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.
CHRIS KYLESavage, despicable evil. That’s what we were fighting in Iraq. That’s why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy ‘savages.’ There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.
More Chris Kyle Quotes
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None of my problems come from the people I’ve killed.
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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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I have a master chief that always said, punch and run.
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It’s not a problem taking out someone who wants your people dead. That’s not a problem at all.
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Just because war is hell doesn’t mean you can’t have a little fun.
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I’m just trying to get back to normal life.
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Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.
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Maybe war isn’t really fun, but I certainly was enjoying it.
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I thought I should be stronger than was possible.
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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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I did want to be the top sniper.
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War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good; war sucks.
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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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You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.
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I really don’t care what people think of me. I’ve got my family. I’ve got my friends. Yes, I have been trained to be a little more aggressive if I need to be, but I don’t go around thumping people.
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