Personal Narrative: The Famous American Sniper

If I could travel to any year, I would travel to the year 2012. I would meet Chief Petty Officer Chris Kyle, the famous American sniper. I chose him because I want to go into the Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEALs) special operations force, because he was a great person on the battlefield, and because he was a great person off the battlefield.

Chris Kyle is one of the most renowned military snipers. He started his life on April 8, 1974, in Odessa, Texas. He went to college at Tarleton State University for 2 years before becoming a rodeo rider. He fell off his buck, shattered his arm and had to get pins in it which eventually led to him not getting initially accepted to the Navy. He was finally accepted despite the pins in his arm and went to SEAL boot camp better known as Basic Underwater Demolitions/SEAL school or just BUD/S for short. After BUD/S he served four combat deployments to Iraq and had over 160 confirmed kills. After he had retired from the military, he started working with veterans, taking them shooting as a way to encourage them to join society. He also started Craft International which is a self-defense group that teaches military, SWAT, and police officers shooting and self-defense techniques. He died on February 2, 2013, while he was shooting with a Marine veteran named Eddie Ray Routh who had Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

He was always willing to run out into heavy fire to save an injured military personnel or innocent civilian. He said about war, “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.”To have that be what you regret about war, not the killing shows that you are a person who loves his country 's people just as much as he loves anything else and is willing to sacrifice everything for them. I would love to be that kind of person and believe that it is a good type of person to