Chris Kyle Character Description

Chris Kyle is a Navy SEAL that specialized in sniping. He is most known because he is the most lethal sniper in military history. It is also possible people had more sniper kills than him, but one part of being in the military is you must record every confirmed kill, if it is not confirmed as dead it cannot be counted. Chris Kyle is said to have somewhere near 160 confirmed kills. He was known for many other things though too, besides his amount of kills, he is also known for having a strong faith in God. Another thing he was known for among SEALs in particular is his great acts of courage. Chris Kyle also had a servant heart, it ended up tragically killing him on February 2, 2013. Even after he finished his deployments he went back into helping people from the

military that were struggling with mental disabilities or physical disabilities. Chris Kyle is admired as not only a military man but also as an example as a person.

Chris Kyle went served 5 back-to-back tours in Iraq. His 160 kills is the most confirmed kills is U.S. Military history. Having a confirmed kill means that when you shoot them there is someone to witness it, the second part of confirming it was you had to fill out a form describing the kill. Kyle talks about many of his struggles while working toward being a Navy SEAL, one of the most excruciating courses that they must go through is called BUD/S. It is six month training program, not meant just to weed out the people not strong enough to continue, but also to build up their physical strength. In BUD/S they have a week called ‘Hell Week’ in which the drill instructors do their absolute best to make sure that the SEALs are, in fact, physically and mentally ready for war. Fast forward past all of Kyle’s other military struggles during war and you get to after his 5 tours. He continued to help train new snipers and teach them his techniques including how to set up a sniper perch using anything and teaching them to develop their own way of sniping. Chris was respected for his attitude and his willingness to go back into the military. His wife wanted him to stop but he believed that this was his calling, to help his country.

One interesting fact about Chris Kyle was that he was actually a christian.

Sometimes it is hard for people to believe that people can be christians and still kill people. That is one of the best parts about the military is that in the end or even during the struggles, God can become bigger in your life. During the book Chris talks about the things that he did to keep God close to him in a time that can also be easy to throw God away. One thing he said he did was he always kept a Bible with him. Chris talks about beliefs that might be controversial to other christians, for example, his first kill was a woman with a baby in one hand and a grenade in the other. She was going to pull the pin and kill other people that didn’t need to die. This can be controversial because some people might argue that he could have saved the woman and warned the troops down below, instead he took initiative and took the shot to save them. He later said in an interview in 2013 that the hardest shots tend to be the first ones, you think and know you can kill someone but in your mind you’re still scared you might mess up or kill someone innocent. Chris Kyle even though he had some crazy beliefs was respected for them

still.
One thing that you can learn from the book American Sniper is that war is not easy. You will see things that aren’t meant to happen, that shouldn’t happen, yet they do. Another thing you could get from this book is that you do not really realize how much the military goes through for us to have the freedom of being able to worship the god we believe in, we have to be thankful for the people that sacrifice that everything they have. Soldiers are some of the most respectable people you will ever meet. There are too many soldiers that do not get the thank yous that they deserve to get for going to war. It is way too easy for us to live here in this utopia called America and not realize the things that go on around us. This book will teach everyone that they need to open their eyes and see what actually happens in the world. The news is always filled with terrible things, evil cannot be escaped, we must open our eyes and realize that it is there.