![]() Insurgents who once carried guns now toted rocket-propelled grenades. On each tour of duty, the fighting grew fiercer and Kyle’s job grew harder. “I’d put that everywhere.”Īfter Kyle’s initial deployment to Iraq in 2003, he returned to fight in Fallujah in 2004, Ramadi in 2006 and Baghdad in 2008. “That’s the number I’d care about,” he said. The 160 kills credited to Kyle are more than for any sniper in American history, but the Navy SEAL told D Magazine that he wished instead that he could have calculated the number of people he saved. Kyle’s sole mission in Iraq was to save his fellow servicemen, and he proved to be such a deadly sniper that Iraqi insurgents placed a $20,000 bounty on the head of the man they called “Al-Shaitan Ramad,” or “the Devil of Ramadi.” To Kyle’s fellow soldiers, however, he was known as “The Legend.” I was just making sure she didn’t take any Marines with her,” Kyle wrote in his 2012 combat memoir, “American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. “It was my duty to shoot, and I don’t regret it. ![]() Many more deadly shots would be fired, but the hesitation would never return. It was Kyle’s first kill with a sniper rifle. The woman fell dead to the ground along with the exploding grenade, which did no harm to the Marines. Kyle hesitated as the Marines continued to march closer. “Take a shot,” ordered Kyle’s platoon chief. (Credit: Paul Moseley/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/MCT via Getty Images) Kyle’s autobiography, “American Sniper,” was published in 2012. As she neared the Marines, Kyle watched through the crosshairs as the woman reached beneath her robe and pulled out a yellow grenade. Fifty yards away, he suddenly saw the door of a small house open and a woman step outside with her child. 300 Winchester Magnum, Kyle watched as a Marine convoy approached. Stationed on rooftops, Kyle and his fellow SEALs protected Marines squads going door to door from insurgent ambushes.Īfter entering the city of Nasiriya in the war’s early days, Kyle stationed himself atop a building seized by the SEALs. After landing on the al-Faw Peninsula at the war’s outset in March 2003, the SEALs joined the Marines on their march north toward the capital city of Baghdad. “If I see a puddle,” he told Time magazine, “I will walk around it.”Īfter serving in a number of classified missions, Kyle was deployed with members of platoon “Charlie” of SEAL Team 3 to fight in the Iraq War. After two years of college and working as a ranch hand, the 24-year-old Kyle quit school and joined the elite Navy SEALs-although he hated water. Growing up in Texas, Kyle hunted with his father and brother. The most lethal sniper in American history was the son of a church deacon and a Sunday-school teacher. The actual number could be almost double. The Pentagon has credited Kyle with over 160 kills. As a sharpshooter serving in Iraq, that job had deadly results. ![]() Unlike any American before him, Chris Kyle performed his job with pinpoint accuracy.
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