In the rush to push Iraqi soldiers through their training, some current and former Australian Army snipers were exposed to extremely high levels of damaging blast overpressure that have caused ...

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He tells Business Insider how elite marksmen in the unit are trained for combat and describes the longest shot he took as a sniper in Afghanistan. He discusses his deployments to Iraq and ...

Jay Dorleus, an Iraq War veteran, looks at how the Iraq War is portrayed in movies and TV shows. He looks at the realism of sniper battles in Clint Eastwood's "American Sniper" (2014), starring ...

Decades later, Morton still reads about one novel per week. His own novel, “Valhalla Boys: Marine Recon Sniper in Iraq,” is a memoir, in which Morton reflects on his service time during the ...

I have long believed the Iraq War was one of the worst foreign-policy blunders in U.S. history. Watching “American Sniper,” Kyle seemed to me as much a victim of the horrible decision to ...