The Killing School: Inside the World's Deadliest Sniper Program

by Brandon Webb

Every man owes a death. There are no exceptions. —Stephen King,

death isn’t something you cheat or outmaneuver. Death is like the wind: it blows where it wants to blow. You can’t argue with death; you can’t stop it. Best you can do, as any sailor will tell you, is your damnedest to harness it.

Mark Twain. “A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

But one thing we all seem to share in common: a sort of love-hate thing with authority. That is, a deep respect for truly great leadership, and total intolerance for shitty leadership.

Hunting is, more than anything else, the art of the stalk.

If the goal of military training is to prepare you for the hell of war, then there’s really only one way that’s going to work. The training is going to have to be hell, too.

If your environment and circumstances control your attitude, you’re in prison. If you are in control of your thoughts and your attitude, then you’re free.

“Focus only on the solution to the problem—never on the problem itself.”

anyone who really knows an art knows that you don’t know it until you know it in your fingers, flesh, and muscles. Painting by numbers will take you only so far.

They became two lone snipers wielding a “sniper rifle” comprised of an entire fleet of American airpower. Talk about leverage.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. —Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Death is like the wind: it blows where it wants to blow.