Navy Seal shatters record for deadliest sniper in US history

Psh I have at least double this guy's kills in Battlefield 3 and probably 10 times that in Halo 3...

This guy named Chris Kyle had 255 kills during his 4 tours of Iraq, and 160 of them were "confirmed" by the Pentagon. In the US military a confirmed kill is when an officer witnesses and records the kill by examining the body so obviously they can't confirm every kill.

The insurgents called him "the Devil of Ramadi" and put a $20,000 bounty on his head.

If this doesn't earn you the title of "total badass", I don't know what does. I mean this probably even tops Rambo and he's fictional!

He used a .300 Winchester Magnum.

The old US record was 109 by an Army sniper during Vietnam. And the world record was by a Finnish sniper in WWII who killed 542 Soviet soldiers.

That last bullet point in the sub-headline was kind of a downer:

• Left the Navy after 10 years to 'save his marriage'

I wonder what killing that many people must do to your psyche.

Dude looks like gives no fucks.

@Sooty said:

I wonder what killing that many people must do to your psyche.

I imagine it's pretty hard to deal with at first. But after a couple dozen you probably grow accustomed to it like everything else in life.

My grandpa was a mechanic in the Army during the Korean War. He shot a North Korean spy with his pistol as the spy was gathering intel on their base. He told me he still felt guilt over it around 3 years ago.

Killing 255 people is not something to be proud of.

He did his job well.

@mac_n_nina said:

Killing 255 people is not something to be proud of.

Thats pretty impressive

That's fucked up, this man is being praised for killing 255 people? I mean it is amazing but are you people fucking serious?

@big_jon said:

That's fucked up, this man is being praised for killing 255 people? I mean it is amazing but are you people fucking serious?

In war it's kill or be killed. And reading some of the stories of a few of his kills, it sounds like many of them were to save the lives of his comrades.

That's pretty amazing, I can't even fathom knowing that you have killed literally hundreds of people.

@mac_n_nina said:

Killing 255 people is not something to be proud of.

@mac_n_nina said:

Killing 255 people is not something to be proud of.

This. And the fact that he received an award for it shows how far we are from being civil.

Impressive, but also sad that we live in a world where killing that many people gets praise. Seems like they're forgetting what kind of impact each of those kills actually had. If it was me I wouldn't feel like my actions deserved a reward.

Ugh, nice job everyone.

Really hope the people whinging are just too naive to put this in the proper perspective.

I don't really condone what is essentially massmurder, but damn. His job was killing and he did it reaaaally well. Out of a professional standpoint, this is really fucking impressive, not many people could have done the same, even if they dedicated their lives to it.

“Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill them all and you are a God.”  

@mac_n_nina said:

Killing 255 people is not something to be proud of.

"God blew the bullet and it hit him."

Saying he is a mass murderer is wrong, in war that is what happens and snipers have a very tough job because unlike infantrymen, tank gunners, pilots etc they look at their target very closely and see their last facial expressions as they shoot the guy.

This SEAL shot a woman who was moving towards a unit holding a grenade or shot a guy from 2000 meters who was about to fire an RPG at a APC. in these two events alone he is due praise

@kingchris28 said:

Saying he is a mass murderer is wrong, in war that is what happens and snipers have a very tough job because unlike infantrymen, tank gunners, pilots etc they look at their target very closely and see their last facial expressions as they shoot the guy. This SEAL shot a woman who was moving towards a unit holding a grenade or shot a guy from 2000 meters who was about to fire an RPG at a APC. in these two events alone he is due praise

Perfectly said.

Until any of us is in a war cituation we cant judge the man on "civilian terms" and he must indeed deal with the regret that such actions must bring , so I leave it to himself be his judge. And as long as he doesnt kill innocents , I dont care for his actions.

Simo Hayha is the top guy right? The stories about that dude are insane and put this one to shame. Which is saying a lot.   
 
Also, stop camping.

@Animasta said:

@mac_n_nina said:

Killing 255 people is not something to be proud of.

I think Simo Hayha (the world record holder) has an appropriate quote for this situation: "I did what I was told to as well as I could."

You can't blame the guy if he killed people who tried to kill him or his friends, in fact he should be (and was) rewarded for his actions

I joke a lot and make pointless crude comments on serious topics all the time, but in all serious, this is just fucked up.

@Turambar said:

@FancySoapsMan said:

@Animasta said:

@mac_n_nina said:

Killing 255 people is not something to be proud of.

It's a war. People die. You can disdain wars all you want, but disdaining soldiers who are good at their jobs is idiotic. What would you guys rather happen? Him get shot and killed? And no, "Let there be no war at all" is not an answer until soldiers are the ones making the executive decision of starting one.

Pretty sure nobody is saying anything like that. We're saying it's retarded that somebody would get awarded for killing a certain amount of people. NOBODY is saying he is a murderer that shouldn't have killed people, we're saying it's stupid that somebody would be praised and given an award based on the fact that they've had more confirmed kills than others. It's war, leave the deaths be. Don't make fucking awards out of who can kill the most.

I don't give a shit about some gung hoe American dumbass with a gun, but I do have few things to say about the article itself. It is horribly written, and it repeats things way too many times.

@Animasta said:

@mac_n_nina said:

Killing 255 people is not something to be proud of.

"Devil of Ramadi" is a pretty wicked-ass nickname.

All opinions on war and peace aside, that is pretty impressive.

I'm not blaming the guy, I don't know what he's like, but I do know that making an award out of it is kind of fucking terrible, so SORRY.

@Andorski said:

That last bullet point in the sub-headline was kind of a downer

Starting off the year strong with a great pun. Well done good sir.

People get awarded in games for killing the same skin-put-on-3d-model over and over again, about time we started giving the same useless awards to real life soldiers who actually put their lives on the line.  
Sure, wars is bad and all that but shooting people is his job. 

pretty crazy. it's nothing to be proud of. it's his job since he was fighting a war.

Rambo has 220 kills, by the way.

People get awarded in games for killing the same skin-put-on-3d-model over and over again, about time we started giving the same useless awards to real life soldiers who actually put their lives on the line.  

It might be time to hide off-topic again...

The man is just doing his job. Awful lot of high horses in here. In civilian life employees get recognized for efficiency and high performance in the workplace; his just happens to be on the battlefield. Calling him a murderer for killing enemy combatants is woefully misinformed. If it happened to be civilians this would be a different story.

@mac_n_nina said:

Killing 255 people is not something to be proud of.

Yeah, it reminds me of those asinine bumper stickers that say "God bless our troops, especially our snipers."

Fucking campers. I hate those guys.

@Animasta said:

@mac_n_nina said:

Killing 255 people is not something to be proud of.

Of course it is! All hail the American army, purging the scum of the middle east and bringing freedom and prosperity to our world.

@FancySoapsMan said:

@Animasta said:

@mac_n_nina said:

Killing 255 people is not something to be proud of.

A 255 KDR is pretty impressive, brah!

@Subjugation said:

The man is just doing his job. Awful lot of high horses in here. In civilian life employees get recognized for efficiency and high performance in the workplace; his just happens to be on the battlefield. Calling him a murderer for killing enemy combatants is woefully misinformed. If it happened to be civilians this would be a different story.

The amount of people one man has killed while sitting on his ass with a rifle means nothing. What should be praised are acts of valor and selflessness. It's not like he's Randy Shughart. He's just another overpraised Navy SEAL that gets all the glory.

@deathstriker666 said:

@Subjugation said:

The man is just doing his job. Awful lot of high horses in here. In civilian life employees get recognized for efficiency and high performance in the workplace; his just happens to be on the battlefield. Calling him a murderer for killing enemy combatants is woefully misinformed. If it happened to be civilians this would be a different story.

The amount of people one man has killed while sitting on his ass with a rifle means nothing. What should be praised are acts of valor and selflessness. It's not like he's Randy Shughart. He's just another overpraised Navy SEAL that gets all the glory.

Don't trivialize the duty of a sniper just cause you think they just "sit on their ass with a rifle" away from the thick of the battle. Putting yourself at greater risk makes you braver and more heroic, but it also makers you dead. Snipers are there to cover others and eliminate threats that could potentially kill your fellow soldiers. Whether they're doing that in the middle of the battle or out on a hill away from the heat doesn't matter. I agree that the act of killing people isn't the part that should be praised. Killing is a necessity in war to protect your fellow soldiers and the latter part is the part that should be praised. And it sounds like this guy did that. Does he deserve more praise and awards than others who also put their lives on the line? Probably not, but don't act like he didn't do anything.

@ZeForgotten said:

People get awarded in games for killing the same skin-put-on-3d-model over and over again, about time we started giving the same useless awards to real life soldiers who actually put their lives on the line.  

I wonder if he got this in his face everytime he popped a "bad guy"