Galdorisi George - When the killer man comes: eliminating terrorists as a special operations sniper

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This book is dedicated to the men and women I served with. You are a mighty and compassionate force, pitted against an evil so terrible that past generations must be conscripted to face it.

You are the greatest generation, and to walk among you was to walk among giants. Thank you for counting me among your honored numbers.

And to my family, both of blood and of the covenant, without whom I most certainly would have given in to my lesser nature, never returning from the abyss I so loved to gaze upon.

May our fallen never be forgotten, may our deeds be told for ages, and may those of us still living never succumb to our wounds.

Below, listed in reverse chronological order, are those Rangers of 75th Ranger Regiment killed during the War on Terror, as well as the SEALS I had the honor of serving with who also perished in this conflict, along with their aircrew of CH-47D Extortion 17, who perished on August 6, 2011, while attempting to relieve their brothers who were in desperate conflict with the enemy.

The friends that we have lost do not repose in the bosom of the earth, but are buried deep in our hearts, and it has been thus ordained that we may always be accompanied by them.

Alexandre Dumas,

The Count of Monte Cristo

1ST BN

SGT Justin B. Allen

SPC Marc A. Anderson

CPL Matthew A. Commons

SGT Bradley S. Crose

SSG Jason S. Dahlke

SPC Joseph W. Dimock II

PFC Eric W. Hario

SGT Tanner S. Higgins

SSG Jeremy A. Katzenberger

SGT Martin A. Logo

SSG Kevin Pape

SGT Jonathan K. Peney

SGT Alessandro L. Plutino

SGT Roberto D. Sanchez

SFC Lance H. Vogeler

SPC Christopher S. Wright

SSG Anthony D. Davis

2ND BN

SGT Jay A. Blessing

SPC Ricardo Cerros Jr

SGT Joel D. Clarkson

SFC Kristoffer B. Domeij

SPC Christopher Gathercole

SGT Tyler Nicholas Holtz

PFC Christopher A. Horns

SPC George V. Libby

SGT Thomas R. MacPherson

SFC David L. McDowell

CPL Patrick D. Tillman

SSG Ricardo Barraza

SGT Dale G. Brehm

SPC Thomas F. Duncan III

CPL Jason Kessler

PFC Nathan E. Stahl

3RD BN

CPL William M. Amundsen

CPT Kyle A. Comfort

SPC Ryan C. Garbs

PFC Damian J. Garza

SGT Patrick C. Hawkins

PVT John M. Henderson

CPL Michael D. Jankiewicz

CPL Benjamin S. Kopp

SGT Ronald Kubrick

SGT Andrew C. Nicol

SGT Michael C. ONeil

PFC Cody J. Patterson

SPC Bradley D. Rappuhn

SGT Anibal Santiago

SGT Jason A. Santora

PFC Kristofer D. S. Thomas

MSG Jared N. Van Aalst

CPL Andrew F. Chris

SGT Timothy M. Conneway

CPL Benjamin C. Dillon

SGT Steven C. Ganczeski

PFC Dillon Jutras

SSG Nino Livaudais

SPC Ryan Long

CPL Ryan McGhee

SSG James R. Patton

SGT James J. Regan

CPT Russel B. Rippetoe

SGT William P. Rudd

CPL Timothy M. Shea

SGT Cameron H. Thomas

SGT Joshua P. Rodgers

PFC Kristofor T. Stonesifer

SPC John Joseph Edmunds

EXTORTION 17

SGT Alexander J. Bennett

SPC Spencer Duncan

CWO Bryan J. Nichols

CWO David R. Carter

SSG Patrick D. Hamburger

TSgt John W. Brown

SSgt Andrew W. Harvell

TSgt Daniel L. Zerbe

PO1(SEAL) Darrick C. Benson

CPO(SEAL) Brian R. Bill

PO1(SEAL) Christopher G. Campbell

PO1 Jared W. Day

PO1 John Douangdara and Navy SEAL Dog Bart

CPO(SEAL) John W. Faas

CPO(SEAL) Kevin A. Houston

Lt. Cmdr.(SEAL) Jonas B. Kelsall

MCPO(SEAL) Louis J. Langlais

CPO(SEAL) Matthew D. Mason

CPO(SEAL) Stephen M. Mills

CPO Nicholas H. Null

PO1(SEAL) Jesse D. Pittman

SCPO(SEAL) Thomas A. Ratzlaff

CPO(SEAL) Robert J. Reeves

CPO(SEAL) Heath M. Robinson

PO2(SEAL) Nicholas P. Spehar

PO1 Michael J. Strange

PO1(SEAL) Jon T. Tumilson

PO1(SEAL) Aaron C. Vaughn

SCPO Kraig M. Vickers

PO1(SEAL) Jason R. Workman

Find what you love, and let it kill you.

Charles Bukowski

In spite of the brave exploits of men like Paul Martinez and those he served with, the United States is still engaged in the Global War on Terrorism in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. This means that many of the men whose deeds are described in this book are still serving overseas.

These warriors would be in additional jeopardy if their names were revealed in these pages. For this reason, Paul has used pseudonyms to protect their anonymity, as well as to ensure their continued operational viability.

America has one force with the single mission of direct action to capture or kill the enemy: the 75th Ranger Regiment. This special operations forcepart of the U.S. Army Special Operations Commandis a unique and distinct entity within the U.S. military. No other unit in any other U.S. military service has this singular mission of direct action.

Rangers stand alone as the most active brigade-size unit in the U.S. Special Operations Command, the lead U.S. combatant command engaged in the Global War on Terrorism. Since 9/11, the 75th Ranger Regiment has been the only continuously engaged unit in the U.S. Army, and for the last decade and a half, 40 percent of those deployed have been in harms way. Their mission is unique. Rangers dont patrol, dont train allied forces, and dont engage in routine counterinsurgency duties. They have a single focus: to seek out the enemy and capture or kill them.

Todays 75th Ranger Regiment traces its roots to the century before the American Revolution, when colonists in Maryland and Virginia began to organize groups of men to patrol the perimeters of their holdings as a means of early warning of Indian attacks. In 1675a full century before Americas war for independencein response to attacks by the Wampanoag, the governor of the Plymouth Colony had Benjamin Church raise a company of men to conduct scouting and raiding actions against the tribe. Churchs written reports included the phrase Today we ranged out four miles to the west, and thus the word Ranger was born.

The term Ranger was used again during the French and Indian Wars, which pitted the New England colonists against the French Canadians. The first Ranger Company was formed by a frontiersman named Robert Rogers. Rogers went on to form nine additional units. These ten companies took the fight for the British cause deep into French territory. Robert Rogerss Ranger Standing Orders , written in 1759, is quoted in the Rangers Handbook , which is issued to every U.S. Army Ranger today.

The Rangers continued to lead the way in Americas wars. In 1775, the Continental Congress authorized the formation of a number of companies of expert riflemen. General George Washington called these companies his Corps of Rangers. During the Revolutionary War, Colonel Francis Marion, widely known as the Swamp Fox, conducted direct-action raids against the British Army, a harbinger of todays Ranger operations.

Ranger campaigns continued in the following century. In 1835, the General Counsel of the provisional government formed the Corps of Rangers to protect settlers of the fledgling republic from marauding Comanche. This force then played a prominent role during the struggle for Texas independence, and later in the Mexican-American War.