Posted on 01/25/2012 9:36:58 AM PST by the scotsman
'A young cowboy from Texas who joined the elite US Navy Seals became the most deadly sniper in American history. In a book published this month he provides an unusual insight into the psychology of a soldier who waits, watches and kills.
As US forces surged into Iraq in 2003, Chris Kyle was handed a sniper rifle and told to watch as his marine battalion entered an Iraqi town. A crowd had come out to greet them. Through the scope he saw a woman, with a child close by, approaching his troops. She had a grenade ready to detonate in her hand.
"This was the first time I was going to have to kill someone. I didn't know whether I was going to be able to do it, man, woman or whatever," he says.
"You're running everything through your mind. This is a woman, first of all. Second of all, am I clear to do this, is this right, is it justified? And after I do this, am I going to be fried back home? Are the lawyers going to come after me saying, 'You killed a woman, you're going to prison'?". "She made the decision for me, it was either my fellow Americans die or I take her out.". He pulled the trigger.
Kyle remained in Iraq until 2009. According to official Pentagon figures, he killed 160 people, the most career sniper kills in the history of the US military. His own estimate is much higher, at 255 kills.
According to army intelligence, he was christened "The Devil" by Iraqi insurgents, who put a $20,000 (£13,000) bounty on his head.'
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HUH?? That group was ten shots in probably less than one minute. I watched the trainers shoot the 50 cal and have the same grouping at over 1500 meters, but that was a single shot rifle.
***[fires rifle few more times. Notices a tank has spotted them]
Private Jackson: Parker get down!
[the tank fires at the bell tower killing both Parker and Jackson]****
I was reading my dad’s old book about the Acorn Division in WWII. It told of a firefight in which they noticed a Nazi tank. One of the troops ran up a flight of stairs so as to get a good shot down the barrel and explode any ordinance in the tank’s chamber, therefore blowing up the tank.
Breathe, Breathe, sight picture breathe, breath SQEEEEEEEEZE BOOM, NEXT!
Sir Henry De Bohun.
Head split wide open with an axe. Bruce then of course preceded to give England its worst medieval defeat.
Bruce was sad.
That he had broken his axe.
LOL.
Whoa! I was talking about your tag! 4 inches of rain! yesterday in Texas, or. LOL
Love this one:
U.S. sniper, asked what he feels when he shoots an al-Qaeda member, replies: “Recoil.”
Oh, I understand. We had 2" at home, but some areas east of Austin had close to 10" yesterday.
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