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American Sniper The Movie: Not What I Was Expecting

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I first met Chris Kyle when he was a new guy at SEAL Team 3, then later when I checked on board the Naval Special Warfare (NSW) sniper program as an instructor. My friend Eric Davis mentored him personally (we have a mentorship program at the course), and Chris finished middle of the pack as a student, but he had good instincts, and all of us instructors knew this.

Chris came down to my office after one of his tours and I remembered us having a laugh together when one of the SWCC (Special Boat Team) guys called down and asked me on speaker phone, “what are the requirements I need to complete to attend the course?”  I replied very simply, “BUD/S” (Basic Underwater Demolition SEAL Training), and hung up the phone.

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  • Western Veteran

    I thought Chris Kyle was well portrayed, for a movie. Revealing details about sniper training would be an OPSEC violation at best, and probably boring to average movie goers at worst. Wearing patches and having technical dialog (breecher) where it isn't done is just cuz the average joe, who doesn't serve, can better understand what's going on. Maybe too much drama, but I think the point of American Sniper, to a great director like Clint Eastwood (who served), was to show the cost of war on the troops, even the toughest of them.

  • Waterborne

    http://www.amazon.com/American-Sniper-Blu-ray-Digital-UltraViolet/dp/B00RGZ915C

  • Waterborne

    Heres the link to Forged Merchandise for American Sniper... http://www.forged.com/collections/the-legend?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=AmericanSniper-email

  • Klynn23

    Waterborne beautiful!

  • Waterborne

    http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/01/21/bradley-cooper-surprises-veterans-at-american-sniper-screening/