It’s November 2004. Thanksgiving time. The second battle of Fallujah has launched, and Kyle is swaddled in silence atop an upturned baby crib, studying the enemy through a Nightforce 4.5-22 power scope attached to a .300 Win Mag rifle.
He was able to notch 7 confirmed kills in that week.
Has a tough shoulder:
He got his first gun at 8 years old — a bolt-action 30-06 rifle.
Kyle credits a higher authority for his longest kill.
From 2,100 yards away from a village just outside of Sadr City in 2008, he spied a man aiming a rocket launcher at an Army convoy and squeezed off one shot from his .338 Lapua Magnum rifle.
About 1.2 miles, actually.
This is a man you want on YOUR side. Damn.
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