the U.S. Army Survival Handbook (Lyons). He is the Director of the Modern Army Combatives Program, which he created, and the Commandant of the U.S. Army Combatives School, which he founded at Fort Benning, Georgia.

Table of Contents

Foreword Richard A. Cody vii

Preface: A Mother's Gift xii

Chapter 1 Going to War: Lessons from the Hindu Kush 1

Chapter 2 A Taunting Enemy 16

Chapter 3 "The Nastiest Fight" 22

Chapter 4 Other People's Houses 35

Chapter 5 In Their Own Words 44

Chapter 6 Rangers: Sniper Assaulters 62

Chapter 7 Operators as Teachers: Lessons Learned at Range 37 74

Chapter 8 Hidden in Plain Sight 85

Chapter 9 The Hide Site: Three Stories 96

Chapter 10 Sneaking Around in Salman Pak 130

Chapter 11 In the Glint of a Scope 142

Chapter 12 Freaky Bull's-eye Shot 152

Chapter 13 Shots Not Taken 161

Chapter 14 Snipers, Brothers 182

Notes and Acknowledgments 202

Glossary 205

Index 211

About the Authors 216

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"The best-of-the-best snipers in action today discuss gunfights, long distance shots, stalking, and more. This is real, it is stirring, and yes, even horrifying." —-Shelf Life

Editorial Reviews

"The best-of-the-best snipers in action today discuss gunfights, long distance shots, stalking, and more. This is real, it is stirring, and yes, even horrifying."- Larry Cox, Shelf Life

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