America’s Deadliest Soldier?

Is This America’s Deadliest Soldier? -- Breaking Defense

The web is abuzz over Dillard Johnson, a retired Army sergeant first class whose newly released memoir, Carnivore, claims he killed 2,746 enemy combatants in Iraq with everything from a .25 mm chain gun to a sniper rifle to a hunting knife. Can that figure be right?

Well, it’s almost certainly too high – not because Johnson and his co-author, ex-cop and firearms expert James Tarr, are being dishonest, but because their methodology is flawed. It’s more likely that Johnson killed several hundred adversaries, not almost three thousand. That’s still a staggering number and how he did it says a lot about the tactics and technology of modern war.

Johnson is a genuine hero with a Silver Star, the valor award just two rungs below the Medal of Honor (the one in between is the Distinguished Service Cross). Like most decorated soldiers, he’s clearly uncomfortable with self promotion. Just play this Fox & Friends clip and watch his body language as the unctuous interviewer calls him and his book “incredible” four times in less than 40 seconds.

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Update: America's deadliest soldier or stolen valor? -- Christian Science Monitor

My Comment: 2,746 enemy combatants KIA .... a part of me says no way .... but another part of me says that with today's modern technology .... it is possible. For more on the incredible story of Dillard Johnson, see the video below. (Update: The 2,746 enemy combatants KIA claim has been cleared up .... this number is the number of enemy combatants that he and the men that he served with killed together .... not individually).