The Best Sniper in U.S History
American Sniper is about a former Navy Seal Sniper, Chris Kyle, it is about his life from the time periods before, during, and after his honorable career in the military.
Before Chris joined the military as a navy sniper he was just an ordinary man from Texas, but after a while of living the ordinary lifestyle he wanted to change things up. So, one day he changed his life from working every day to being one of the greatest American snipers of all time.
When Chris joined he wanted to become a Navy Seal Sniper. The specialty he wanted to get into requires one person to have tremendous skill; that requires patience, shooting ability, and extreme dedication to accomplish every assigned mission. Over the training
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period he had his ups and downs. Finally, he passed his training with flying colors. Then right after his training he went on his first of many deployments. While Chris was on deployments, he in his terms was extremely lucky on the things he saw and accomplished. Most service members in his position do not get to see much action. His luck came to him because every time he went outside the wire he saw all the action everyone craved to see. With all of this happening Chris became one of the deadliest snipers in the world. He accomplished the most kills in US sniper history and on top of that he had the longest confirmed sniper kill shot. Finally, after such a long great career, Chris decided it was time to get out of the military and become a family man.
There was too much time spent away from his family and he wanted to get back trying to spend all the time he can with them. While he was out being a family man he still donated a lot of his time to train the local police department, on how to be effective in combat training and to approach situations the best way. But, his most memorable thing he ever did was he spent time with other Veterans who suffered with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and helped them cope with what they have, so they can live on with a normal …show more content…
lifestyle. I can say I really enjoyed how this book was written and laid out. It is a biography about a man who became a legend and yet it was about the man himself, who wrote the book on how he did things and saw them as they came to be, not by someone who did research on him and hope they got all the facts right. Also this book wasn’t just all about him it was about the family, friends, and other people he had in his life who meant a lot to him and his accomplishments. The way this book is written is a collection of small and large stories that he witnessed and the events he has completed in his life. In every story small or large it always has an opener, story line, and closure. For me to have read a book that has multiple stories and accomplish all of that is truly amazing. Every story kept me on my toes and wondering what’s going to happen. As each story is different in a sense in the end it all makes sense and blends together to make one well written book. The wording in this book and how detailed he put the situations he was in almost creates an intense imagination, you almost think you are with him as he witnessed the events when he wrote this book reliving his life.
What also adds to the realism of this book to reality of the situations he went through there was a good amount of vulgar written in this book. A lot of people think its shallow minded to put a good amount of swearing in any type of writing. For someone like myself who served in the military, like him, swearing is an everyday thing. The fact he did not hold back on anything and wrote this book saying things as he did it puts an extreme reality factor in this
book. This book kept me on my toes with intense stories and intense action. I just wish I could have had the opportunity to meet this man in real life. It saddens me to say though shortly after writing this book Chris was murdered by an individual whom he was helping to cope with PTSD. He was murdered doing something he loved to do and wouldn’t change it any other way.
Kyle, C with McEwen, S., DeFrelice, J. (2012) American sniper: the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history. American sniper : the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history. Chris Kyle Author. Retrieved from http://libserve.ivytech.edu.allstate.libproxy.ivytech.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=514&recCount=20&recPointer=0&bibId=366194
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I am reaching what kind of tiring snipers go through. I will try to get most of my information from google. So most of the snipers go through acutely all snipers go through a school to learn how to be a good sniper in the field. They have to learn how to overcome the elements of the world like wind, air temperature, and gravity. But they have to be good at marksmanship, observation, and stalking.