Chris joined the Navy in 1999 and was sent to Basic Underwater Demolition SEAL School. He then joined the Sniper Element Charlie Platoon of SEAL Team 3 immediately after. His first mission was to capture an Iraqi oil refinery so it wouldn’t be turned into a field fire, but as soon as they entered enemy territory their armored truck got stuck. Instead of giving up, Chris proceeded to take the machine gun off the truck, and set off with his team on foot, and still made it to the refinery in time, taking out the enemy in the process. Afterwards Chris’ team was given the job of helping marines clear a town in Baghdad, where his chief gave him his signature rifle, a bolt action .300 Winchester Magnum, with which he could take out targets from up to 1,800 yards.
When shots were fired the AIM members shot back to protect the people. The FBI agents generalized Peltier and the other members of the AIM group as a threat and immediately began to shoot at them. Only three out of forty Native Americans that took part in the shoot out were brought to trial. Bob Robideau and Dino Butler trial resulted as non-guilty because they were acquitted for self-defense by the jury of Iowa. Leonard Peltier being the third person brought to trial fled to Canada because he thought he would not receive a fair trail in the United States.
Billy had learned a lot about nature and life and the Indian could see it. He told him not to keep it to himself and share it with others. Billy thought he was going to arrive home and find everything the way he had left it, but the house was empty and there was no trace of his parents or his brother, Boyd. After finding out his parents had been murdered by two Indians he went for his brother and wanted to return to Mexico to find his fathers horses and seek revenge on the Indians who had killed his parents. Billy wants to find peace within him and the only way he can have it is to have revenge on the Indians who killed his parents.
Zain Saleemuddin Mrs. Wyeth English 2- PAP, A1 1/7/13 “The Lives of the Dead” by Tim O’Brien Plot Summary It has been O’Brien’s 4th day in war at a village near the South China Sea. His platoon was taking sniper fire so Lieutenant Jimmy Cross called in an airstrike watching the village burn. The soldiers gathered around a dead old man and were shaking its hand. Dave Jensen tried to get O’Brien to do the same thing but he refused because he was scared. Kiowa thought his action was impressive and complimenting him of having guts to say no.
Chapter 4 Main events Introduction of the word Conrad: One of the biggest events of this chapter is the introduction of the word Conrad. The narrator talks about the snipers and what will happen to them when they are discovered. He continues on to say “ He will utter that magical word, Conrad; then we will strike him down”. The word Conrad means friend, the Germans are in the exact same situation as them; so the word Conrad shows that they are equal and when used in battle they surrender. However, we learn that the word has no meaning to the soldiers as they would kill the sniper and any German soldier.
Lone Survivor Book Review ` Lone Survivor is a true story about Seal Team 10 and Operation Redwing.Marcus Luttrell, the author,is a part of a four man team in Afghanistan that goes out to do a reconnaissance mission.They were moving to find a high ranking Al Qaeda leader that had been seen in their area of operations. They were moving towards their objective through the mountains when they came to stop and take some cover for the day. While waiting for the cover of night again a few goat herders happened upon their position and saw them. The team captured them and talked about what to do with the goat herders since they had compromised theteam’smission.After some deliberation the team could not decide on a solution. The team leader
While Billy was still with his group traveling behind enemy line, a shooting occur, four shot was fired at Billy’s group. “The third was for the [Billy]”, it missed so “Billy stood there politely, giving the marksman another chance.”(33) Billy is giving a shooter another shot because he felt bad for the shoot. The war scar Billy so much that it had strip away Billy’s will to give and left sourless in a field of death.Also when Billy have been captured and sent into a concentration camp, a place filled with dying Russian, he was given a new coat to keep warm. The coat he got "had a fur collar and a lining of crimson silk, and had appartently been made for an impresario about as big as an organ-grinder’s monkey”(90) And he worn pretty dress though the camp filled with the dead and dying. Again it shows the confusion of the war that has taken away Billy’s sense and strip away who Billy is.
These soldiers killed innocent civilians but these soldiers when they killed these innocent unarmed civilians were thinking in terms of war and not in terms of right or wrong. Like the characters in War and “Hurt Locker” the soldiers in My Lai became so adapt to war that war became the natural thought process. These soldiers thought that they were killing hundreds of Viet Cong that killed some of their own soldiers with mines but they were wrong. The soldiers forced these people into a ditch at the edge of their town and started to shoot all the people in the ditch. This is not something that normal civilians would do this is something that only a society that war has become its natural state would do.
For the Khmer Rouge had a slogan that went “To spare you is no profit, to destroy you is no loss.” Now that the Cambodians were contained in the countryside, the Khmer Rouge started separating children from their parents and sending them to labor camps. Pol Pot had a theory that anybody that was an intellectual, educated, or simply just knew another language had to be murder because he feared a revolt against them. So many teachers, doctors, lawyers, scientists, engineers and other professionals were killed together along with their
Ryan was forced to respond to them and launched an investigation. Jim Jones wanting to end the interference by the government, granted the congressman permission to visit Jonestown and on November 17, 1978 he did. Because living conditions for the members of People’s Temple were deteriorating, Congressman Ryan was approached during the investigation by a few members of the now recognized cult, requesting to take them back to the United States, a request he agreed to. At an isolated airstrip on the 18th, gunmen from Jonestown ambushed Congressman Ryan's party. Leo J. Ryan and four others were killed immediately, some of the Ryan party escaped into the jungle.