Chapter 2: No Bad Teams, Only Bad Leaders
1 . turn the boat upside down, get everybody into the water, then right the boat and get back in.
2 . Ryan was afforded these opportunities at spectacular outdoor adventures through the
amazing work of Camp Patriot (www.camppatriot.org), a nonprofit organization for
wounded veterans.
3 . About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior, by Colonel David Hackworth, U.S.
Army (Retired) and Julie Sherman.
Chapter 3: Believe
1 . Meaning soldiers
2 . SEAL only
3 . direct-action capture/kill raids
Chapter 4: Check the Ego
1 . IED, or improvised explosive device, the deadly roadside bombs that accounted for roughly
70–80 percent of U.S. casualties in Iraq in 2006.
2 . what the U.S. military called a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device, or VBIED
3 . Now called General Purpose Forces.
Chapter 5: Cover and Move
1 . M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles could carry six soldiers each
2 . “L-T”: a common nickname in the U.S. Navy SEAL Teams for the junior officer rank of
U.S. Navy Lieutenant.
Chapter 6: Simple
1 . casualty evacuation
2 . our call SEAL sign at the time in that particular battlespace
3 . J51, spoken in the phonetic alphabet as “Juliette Five-One.”
4 . two M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tanks with heavy firepower
5 . M113 Armored Personnel Carrier used to evacuate casualties
Chapter 8: Decentralized Command
1 . a SEAL term for a serious cheap shot or sucker punch
2 . 25mm chain gun with high-explosive rounds
Chapter 9: Plan
1 . We later changed the name to Camp Marc Lee in honor of Marc, the first SEAL killed in
action in Iraq.
2 . Quote from U.S. Naval Academy Web site, Public Affairs Office, John Paul Jones quotes,
http://www.usna.edu/PAO/faq-pages/JPJones.php.
Chapter 11: Decisiveness amid Uncertainty
1 . Chris Kyle, author of The New York Times bestseller American Sniper, and the inspiration
for the movie American Sniper.