255 confirmed kills! Meet Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, Deadliest sniper in US history
With 255 kills, 160 of them officially confirmed by the Pentagon, the retired Navy Seal sniper is the deadliest marksman in US military history.
He never realized he was a good shot until he joined the Navy and got into the prestigious SEAL special operations unit . . .
For his deadly track record as a marksman during his deployment to Ramadi, the insurgents named him 'Al-Shaitan Ramad' - the Devil of Rahmadi -- and put a $20,000 bounty on his head. . . (Link)
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I just became a huge fan of this guy.
Interesting. He's probably the nicest guy you'd ever want to meet too. I thought that people in his professionpreferred to remainannonymous. Wonder what he puts on his resume for previous experience?lol!
My reading material the past few months has been war biographies.Currently reading aboutSeal/sniper teamsin the Vietnam war.
I added5 books to my reading list over the holidays; now thereare6. Got a Barnes &Noble gift card for Christmas too.Guess where I'll be this weekend?
I'm amazed that even the best snipers can make those shots over such long distances.
Why wouldn't air currents (even a gentle breeze) throw the bullet off? Or-- even air currents from heat rising from the ground in the summer?
This article was posted here on NT on January 2012...
You like sniper stories...... Check the world leader in kills from Finland.
To make matters more interesting. He also preferred iron-sights over scopes meaning he usually was closer in to his targets making both ingress and egress more challenging.
Thats one mans myopic view of the situation. I suppose another man might see it as he died trying to help another man. His obsession with altruism got him murdered.
We must stash?
Praise bad fish!
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Kyle was murdered after I read the book, and his estate was then sued by Jesse Ventura for slander. Maybe those events helped convince Hollywood that the story is movie-worthy. I have no plans to see it. I don't glorify killing people, regardless of who they are. If Iraq had a similar sniper, Americans would be outraged if his name ever got notoriety, and all he would have been doing is the same thing that Kyle was doing - killing the enemy in a time of war.
How does the movie glorify killing people but not the book Hal? You say you read the book but will not see the movie. What is the difference between the two? Would you avoid watching Bridge over river Kwai or Tora Tora Tora for the same reasons?
I won't be seeing it either. I like his spaghetti westerns and Dirty Harry movies but haven't seen anything of his since he made that snoozer The Bridges of Madison County.
Not too many comment on NT-- but I believe it got a lot of interest by people who landed here from Google or other sites?
Eh nah, I hear he was kinda an asshole.
Good on him for his service though, will totally give him props for that.