Marine Scout Snipers: True Stories from U.S. Marine Corps Snipers

by Lena Sisco

Overview

Author Lena Sisco, a former Department of Defense Military Interrogator and U.S. Navy officer, takes the reader through the missions and personal lives of U.S. Marines who have been forward-deployed in hostile environments all across the Middle East. She shows how they use the mastery of their sniper skills to mitigate threats and negate the enemy’s ability to disrupt U.S. operations. Her book lets you feel the stress and anxiety of their operational tempo; you witness the successes and failures and the struggles of these highly trained, brave, silent killers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493018574
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	09/01/2016
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Lena Sisco is a former Department of Defense (DoD) certified Military Interrogator and Naval Officer who served in the Global War on Terror. She is the recipient of the Joint Service and the Navy/Marine Corp Commendation and Achievement Medals. Ms. Sisco has 14 years’ experience in the field of Human Intelligence (HUMINT). She has worked for the Office of Naval Intelligence, Defense Intelligence Agency and partnered with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service in HUMINT Collection Activities. Ms. Sisco has been training DoD personnel in interrogation, tactical questioning/debriefing, site exploitation, elicitation, counter-elicitation, cross cultural communications, HUMINT policy, detecting deception and behavioral congruency for over 10 years. In addition to instructing, Ms. Sisco has developed courses and training curriculums and is Instructional Systems Design certified. She has experience in assessing individuals’ personality type preferences according to Jungian personality type concepts using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) tool in order for her to guide students to achieve the maximum learning experience in her classes. She also analyzes handwriting samples to help assess personality preferences. Ms. Sisco is certified as a Body Language Institute Train-the-Trainer Instructor and instructs with Janine Driver. In addition, she is Six Sigma certified. Prior to her career in HUMINT, she received her Master’s Degree in Archaeology from Brown University and has excavated sites overseas. She founded The Congruency Group in order to share her skills with DoD and Law Enforcement personnel and the private sector in order for individuals to achieve ultimate success in their personal and professional endeavors, put criminals behind bars, and gather intelligence information to save lives.

Table of Contents

Dedication vii

Acknowledgments ix

Preface xi

Introduction 1

1 "The Thrill Isn't the Kill, It's Surviving the Game" 11

2 Too Young for Combat 33

3 Doing God's Work 57

4 It's Not About Killing, It's About Living, and Somehow I Lived 75

5 You Have to Be Ready to Be Uncomfortable to Be Successful 107

6 The Warrior Spirit and My Brotherhood 123

Afterword: The Aftermath of a Tactical Decision 143

Glossary of Military Acronyms, Terms, Slang, Weapons, and Definitions 159

Index 173