Authors: Matthew Gallagher

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Improvised explosive devices (IEDs)

attacks with

Bon Jovi

countering

emplacers

exploding

hunting for

reports of

ROE and

See also
Vehicle-borne IEDs

Improvised rocket-assisted mortar (IRAM)

Insurgency

Internet

Interpreters.
See
Terps

IP.
See
Iraqi police

IRAM.
See
Improvised rocket-assisted mortar

Iran-Iraq War

Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA)

Iraq War

departing for

evolution of

politics and

success in

Iraqi army (IA)

Bassam meeting and

Daraji and

Shaba and

Zaydan assassination and

Iraqi National Police (NP)

commando(photo)

Day of Ashura and

helicopter training for

Hussaniyah and

memorial service

Mongo and

Iraqi parliament

Iraqi police (IP)

Bassam meeting and

distrust for

election problems and

friendly fire incident and

Hussaniyah and

IEDs and

JAM and

joking with

Mojo and

mosque raid and

rockets and

sizing up

terps and

Iraqi security forces

performance of

photo of

Shaba and

training of

Iraqis, killing

Islamic Dawa Party

iWar

J, Sergeant

Jabba the Hut.
See
Nour, Sheik

JAG.
See
Judge Advocate General

Jaish al-Mahdi (JAM) paramilitary

Badr Corps and

Hussaniyah and

IP attack and

Iran and

resurgence by

Sadr and

terps and

toy RPG launchers and

Jaish al-Rashiden (JAR)

JAM.
See
Jaish al-Mahdi paramilitary

Joes

opinions of

Johnson, Boss

death of

memory of

remnants of(photo)

Johnson II, Boss

Joint-security station (JSS)

Jorge, Staff Sergeant

JSS.
See
Joint-security station

JSS Istalquaal

Iraqi control of

Pennsylvania National Guard at

photo of

JSS Ur

Judge Advocate General (JAG)

Jundis

Junior officers

discipline and

exodus of

generational gap and

professionalism and

promotion of

recentralized warfare and

senior officers and

Kevin (State Department rep)

Modhir and

Kipling, Rudyard

Knight, Suge

Axel and

Banana-Hands and

Big Country and

bomb and

Daraji and

dead dog and

diabetes for

dominoes and

fasting

Haydar and

as international man of mystery

IP attack and

locals and

masks and

microgrants and

Nour and

patrols and

rockets and

safety and

sniper rifle and

stereotypes and

Ten Bears and

translating by

on tricking heat

women and

Larry, Lieutenant Colonel

blog piece and

Boondock reassignment and

Bronze Star and

congressional inquiries and

leadership of

Mustafa and

officer trade and

promotions by

standing up to

XO position and

Las Cruces

Laser range-acquisition sight (LRAS)

Lawrence, T. E.

Leadership

layers of

styles of

Little America

Londono, Ernesto

Loyalty

M4 Carbines

Mahdi Army

Mail

Marshmallow, Sheik

Masks, terps and

McCain, John

Microgrants

Middle Army, Big Army and

Military-industrial complex

Military police (MP)

Military Times,
poll by

Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAPs) armored vehicles

Mission Accomplished

MND-B.
See
Multinational Division-Baghdad

MNF-I.
See
Multinational Force-Iraq

Modhir, Sheik

Kevin and

Moe, Major

Mohammed, Colonel

Mohammed the Ghost (Mohammed the Shadow)

Mojo

General Order No. 1 of

Mongo, Lieutenant

Christmas and

detainees and

flag-football game and

leadership of

NP and

Patrol by

photo of

raid by

West Hussaniyah and

Mortars

Mosques

raids on

MP.
See
Military police

MRAPs.
See
Mine Resistant Ambush Protected armored vehicles

Muhamed, Lieutenant Colonel

Muhammad, Prophet

Multinational Division-Baghdad (MND-B)

Multinational Force-Iraq (MNF-I)

Mussolini, Benito

MySpace

Nahias

Najij, Colonel

National Guard

NCOs.
See
Noncommissioned officers

New Years

Night vision

Nisoor Square, shootings in

Noncommissioned officers (NCOs)

Dear John tales and

generational gap and

Hot Wheels incident and

intervention by

loyalty of

photo of

politics and

recentralized warfare and

relations with

worshipping

Norris, Chuck: jokes about

Notorious BIG, Tupac Shakur and

Nour, Sheik

guarding

petroleum inheritance of

NP.
See
Iraqi National Police

Oath of office

Obama, Barack

Observation post (OP)

Odierno, General

Office Space: Iraq
(hypothetical film)

Officers

careerist

company-grade

executive

general

generational gap among

junior

oath of office for

politics and

promoting

senior

staff

trading

types of

See also
Noncommissioned officers

Oil refinery, burning

1-27 Infantry

101st Airborne

“Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage, The” (blog piece)

OP.
See
Observation post

Operation Phantom Phoenix

Operational security (OPSEC)

Orlando, Wildebeest and

Orwell, George

Osama, Bassam meeting and

Palahniuk, Chuck

Patrols

joint-

last

night

photo of

Patton, George

Pennsylvania National Guard

Pentagon

People other than grunts (POGs)

Petraeus, General

microgrants and

strategy and

website and

Phoenix

flirting by

Smitty and

translating by

Pistol Pete, Captain,

Platoons, function of

POGs.
See
People other than grunts

Politics

counterinsurgency and

military and

Polling sites, guarding

Pop culture

Porta-John chronicles, reading

Porta-Johns

Post exchange (PX)

Posttraumatic stress disorder

Poverty

Powell Doctrine

Precision targeting

Press coverage

Prime, Specialist

Chem-Light and

fobbits and

photo of

Private contractors

Privatization

Professionalism

junior officers and

Promotions

Prostitutes

Public relations

PX.
See
Post exchange

Qadas

Qasim, Nasim Abdul

Rahdi, Mayor

Ramadan

Rant, Lieutenant

Abbas and

EFP attack and

elections and

Hamid and

Hussaniyah and

on motivation

needling

photo of

polls and

replacements and

Thanksgiving and

Rashadiya

Rassim

Rear-echelon mother fuckers (REMFs)

Reconciliation

REMFs.
See
Rear-echelon mother fuckers

Reno-Gazette Journal

Republican Guard

Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC)

Revolutionary Brigade

Rip-Its

Rocket propelled grenades (RPGs)

Rockets

attacks with

ROE.
See
Rules of engagement

Romeo, Private First Class

joking by

night patrol and

photo of

Roosevelt, Theodore

ROTC.
See
Reserve Officers' Training Corps

Route Crush

Route Dover

Route Flames

Route Gold

Route Islanders

Route Lincoln

Route Maples

Route New York

Route Ninjas

Route Plato

Route Senators

Route Swords

Route Tampa

IED attacks on

patrol on

Route Texas

RPG launchers, toy

RPGs.
See
Rocket propelled grenades

Rules of engagement (ROE)

Saba al-Bor

aid distribution at(photo)

aroma of

combat outpost at(photo)

complaints in

described

Fadl and

and Hussaniyah compared

IEDs in

leaving

market in(photo)

microgrant projects in

money in

patrols in

photo of

return to

Route Maples and

Shias in

Sons of Iraq in

Sunnis in

Sabah Qasar

photo of

Saddam City

Sadr City

uprising in

Sadrists

Safety

terps and

Sahwa

checkpoints

Iraqi government and

program

Sons of Iraq and

Saif

Salon
(magazine)

Sandstorm, photo of

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

Second Brigade (Twenty-fifth

Infantry Division)

Secret Agent Man, Sergeant

HUMINT and

Las Cruces and

leads/tips from

Sections, function of

Security

fliers

meetings

peace and

sweeps

Security firms

September 11th

Shaba, Mohammed

Shakespeare, William

Shakur, Tupac: Notorious BIG and

Sheep, photo of

Sheikapalooza

photo of

Sheiks

Arab culture and

meeting with

Shia United Iraqi Alliance

Shias

elections and

extremist

holidays of

Husayn and

Hussaniyah and

Sons of Iraq and

Sunnis and

Show-of-force missions

SITREPs.
See
Situation reports

Sitting Bull, Staff Sergeant

Abbas and

Ashura and

Eddie and

HUMINT and

leads/tips and

Orlando and

source network of

Situation reports (SITREPs)

Skerk, Lieutenant

microgrant program and

stress for

Slum City

Smitty, Private First Class

Banana-Hands and

children and

Haitian Sensation and

Haydar and

Hot Wheels incident and

IP attack and

mosque raid and

Phoenix and

photo of

rockets and

shootout and

Soldier's Medal for

Spice Girls and

stealth and

Sniper rifles

Snipers

Snoop Dogg

Snow patrol

Soccer field, rockets at

SOFA.
See
Iraq Status of Forces Agreement

Soldier's Medal

Somers, Suzanne

Sons of Iraq

checkpoints of

rocket men and

Sahwa and

sheik council and

Shias and

Sunni

talking to

Sons of Liberty

Spade, Staff Sergeant

Beanie Babies and

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