The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers (31 page)

Me with the RECCE communications member after the long-shot and all-night sniper hide. 2009

The terrain we were pinned down in against the Chechen sniper. 2009

Pemberton and me soaked in blood and water coming through the door with Cpl. Benjamin Kopp being carried out behind us. We had already been fighting for more than four hours continuously. 2009

Cpl. Benjamin Kopp being carried, by his machine gun that saved us from the Chechen just minutes before. 2009

On the roof providing sniper fire on targets as we call in a MEDEVAC for the wounded. 2009

The large blue doors of the compound leading out to the Marines, preparing to run through hostile open terrain. 2009

Cpl. Benjamin Kopp.

After a successful all-night firefight and special operations raid on an HVT in Helmand. 2009

Me with the Barrett .50 cal sniper rifle in Afghanistan. 2009

Our last photo as a platoon on the airfield in Kandahar. 2009

Sgt. Anibal Santiago. The father figure of the sniper section.

The quote on my sniper section plaque.

Contracting near the southern Texas border. 2011