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MEK: Iranian terrorist organization sponsored by the United States

Mérida Initiative: American aide package given to the Mexican government to help them fight drug cartels

MK-19: Automatic belt-fed 40mm grenade launcher

Mk48: A 7.62 machine gun that is smaller and lighter than the M240B

MP5: Heckler and Koch 9mm sub-machine gun

MSR: Main Supply Route

MSS: Mission Support Site

NAFTA: North American Free Trade Agreement

NORTHCOM: Northern Command

NSA: National Security Agency, handles signal intercepts

NSC: National Security Council

NVA: North Vietnamese Army

OBI: Office of Bi-National Intelligence

OGA: Other Governmental Agencies, euphemism for CIA para-militaries

ONI: Office of Naval Intelligence

OP: Observation Post

OPCEN: Operations Center

Overwatch: A stationary element that provides security, and cover fire if need be, for a maneuver element

PCI's: Pre-Combat Inspections

PIT maneuver:
Pursuit Intervention Technique, a technique to ram and stall out a car

PKM: Belt-fed Russian machine gun

PL: Platoon Leader

PMC: Private Military Company

PND: Mexican political party that came to challenge the PRI

PRI: Mexican political party that dominated the country for 71 years

PSD: Personal Security Detachment

PSYOP: Psychological Operations

PVS-14: Single tube night vision goggles

PVS-15: Dual tube night vision goggles

QRF: Quick Reaction Force

Rangers: US Airborne Light Infantry unit

RPG: Rocket Propelled Grenade

RRD: Regimental Reconnaissance Detachment, now known as RRC

RTB: Return To Base

S2: Intelligence staff section in a military unit

Samruk International: A Private Military Company based out of Astana, Kazakhstan. See Reflexive Fire for the origins of this company.

SATCOM: Satellite Communications

SBF: See Support by Fire

SCUBA: Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus

SEAL: SEa Air and Land, US Navy commandos

SEAL Team Six: US Navy Counter-Terrorism unit. Also known as Naval Special Warfare Development Group or just Dev for short.

Sicario: Spanish word for assassin.

SIG Blaser: State of the art sniper rifle with interchangeable barrels to allow more than one caliber of bullet to be used by the same platform

SIGINT: Signals Intelligence

Sinaloa cartel: Mexico's oldest drug cartel

SITREP: Situation Report

SOCOM: Special Operations Command

Special Forces: Also known as Green Berets, specialize in training indigenous forces. A separate unit from SEALs, Rangers, and Delta Force

Support By Fire: Can be an overwatch element, usually a line of machine gunners which fire on the enemy to support advancing riflemen who assault the objective

Sunkar: Elite Kazakh police force

SUV: Sport Utility Vehicle

Swedish K: Sub-machine gun

Technical: Improvised combat vehicle. Usually a pickup truck with a machine gun mounted in the back

Thermite: Burns at high temperatures and is used to destroy enemy equipment

Thermo-baric: Heat+Pressure, a type of explosive designed to collapse structures from the inside

TNT:
Trinitrotoluene explosives

TOC: Tactical Operations Center

UAV: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

UHF: Ultra-High Frequency

UW: Unconventional Warfare

Uzi: Isreali made Sub-Machune Gun

VDO: Vehicle Drop Off

VHF: Very High Frequency

Weapon's Squad: One of four Squads in an Infantry Platoon. Weapons Squad employs machine guns while the other three Squads are composed of riflemen.

WIA: Wounded In Action

Zapatistas: Mexican populist rebel group

Zetas: Drug cartel founded by Special Forces soldiers who defected from the Mexican military.

Jack Murphy is an eight year Army Special Operations veteran who served as a Sniper and Team Leader in 3rd Ranger Battalion and as a Senior Weapons Sergeant on a Military Free Fall team in 5th Special Forces Group.

Growing up in New York, Jack Murphy enlisted in the US Army at age nineteen. Completing Infantry Basic Training, Airborne School, and the Ranger Indoctrination Program, he was assigned to 3rd Ranger Battalion. As a Ranger, he served as an Anti-Tank gunner, Sniper, and Team Leader, and also graduated from Ranger School and Sniper School.

After several deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, he attended the Special Forces Assessment and Selection Course and was selected as a Special Forces Weapons Sergeant. Over a year was spent training in the Special Forces Qualification Course, including further weapons training, SERE School, language training, and more.

Assigned as the Senior Weapons Sergeant on a Military Free Fall team in 5th Special Forces Group, Murphy was again sent to numerous schools and training courses before being deployed to Iraq. Acting as the senior trainer and adviser to an Iraqi SWAT team, his Special Forces team conducted Direct Action and other missions across Northern Iraq.

Having left the military in 2010, he is now working towards a degree in Political Science at Columbia University. Murphy is the author of Reflexive Fire, Target Deck, the PROMIS series, and numerous non-fiction articles about Weapons, Tactics, Special Operations, Terrorism, and Counter-Terrorism. He has appeared in documentaries, on national television, and syndicated radio.

Jack's work appears frequently on
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