I thought I should be stronger than was possible.
CHRIS KYLEIn my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Everyone of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers.
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One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.
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I don’t have to psych myself up, or do something special mentally – I look through the scope, get my target in the cross hairs, and kill my enemy, before he kills one of my people.
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But in that backroom or whatever it is when God confronts me with my sins, I do not believe any of the kills I had during the war will be among them. Everyone I shot was evil. I had good cause on every shot. They all deserved to die.
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You’re not just going out there, maybe sacrificing your own life. There’s also sacrifices still going on at home. You can serve in the military and have a good marriage, but you just need to be aware of it so you can take those steps to take care of it.
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I’m willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that I took.
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I have a master chief that always said, punch and run.
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I’m just trying to be the me that I am and not all of this other crap. I just want to be the family man, and if somehow I can make the money to get my ranch and get the hell away from everybody else, that would be awesome.
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I really don’t care what people think of me.
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Savage, despicable evil. That’s what we were fighting in Iraq.
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I just want to get the bad guys but if I can’t see them, I can’t shoot them.
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The rules are drawn up by lawyers who are trying to protect the admirals and generals from the politicians; they’re not written by people who are worried about the guys on the ground getting shot.
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The media cause more problems than they do good.
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I would love for people to be able to think of me as a guy who stood up for what he believed in and helped make a difference for the vets.
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I did want to be the top sniper.
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But real life doesn’t travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn’t necessarily have that ‘all lived happily ever after’ bit. You have to work on where you’re going.
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The joke was that President Bush only declared war when Starbucks was hit. You can mess with the U.N. all you want, but when you start interfering with the right to get caffeinated, someone has to pay.
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War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good; war sucks.
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I don’t know if I’m the best of the best. But I did know that if I quit, I wouldn’t be.
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No, the best way to stop a vehicle is to shoot the driver. And that you can do with a number of weapons.
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MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN’T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.
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You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.
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I am a much better father and husband than I ever was a sniper.
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None of my problems come from the people I’ve killed.
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Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I’ve done. I find it strange, but I also feel it’s my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.
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In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Everyone of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers.
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It is our duty to serve those who serve us.
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