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    Ryan Job Reflection

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    Ryan Job was a decorated Navy Seal, a family man, and a modern-day American hero who served his country faithfully. Though he was blinded in the war in Iraq, he didn’t let that stop him from living life to the fullest and portraying his faith in his everyday life. Job was parallel to the Job of the Bible several times, always letting his hardships strengthen him and emerging as gold from the testing. There are some instances in my life and my friends and families lives that I connected with in…

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    “Seal team 10” composed of the four-man group, the “Good” guys, take the fight to a young, but cruel leader Ahmad Sha, and his “Evil” Taliban group in a realistic, gun fight, called Operation Red Wings. Their hopes are to identify, and either capture or eliminate the target, Ahmad. In this nail bitting thriller, the four highly trained, special ops, navy seal, team find themselves facing some of the fatest, well prepared bad guys…

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    In the clips prior to Lone Survivor Navy SEALS trainees ring a bell three times and place their helmets on the ground when they want to voluntarily fail SEALS training. By the end of the clips there’s a line of helmets showing that there is a limited number of sailors that passed. Sailors are exposed to extreme conditions in the training such as drowning and cold, yet they don’t go through these challenges alone as they are surrounded by their fellow trainees. This brotherhood in the face of…

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    Independent novel The book American Sniper by Chris Kyle is the true story about himself a navy seal sniper and his experiences during war in the middle east. Chris Kyle was a small town farm boy who grew up to be one of the most lethal navy seal snipers that there was. Chris was born April 8, 1974, in Odessa Texas. In his own words, he was a “cowboy” which meant that he loved working on a ranch and getting his hands dirty with hard work. Later down the road, Chris decided to join the…

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    There I was, standing still, eyes straight forward, and I could feel the weight of all the stares upon my shoulders. I had failed. And everyone around me knew it. The worse kind of failure, the one you can’t hide. My job was to command the Junior varsity unarmed drill team for a A.F.J.R.O.T.C drill meet we had. We had spent countless hours practicing the same sequence over and over again, trying to perfect every move. An Hour and half every day after school. But when the time came, it was…

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    American Sniper Thesis

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    little boy’s leg and kill him. He couldn’t do anything about it, which scared him deep. Chris had to take shots at children that were running at his team with bombs; this damaged him in many ways. He did anything he had to do to protect his fellow seals. Chris had a beautiful wife and two kids, a boy and girl. Chris and his wife went through a rough patch. She wanted to help him, but he continued to shut her out. Taya (Chris’s wife) wanted him to come home with her and the kids. He didn’t want…

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    Lone Survivor Sparknotes

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    Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of Seal Team 10 is an autobiography that exposes one of the most appalling yet valiant military missions, Operation Redwing. This infamous mission occurred following the delegation of four Navy SEALs to northern Afghanistan; their commission being to seize and kill a notorious al Qaeda leader. Disastrously, this operation ultimately did not go as planned leading to the deaths of three very heroic military leaders.…

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    confirmed by the Department of Defence, overriding Navy Seals sniper record. Kyle mentions in his book that it is far less than he actually killed. He estimates the number to be around 255.Kyle was born in a conservative state of Texas. He wanted to be a competitive cowboy. One day, he saw the incident on TV in which American embassy was bombed. He decided to join the army in order to protect the country. In his four tours in Iraq war as a Navy Seal, he became the deadliest Sniper in American…

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    The Great Seal of the United States of America is a symbol of what our nation was founded on. There is great meaning and symbolism in the design that I have always wanted to learn more about it. On July 4, 1776, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams were charged to form a committee to design the Great Seal for the newly established United States of America. These were after all three founding fathers, surely they would be able to come up with a seal that would capture the essence…

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    The most ferocious fighting force in the world, the United States Navy SEALs are “never out of the fight” (Luttrell 18). Marcus Luttrell, former Navy SEAL, describes his fight for his and his buddies’ lives in his eyewitness account of Operation Redwing in Lone Survivor. This heroic narrative, meant for those interested in the cold-hearted truths of war and a testament to survival, expose just that. Luttrell includes the last words he ever heard from his friends and other details of death to get…

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