American Sniper objective summary #2

In the second section of "American Sniper", Chris details the first action he got in Iraq against Iraqi militants in a oil facility. He tell about how their vehicles got stuck in mud the second they drove them off the Chinooks ramp. "'We're stuck!' said our crew chief. 'Yeah, we're stuck too,' said the Lieutenant. 'We're stuck,' said somebody else." (76) Also their scare with what they thought was a mortar shell that distributed chlorine gas, but turned out to just be some smoke coming from a dud. "White smoke started pouring out of the hole where the projectile had landed.'Gas!' yelled someone." (78) Chis goes on to tell about how he went to SEAL sniper school and the training and weapons he used. Once he graduated from sniper school, he was volunteered to be the a navigator by his CO, a position that at firs he worried that it would mean less action for him. Until later he got a message that the GROM (polish spec ops) needed snipers and navigators, so the navigator training ended up helping get into the fight faster. Chris gets a head start over the rest of his unit by operating in Iraq with the polish, but soon gets called back to fight in Fallujah with the Marines. He is sent to Fallujah to provide overwatch for the Marines tasked with clearing the slum like city of Insurgents, but soon finds that he is much more effective on the ground, so he borrows an M-16 and starts leading the Marines in their task of clearing each and every building. Fallujah held good times and bad times for Chris and the Marines. They enjoyed eating Thanksgiving dinner on the roof of a building in between firefights, and laughed as insurgents tried to cross a river on giant beach balls. But Chris makes clear what he'll remember most about his time in Fallujah is when a young Marine died on top of him when the two fell while Chris was carrying him out of a battle ridden alleyway.