Shock Factor: American Snipers in the War on Terror

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Shortly after I left the Marine Corps so I could provide a stable home for my two little girls, I flew to the Pacific Northwest to do an interview for Shooter, my first book, which detailed my experiences as a Marine sniper during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. I was scheduled to sit down with a local talk-show host of some renown. When I arrived in her studio, she welcomed me to her program, then asked, “So what’s it feel like to be a murderer?”

Twenty years in the Corps taught me to expect anything and be ready for it, so this question didn’t really surprise me. How I answered it surprised her.

“You don’t really believe that,” I said.

“What makes you say that?” she asked.

“Because if you really believed that I’m a murderer, you would not be sitting alone in this booth with me. And you’d already be dead.”

The show’s producer leapt to his feet, waving frantically for me to stop. The host’s jaw dropped. She had no response.

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