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Praise for Sniper One
"A gritty, speedball run... strong, cohesive, and complete... it plugs the reader straight into the blood and guts of the action."
The Times (UK)
"A highly charged, action-filled, adrenalin-pumped, page-turning read that, frankly, knocks the socks off all previous British accounts in this genre."
Sunday Telegraph (UK)
"Full-on graphic detail... you can practically taste the dust and the cordite.... Quite simply, this is one of the best firsthand accounts of combat in the Second Gulf War that I've ever read."
Daily Express (UK)
"The most vivid account ever of total combat on Iraq's front-line."
The Sun (UK)
SNIPER ONE
On Scope and Under Siege with a Sniper Team in Iraq
Sgt. Dan Mills
SNIPER ONE. Copyright 2007 by Sgt. Dan Mills. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
www.stmartins.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mills, Dan, 1968
Sniper one : on scope and under siege with a sniper team in Iraq / Dan Mills.
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4299-3342-1
ISBN-10: 1-4299-3342-9
1. Iraq War, 2003Personal narratives, British. 2. Mills, Dan, 1968 3. Snipers
Great BritainBiography. I. Title.
DS79.76.M475 2008
956.7044'38dc22
2008020438
First published in Great Britain as Sniper One: The Blistering True Story of a British Battle Group
Under Siege by Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin Books
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
For Chris Rayment and Lee O'Callaghan, who didn't make it home
- View of Al Amarah city centre from above its southern edge, over a Lynx helicopter gunner's shoulder
- The Cimic House compound beside the River Tigris
- Sniper Platoon, 1PWRR. Back row, left to right: H, Smudge, Des, DV, Dan, Daz, Rob, Chris, Fitz, Ben and Ads. Front row: Pikey, Longy, Oost, Sam, Harry, Redders and Louey
- Yours truly on the look-out for enemy activity on Cimic House's roof
- Article picturing rogue cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, pinned on the wall of Sniper Platoon's living quarters
- A typical roof-top scene post-battle
- Cimic House's swimming-pool
- Louey and Daz in the rear sangar
- An L96 sniper rifle with a SIMRAD night sight
- The view of the OMS building from behind the wall where Dan's men first returned fire at the enemy, on 18 April
- RPG Alley
- View of the OMS building from the neighbouring park, a favoured launch location for enemy mortar teams
- Major Ken Tait on his return from a fighting patrol before he was banned from going out
- The remains of Daz's burned-out Snatch after the 18 April contact
- The awesome AC-130 Spectre Gunship
- Chris, me and Sgt Ian Caldwell in the driveway of Cimic House, preparing to leave on an arrest raid
- Chris snipes and Des spots while concealed on a roof-top in downtown Al Amarah
- Ads snipes and Oost spots early in the morning from the roof-top of Cimic House after a hard night's work
- An F-16 drops a laser-guided bomb
- Dale fires illume mortar rounds from Cimic House's roof his birthday treat!
- Best buddies: Chris Mulrine and US bodyguard 'Red Rob'
- Chris supports his L96 in a tripod on the roof of the Pink Palace
- The platoon's accommodation block after a mortar direct hit
- The painful bruise left on my shoulder by an AK47 round during the OPTAG patrol
- The hole left by the bullet in my body armour
- Pte Daniel Crucefix, who got stuck at Cimic House for three days with a piece of shrapnel the size of a credit card in his nose
- Pte Johnson Beharry VC poses with a belt of 7.62mm, a few days before he was critically injured
- Pte Johnson Beharry's badly shot-up Warrior the day after his first Victoria Cross action
- Chris with an L96 and Oost with an SA80 and underslung grenade launcher outside the Pink Palace
- Concealed sniping. Chris is Number 1 and Des is Number 2, during a raid on an enemy house
- Heavy metal. A Challenger II Main Batde Tank from the Queen's Royal Lancers
- Mortar-damaged roof sangar. I left with Oost just ten seconds before a round came through the roof and exploded inside it
- A US engineers' convoy burns after its huge ambush on 1 May
- Bored snipers watch a DVD during the July ceasefire. Left to right: Smudge, Harry, Ads, Longy and Pikey
- Snipers in the roof-top sangar, with the 'Royal Marine' team hard at work on the right
- The 'Royal Marine' sniper team. Buzz, left, and John, right, at work in the roof-top sangar
- Dan receives his Mention in Despatches silver oak leaf from Brigadier Iain Cholerton, the Army's most senior offficer in Wales
- Dan's Mention in Despatches certificate
Picture credits
Front and back cover photos of Dan: copyright Dan Charity/News International
Page 1: top and bottom, copyright Tom Newton Dunn.
Pages 2 to 5: all pictures copyright Sniper Platoon, 1PWRR, Telic 4.
Page 6: top, aviation-images.com ; bottom, Sniper Platoon, 1PWRR, Telic 4.
Page 7: top and bottom, Sniper Platoon, 1PWRR, Telic 4.
Page 8: top, Aviation-images.com ; bottom, Sniper Platoon, 1PWRR, Telic 4.
Page 9 to 16: all images on these pages copyright Sniper Platoon, 1PWRR, Telic 4.
Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders. The publishers will be glad to rectify in future editions any errors or omissions brought to their attention.
I would like to thank: Rowland White, for his faith, foresight, advice and enthusiasm from the word go; Tom Newton Dunn for the mountain of hard work, skill and dedication that made it all happen; and Carly Cook for her keen eye and excellent suggestions.
Sue for her unfailing support while I was in Iraq, and Sandra for her support and patience during the research and writing. Chris Mulrine and Adam Somers for when my memory began to fail me, Defence Public Relations (Army) for their honest advice, Rebekah Wade at the Sun for releasing Tom, and Mark Spicer for giving me the bug.
My daughter Elizabeth for watching over me, and my son Morgan and daughter Alexandria for giving me a reason to come home.
The men of fighting Y Company; in particular Captain Simon, Ian and Dalebert. Finally, all the chosen men of Sniper Platoon who I had the extraordinary privilege of leading and fighting alongside. Keep your heads down.
Dan Mills, January 2007
When you go home tomorrow, don't expect anyone to know what you have been through. Even if they did know, most people probably wouldn't care anyway. Some of you may get the medals you deserve, many more of you will not. But remember this. All of you are now members of the front-line club, and that is the most exclusive club in the world.
Lt Col Matthew Maer
Commanding Officer,
1st Battalion, the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
Camp Abu Naji, October 2004
SNIPER ONE
18 April 2004
'Gunman top window,' screamed H.
H was the first to spot him, from his position of height as top cover on the back of Daz's Snatch Land Rover.
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