dome of obedience n.— «Maybe now you can get one of those new MICH helmets to wear. No more headaches like the kevlar “dome of obedience.” So comfortable, it doubles as a pillow…no shit.» —“SGT Shawn Snyder—Sniper...
Chechen ambush n.— «The insurgents had hoped to spring what is called a Chechen ambush. The strategy, Marines determined later, was to wound Marines attempting to enter the building. When other Marines came to help, an insurgent sniper...
yowie n.— «Defence spokesman Major Klaus Boehme says the sniper’s outfit of hessian bags and appropriate camouflage paint evolved from a British idea of about 35 years ago. It had been developed in the mid-1970s when the Army started...
yowie suit n.— «If they saw the pair in their “yowie suits” though it would be a different story. “They are itchy and hot,” Pte Wheeler said. Each sniper designs and decorates—or camouflages—his own “yowie...
yowie suit n.— «Beside the bed lies his combat vest, filled with magazines of live ammunition and festooned with grenades, while hanging next to the Girls of Ralph poster is a sniper’s camouflaged “yowie suit...
piquerist n.— «“Piquerists experience sexual gratification through any type of penetration of another person, and stab wounds, sniper activity, cutting and bite marks are evidence of such a condition.”…It is now clear that...