Posted on 01/19/2015 8:49:17 AM PST by Star Traveler
There’s a story about Chris Kyle: on a cold January morning in 2010, he pulled into a gas station somewhere along Highway 67, south of Dallas. He was driving his supercharged black Ford F350 outfitted with black rims and oversize knobby mudding tires. Kyle had replaced the Ford logo on the grill with a small chrome skull, similar to the Punisher emblem from the Marvel Comics series, and added a riot-ready aftermarket grill guard bearing the words ROAD ARMOR. He had just [ ... ] moved back to Texas.
Two guys approached him with pistols and demanded his money and the keys to his truck. With his hands in the air, he sized up which man seemed most confident with his gun.
Kyle knew what confidence with a gun looked like. He was the deadliest sniper in American history. He had at least 160 confirmed kills by the Pentagon’s count, but by his own count—and the accounts of his Navy SEAL teammates—the number was closer to twice that. In his four tours of duty in Iraq, Kyle earned two Silver Stars and five Bronze Stars with Valor. He survived six IED attacks, three gunshot wounds, two helicopter crashes, and more surgeries than he could remember. He was known among his SEAL brethren as The Legend and to his enemies as al-Shaitan, “the devil.”
He told the robbers that he just needed to reach back into the truck to get the keys. He turned around and reached under his winter coat instead, into his waistband. With his right hand, he grabbed his Colt 1911. He fired two shots under his left armpit, hitting the first man twice in the chest. Then he turned slightly and fired two more times, hitting the second man twice in the chest. Both men fell dead.
(Excerpt) Read more at dmagazine.com ...
(mouth shutened, knocked over with a feather, hornswoggled and blue nosed gophered ... I submit to the master)
Biggest mistake those robbers ever made!
for later
Well, not really. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story, eh?
In Beckwith’s “Delta Force”, he describes one of the Delta operators going home one night as they were preparing for their mission, and a burglar was inside his darkened house. Of all the nightmare scenarios that you don’t want to accidentally stumble into with a Delta shooter.......
Thanks for the link to the story.
Is that what you're trying to argue about?
Jesse Ventura, former Navy SEAL (yes, he really was)...
I have it on good authority that Ventura was never a SEAL for a day in his life.
What else in this article is wrong?
Ventura is a liar who was never a Navy SEAL in his life.
He was a UDT frogman and that’s great, but circa 1972 they were NOT SEALs. You cannot retroactively make Ventura a SEAL by saying, “But all UDT guys were SEALs. It’s official. All the SEALs agree.”
BULL$#it. SEALs went to Viet Nam and got shot and blown up. UDT guys (like Ventura) went to Subic Bay in the Philippines and stacked pesos on bottles of San Miguel as a unique tip to the girls.
If you insist Ventura is a SEAL, just tell me, which SEAL team was he assigned to? Answer: None.
And why did the US Navy have two different designator codes, 5321 and 5326, to distinguish between UDT men and SEALs? Riddle me that.
Having read around the Web this weekend about Chris Kyle, I think the general consensus, with which I agree, is that this story, among others, was a complete fabrication and have no supporting evidence in police records or elsewhere.
I loved the movie, but it is clear that, in addition to being a top sniper, Kyle was also the master of tall tales. Ask Jesse Ventura about that.
I’ll take Chris Kyle over Jesse Ventura any day ... :-) ...
F*** them and the horse they rode into town with!
Jesse Ventura, as a “public figure”, overcame huge odds to win his libel case against Kyle, which has been sustained upon review by higher courts. While I personally think that Ventura should have stayed away with his lawsuit, especially once Kyle had died, the fact is that he apparently won his trial with ease.
“Kyle was also the master of tall tales. Ask Jesse Ventura about that.”
Of course Jesse “The Fake-SEAL Wussy” Ventura knows about tall tales, he’s told a number of them.
“the fact is that he apparently won his trial with ease.
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Really? “With ease”? I don’t recall very many juries needing 6 days to deliberate. This wasn’t won easily.
Great post...
Maybe Kyle should have thought of what might happen before he named Ventura as "Scruff Face" on the Opie & Andy show.
Apart from the logical flaw in inferring that only Ventura’s witnesses would lie for him and not Kyle’s, consider the testimony of Bill and Charlene DeWitt, two witnesses who were at the bar the night of the “fight”:
Bill DeWitt has known Ventura since the two underwent Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training together in 1969. . . . The DeWitts, Ventura and other BUD/S classmates . . . convened at McP’s bar the night before the ceremony — the same night Kyle and his colleagues were at the bar for the wake of slain SEAL Michael Monsoor. . . . ”I was eavesdropping on Jesse,” [Charlene DeWitt] said. She heard him criticize the war in Iraq but didn’t hear him badmouth fallen soldiers or argue with younger servicemen. She said she didn’t see him get into a fistfight or sport a black eye or bruised face in the following days. . . . Bill DeWitt also testified that he hadn’t seen or heard any of the events described in the book.
The defamation lawsuit wasn't about whether Ventura was a SEAL. Whether he was or not was not material to his being defamed by Kyle in the book.
If you insist Ventura was lying about the events of that evening, why did he win the defamation lawsuit?
You're the expert. You tell me what else is wrong in the article.
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