NOTES

1 George Roy Hill, dir., Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Twentieth Century Fox, 1969.

2 Robert Ardrey, Territorial Imperative (New York: Atheneum, 1966).

3 Sun Tsu, translated by Samuel B. Griffith, Sun Tsu, the Art of War, Manoeuver and Employment of Secret Agents, ed. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963): 105, 144–49.

4 Oscar Ratti, Adele Westbrook, Secrets of the Samurai, Outer Factors of Bijutsu, Ninjitsu (Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Co.): 324–31.

5 Gordon C. Baldwin, The Apache Indian Raiders of the Southwest (New York: Four Winds, 1978).

6 The Soldiers, The Old West Series (New York: Time-Life Books, 1974): 117.

7 The Mystic Warriors of the Plains (New York: Marlowe & Company, 1995): 523.

8 Robert B. Edgerton, Mau Mau: An African Crucible (New York: Ballatine Books, 1989).

9 Moshe Betser and Robert Rosenberg, Secret Soldier (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996).

10 John L. Plaster, SOG: The Secret Wars of America’s Commandos in Vietnam (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997).

11 Donald C. Cooper and Albert “Ab” Taylor, The Fundamentals of Mantracking (Olympia, WA: Emergency Response Institute and National Rescue Consultants, 1990).

12 Sydney Possuelo, “Hidden Tribes of the Amazon,” National Geographic (August 2003): 2–27.

13 Although based in South Korea, the scenario, events, geographic locations, and people used in this illustration are fictional. Any similarities to real-life operations are purely coincidental.

14 George Bloomfield, prod., Due South, Alliance Atlantis Communications, CBS/CTV, 1997–1998.

15 Human Anatomy and Physiology (Lincolnwood, IL: Contemporary Books, 2001): 359.

16 American Rescue Dog Association, Search and Rescue Dogs, Training Methods (New York: Macmillan General Reference, 1991): 22. Used by permission.

17 Jay Dix and Michael Graham, Time of Death, Decomposition and Identification (Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, 2000), 6, 4–5.

18 Dr. Dung Xuan Nguyen, interview with the author, June 2000. Dr. Dung was a surgical doctor during the Vietnam War, served approximately two years in a Communist reeducation camp in North Vietnam, and now works in Washington State as a general practitioner.

19 Debra A. Kumar, “Decay Rates in Cold Climates: A Review of Cases Involving Advanced Decomposition from the Examiners Office in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada,” Journal of Forensic Science 43.1 (January 1998): 57–61.

20 Dirk H. R. Spenneman and Franke Bernd, “Decomposition of Buried Human Bodies and Associated Death Scene Materials on Coral Atolls in the Tropical Pacific,” Journal of Forensic Science 40.3 (May 1995): 356–67.

21 Dix and Graham, 13–14.

22 Kumar, 57–61.

23 Guinness World Records 2003 (London: Guinness World Records, 2003), 258, 358.

24 Roland Mueser, Long Distance Hiking, Lessons from the Appalachian Trail (Camden, ME: Ragged Mountain Press, 1998), 83, 87, 85, 81.

25 “Mountain Operations,” U.S. Army Field Manual 3–97.6: pages 4–7 and 4–8, figure 4–3.

26 “Jungle Operations,” U.S. Army Field Manual 90–5: page B-2.

27 Webster’s Ninth Collegiate Dictionary, s.v. “fact.”

28 Always work in a two-person buddy team. This will help in maintaining an azimuth and checking each other’s re-creation of a sign. Most of all, the two-person rule ensures the safety of both team members in the event of a training accident.