Meet The Navy SEAL Who Became The Real Life Jason Bourne -- New York Post
With 160 confirmed kills, Chris Kyle was the deadliest sniper in US military history — and is the subject of a buzzed-about new film, “American Sniper,” starring Bradley Cooper as Kyle and directed by Clint Eastwood. In his new book, “Modern American Snipers,” author Chris Martin tells the history of these special warriors and how technology and skill produced a soldier who could shoot someone from a mile away. In this excerpt, he explains Kyle’s success — and reveals the one person who got the best of him.
Word of Chris Kyle’s accomplishments had just started filtering through the usual SEAL channels, but his status as an emerging historical figure was still largely unknown. However, one SEAL officer was keenly aware of what the big Texan had been up to.
The last time Lt. Larry Yatch had seen Kyle, he was just another new guy on his first deployment. He wasn’t “the Legend” at that point. If anything, he had been rather unremarkable, although that was considered a positive in itself because it meant he hadn’t done anything terribly boneheaded to draw attention to himself as new guys tend to do.
Now Yatch noticed Kyle’s mounting success in Iraq. What he observed astonished him.
“I spent a lot of time reading the intel traffic,” the SEAL officer said. “I remember very vividly reading all of those after-action reports and just being amazed.”
The macabre statistics alone were undeniable. “You’d read that he’d had 19 confirmed kills in a 24-hour period. It was almost unbelievable.”
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My Comment: This is a fascinating read.
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That was a great read with a nice laugh at the end.
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