Echo Platoon (43 page)

NILO:
Naval Intelligence Liaison Officer.

NIS:
Naval Investigative Service Command, also known as the Admirals’ Gestapo. See:
SHIT-FOR-BRAINS
.

NMN:
No Middle Name.

NRO:
National Reconnaissance Office. Established August 25, 1960, to administer and coordinate satellite development and operations for U.S. intelligence community. Very spooky place.

NSA:
National Security Agency, known within the SpecWar community as No Such Agency.

NSD:
National Security Directive.

NYL:
Nubile Young Lovely.

OBE:
Overtaken By Events—usually because of the bureaucracy.

OFACW:
Only Fucking Asshole Carrying Wire cutters.

OOD:
Officer Of the Deck (he who drives the big gray monster).

OPSEC:
OPerational SECurity.

OSINT:
Open Source INTelligence.

PDMP:
Pretty Dangerous Motherfucking People.

PIC:
Pissed, Irritated, and Confused.

PIQ:
Pussy In Question.

POTUS:
President Of The United States.

RDL:
Real Dirty Look.

RIB:
Rigid Inflatable Boat. SEALcraft used for clandestine insertions and extractions.

RPG:
Rocket-Propelled Grenade.

RSO:
Regional Security Officer. State Department’s diplomat with a gun.

R
2
D
2
:
Ritualistic, Rehearsed, Disciplined Drills.

RUMINT:
RUMor INTelligence. Urinal gossip. Generally, the information is of piss-poor quality.

S
1
:
Square one.

S
2
:
Sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up.

SADM:
Special Atomic Demolition Device. Man-portable nuke.

SAP/BJ:
Special Assistant to the President for Blow Jobs.

SAS:
Special Air Service. Britain’s top CT unit.

SATCOM:
SATellite COMmunication.

SCIF:
Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility. A bug-proof room.

SEAL:
U.S. Navy SEa-Air-Land SpecWarrior. A hop-and-popping shoot-and-looting hairy-assed Frogman who gives a shit. The acronym
really
stands for Sleep, Eat, And Live it up.

Semtex:
Czechoslovakian C-4–type plastique explosive. Can be used to cancel Czechs.

SERE:
Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape school.

SES:
Shit-Eating Smile.

shit-for-brains:
any no-load, pus-nutted, pencil-dicked asshole.

SIGINT:
SIGnals INTelligence.

SMG:
SubMachine Gun

SNAFU:
Situation Normal—All Fucked Up.

SNAILS:
Slow, Nerdy Assholes In Ludicrous Shoes.

SOF:
Special Operations Force.

SpecWarrior:
One who gives a fuck.

SSN:
nuclear attack sub, commonly known as sewer pipe.

SUC:
Smart, Unpredictable, and Cunning.

SWAT:
Special Weapons And Tactics police teams. All too often they do not train enough, and become SQUAT teams.

szeb
(Arabic): dickhead.

TAD:
Temporary Additional Duty (SEALs refer to it as Traveling Around Drunk).

Tailhook:
the convention of weenie-waggers, gropesters, and pressed-ham-on-glass devotees that put air brakes on NAVAIR.

TARFU:
Things Are Really Fucked Up.

TBW:
Tired But Wired.

TECHINT:
TECHnical INTelligence.

TFB:
Too Fucking Bad.

THREATCON:
THREAT CONdition.

Tigerstripes:
The only stripes that SEALS will wear.

TIQ
(pronounced
tick
and just as apt to bite you on the ass): Tango-In-Question.

TTS:
Tap ’em, Tie ’em, and Stash ’em.

U
₂
:
Ugly and Unfamiliar.

UNODIR:
UNless Otherwise DIRected. That’s how the Rogue operates when he’s surrounded by can’t cunts.

USSOCOM:
United States Special Operations COMmand, located at MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, Florida.

VDS:
Very Direct Stare.

vor:
Russkie godfather.

VTVE:
Very Thorough Visual Exam.

wannabes:
the misguided assholes you tend to meet at
Soldier of Fortune
conventions.

weenies:
pussy-ass can’t cunts and no-loads.

Whiskey-Numbers:
NSA’s 1999–2000 code word designator for highest priority intercepts.

WHUTA:
Wild Hair Up The Ass.

WTF:
What The Fuck.

ZULU:
Universal time designator used in formal military communications. Formerly called Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Abu Nidal,
322

Actions at Objective phase,
159
n
51

Afghanistan,
193
,
234

Alex Boncayao Brigade,
108
,
110

AMAN,
93
–94

Amanpour, Christiane,
10

ambassadors, selection of,
86

ambush,
39
,
41
,
43
,
58
,
167
n
55

     of Avi Ben Gal,
224
–29

     in killing of hostages,
77
–85,
91
,
104

American Embassy (Azerbaijan),
65
,
67
,
69
,
99
,
104
,
223
–24

     Marcinko needed intel from,
152
,
153
–54

     Marcinko persona non grata at,
151

     RSO,
105

     Sarkesian’s plan to attack,
317
,
337

Amin, Idi,
321

Andropov,
309

Annan, Kofi,
153

Apsheronskiy peninsula,
117

ARAMCO pumping station, Al–Hufuf, Saudi Arabia,
317
,
318

Arava (airplane),
327
,
330
,
324
,
336
,
339

Arleigh-gram,
47
,
58

Armenia,
64
,
111
–12,
160
,
301
, covert strike in,
106

     U.S. stance toward,
214

Armenian Mafiya,
193
,
295

Armenian National Foundation,
161

Armenian nationalists,
291

Armenian separatists,
104

Armenians,
63
,
98

Armstrong, Louis,
158

Astara, Iran,
15

     CIA listening post,
92
,
112
,
231
–36,
251
–61,
262
–79

Autonomous Karabakh,
295
,
296
,
301

Azerbaijan,
9
–14,
65
,
98
,
293

     covert strikes,
110

     culture of,
74

     ecological disaster zone,
96

     Marcinko’s mission to,
61
–66,
89
,
167
,
293

     NGOs in,
184
–86

     oil,
97
,
99
,
101
,
165

     Russian involvement in,
63
,
65
,
98
,
100
,
153
,
167
,
381

     Sirzhik Foundation program in,
161

     U.S. stance toward,
214

Azeri Army,
15

Azeri Mafiya,
193

Azeri special forces,
106
,
287
–88,
301
,
329

     Kurbanov head of,
69

     training,
10
,
11
,
69
,
76
,
105
,
106
,
110
,
169

Azeris,
16
,
63
,
88
,
301
,
345

     and ambush of hostages,
80
–81

     in hostage rescue,
68
,
73
,
75

     Israelis and,
96

     seized oil platform 16-Bravo,
9
–10

Baku, Azerbaijan,
9
–10,
75
,
88
,
117
,
135
,
145
,
274
,
299
,
305
,
336

     car bomb attack on Ben Gal,
221
,
222
–29

     CIA net rolled in,
98

     Marcinko’s mission to,
61
,
63
,
64

     oil barons,
173
–74

     oil companies in,
161

     old city,
89

     traffic,
123
,
126

     U.S. relationship to,
381

Baku Sport Jumping Club,
329

Balkans,
98

Barrett, Everett Emerson,
197
,
198
,
343

BDUs (Battle Dress Uniform),
5
,
23
,
283

Ben Gal, Avi,
93
–104,
106
,
111
,
154
–55,
160

     car bomb attack on,
224
–29,
273
–74

     order to kill,
290
,
294

     at Sirzhik Foundation reception,
190
,
196

Ben Gal, Miriam (Mikki),
94
,
95
,
155
,
190
,
217

     killed in car bomb ambush,
225
–29,
284
,
288
,
290
,
294

Benavidez, Roy,
247
–50

BJB (Blow-Job Bill),
93
,
92
n
29
,
114

Boehm, Roy Henry,
140
–41,
210
–11,
378

     credo of,
22

     leadership,
250

Bolling Air Force Base,
113
,
316

Boomerang,
91
,
95
,
156
,
169
,
285
,
286
–87,
354

     and ambush of hostages,
80
,
81
,
84

     and covert strikes 105,
106
,
110
,
156
,
227
,
231
,
242
,
244
,
245
,
247
,
251
,
259
,
262
,
264
–65,
267
–68,
269
,
271
,
272

     in hostage rescue,
16
–17,
18
–19,
24
,
28
–30,
32
–33,
34
,
38
,
41
,
44
–47,
51
,
52
,
57
,
58

     in mission to rescue Madison,
316
,
325
–26,
367
,
369
–70,
379

Bosnia,
66

Brendel, Bentley,
166

bribes,
163
–64,
165

British surveillance unit,
119

BUD/S,
20
,
326

bulletproof vests,
5
,
35
,
61
,
247

Bush, George,
109

Büyükagri Dagi (Mount Ararat),
111

Campo Imperatore Hotel,
311

car bomb attack on Ben Gal,
222
–29,
273

Carlos da Jackal,
322

Caspian region,
99
–100,
174
,
292
–293

     Russians in,
381

Caspian Sea,
9
,
63
,
96
,
117

Caucasian Mafiya,
149
,
302

Caucasus,
63
,
64
,
162
,
193

     diplomacy in,
184

     oil companies in,
165

     security policy for,
167

Caucasus Mountains,
299
,
348

caving ladder,
7
,
25

cellular phones,
146
–48,
150
,
276
–77

     Sarkesian’s,
212

     secure,
15
,
91
,
164
–65,
169
,
347

     terrorists used,
9
,
67
,
91
,
166
,
252

CenTex (Central Texas Oil Corporation),
9
,
10
,
13
,
41
,
68

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
10
,
12
,
65
–66,
157
,
294
,
382

chiefs,
59
,
105

CIA,
62
,
98
,
113
–14,
227
,
292
–93

     RUMINT,
192

     Technical Services Division,
173
n
38