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But Kyle, who was murdered by a fellow military veteran several years after leaving the Navy, embellished his military record, according to internal Navy documents

one official described Kyle as a “decorated war hero” and questioned the “motivations” of looking into Kyle’s account.

In 2013, he was murdered in Texas by a fellow veteran struggling with mental health problems.

Kyle also wrote in his book that he had 160 “confirmed kills” as a sniper. Service members in battle largely self-report the number of enemy combatants they kill.


In 2014, just over a year after Kyle’s death, a Minnesota jury found that he had lied in American Sniper and defamed former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura by claiming to have punched Ventura out at a bar in Coronado, California. The jury awarded Ventura, who served in a precursor unit to the Navy SEALs during the Vietnam War, $1.8 million in damages and ordered Kyle’s widow, Taya Kyle, to pay. (Taya Kyle is appealing the ruling.)
[op's note: disgusting to make her pay, american legal system is broken]
[edit: they should make the guy who killed Chris pay]


“SEALs are silent warriors, and I’m a SEAL down to my soul,” Kyle wrote in American Sniper. “If you want to check me out, ask a SEAL.”

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In early January of 2009, Chris Kyle stopped to get gas in a suburb outside of Dallas, TX. Chris was minding his own business fueling up his truck when two men approached him at gunpoint. They demanded he turn over the keys to his vehicle. Chris’s training immediately took a hold and he sized up the two men. He noticed one did not look very confident with a gun. At this point they were on the passenger side of the vehicle and Chris said, “let me grab my key from inside.”

Without hesitation Chris reached for the keys with his left hand and for a gun just under his left armpit with his right hand. He pulled the trigger a total of 4 times and the threat was down. Without even looking back Chris had shot both robbers in the chest and killed them immediately. To avoid media attention he got the surveillance video from the gas station, called his commanding officer, and then called the police. Out of respect for Chris the local PD did not go to the media.

Windows 98 posted:

Lol @ that "OP note". Why the gently caress would the guy who killed him have to pay? His lying and slander is completely unrelated to his death.

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The movie adaptation became the highest-grossing war film in American history.

paul_soccer10 posted:

https://theintercept.com/2016/05/25/american-sniper-chris-kyle-distorted-his-military-record-documents-show/


do we have any SEALS Here?

frankly i've lost all respect for this man after he lied about how many people he killed

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

Wait, what?



How the hell did that movie make so much money? Movies with a cast of thousands storming the beaches of Normandy as every pyrotechnic effect every made goes off? Nah, gotta catch this flick about a sadbrains sniper who got merced by someone with even more sadbrains.

Parallax Scroll posted:

if you lie enough you can make it sound exciting

Parallax Scroll posted:

also we had two very long expensive lovely wars that accomplished nothing so if you can make it sound like there was any positive aspect to it at all people wanna watch that i guess

King of Bees posted:

they'll beat your rear end if you talk poo poo about him in front of them.

King of Bees posted:

All wars need hero's man.

King of Bees posted:

I've worked with tons of them and while they don't particularly like the dude and what he did and said and got paid for., he is still a Seal and they'll beat your rear end if you talk poo poo about him in front of them.

paul_soccer10 posted:

that's so cool

Windows 98 posted:

I know a thing or two about laws regarding assault.

Windows 98 posted:

Actually they won't, because that is assault. I know a thing or two about laws regarding assault. They will get in your face and act tough and tell you they will hurt you (which is verbal assault and will hold up in court because they are trained killers and it could be seen as a real threat to your life).

Unless of course Seals make so much money they don't care about paying me restitution. In which case go for it, I could use the money.

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King of Bees posted:

Sorry, they will beat your rear end to pulp. and get a snack on the wrist from local pd who will take them home because they are drunk. They will pretty much face no consequence for their actions. I'm not up bragging the seals, I lived and worked with them for over ten years and they live in a different dimension than we do.

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City of Tampa posted:

i'm pretty sure that the liar's widow doesn't actually have to pay anything because the publishing company has insurance that covers situations where they publish lies and get sued for it

mdm posted: