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Kevin "Dauber" Lacz (born December 26, 1981) is a United States Navy SEAL veteran who served two tours in the Iraq War.His platoon's 2006 deployment to Ramadi has been discussed in several books, including Dick Couch's The Sheriff of Ramadi, Jim DeFelice's Code Name: Johnny Walker, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin's Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win and Chris Kyle's New York ...
On Rotten Tomatoes, American Sniper holds an approval rating of 72%, based on 294 reviews, with an average rating of 6.90/10. The website's critical consensus states, "Powered by Clint Eastwood's sure-handed direction and a gripping central performance from Bradley Cooper, American Sniper delivers a tense, vivid tribute to its real-life subject."
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History is an autobiography by United States Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, written with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. The book was published by William Morrow and Company on January 2, 2012 [ 1 ] and appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list for 37 weeks.
Hollywood's rendition of the life and work of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle might have looked very different. If the sniper's widow, Taya Kyle, hadn't appealed to "American Sniper's" director Clint ...
The U.S. Navy SEAL profiled in the movie 'American Sniper,' reportedly embellished his military record, according to military documents Real-life 'American Sniper' Chris Kyle fudged his military ...
Bradley Cooper took some time out of his very busy schedule to meet with troops, many of which could have experienced similar things that he re-enacted in American Sniper. The Oscar-nominated ...
Kyle was honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy in 2009, and published his bestselling autobiography, American Sniper, in 2012. In 2013, Kyle was murdered by Eddie Ray Routh at the Rough Creek Lodge shooting range near Chalk Mountain, Texas. [8] Routh, a former Marine, was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of ...
Rieckhoff was a strong supporter of the controversial film American Sniper (2014), writing a review for Variety stating "American Sniper is the single best work of film about the Iraq War ever made." [11] In 2015, Rieckhoff appeared on Comedy Central's The Nightly Show to defend American Sniper as an effective public awareness tool for veterans ...