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Nicholas Irving, known across the Ranger battalions as “The Reaper,” was one of the deadliest snipers the U.S. Army ever produced. Through the glass of his SR-25 rifle, lovingly nicknamed “Dirty Diana”, he ended insurgent after insurgent with cold, surgical precision. In a single deployment he racked up dozens of confirmed kills, a number that climbed faster than most snipers manage in an entire career. To the men on the ground with him, he was a guardian angel perched on a rooftop & to the enemy, he was a ghost they never saw coming. But every trigger pull left a mark that bullets never could. The faces stayed with him. The sounds replayed on loop. When he finally came home, the war didn’t end. It just changed battlefields. Nightmares, rage, alcohol & suicidal thoughts. He fought them all with no spotter, no cover, no clear target. The same steady hands that once held a rifle at 800 yards now shook when he tried to hold his own life together. Then, in 2016, his son was born. That tiny heartbeat gave him something the battlefield never did. A reason that outweighed the pain. He got sober. He started talking, really talking about what he’d seen & what it had done to him. He wrote books, spoke to veterans, mentored younger troops carrying the same invisible wounds. He turned the same relentless focus that once tracked targets across Iraqi rooftops into rebuilding himself, one day at a time. Nicholas Irving learned that real courage isn’t always measured in kills or medals. Sometimes it’s measured in the quiet, brutal fight to get out of bed, to stay alive & to become the man your Child believes you already are. The Reaper didn’t die in war. He chose to live afterwards & that took more guts than any shot he ever took. ❤️

2StefanMoore's tweet photo. Nicholas Irving, known across the Ranger battalions as “The Reaper,” was one of the deadliest snipers the U.S. Army ever produced.

Through the glass of his SR-25 rifle, lovingly nicknamed “Dirty Diana”, he ended insurgent after insurgent with cold, surgical precision. In a single deployment he racked up dozens of confirmed kills, a number that climbed faster than most snipers manage in an entire career. To the men on the ground with him, he was a guardian angel perched on a rooftop & to the enemy, he was a ghost they never saw coming.

But every trigger pull left a mark that bullets never could. The faces stayed with him. The sounds replayed on loop. When he finally came home, the war didn’t end. It just changed battlefields. Nightmares, rage, alcohol & suicidal thoughts. He fought them all with no spotter, no cover, no clear target. The same steady hands that once held a rifle at 800 yards now shook when he tried to hold his own life together.

Then, in 2016, his son was born.

That tiny heartbeat gave him something the battlefield never did. A reason that outweighed the pain. He got sober. He started talking, really talking about what he’d seen & what it had done to him. He wrote books, spoke to veterans, mentored younger troops carrying the same invisible wounds. He turned the same relentless focus that once tracked targets across Iraqi rooftops into rebuilding himself, one day at a time.

Nicholas Irving learned that real courage isn’t always measured in kills or medals. Sometimes it’s measured in the quiet, brutal fight to get out of bed, to stay alive & to become the man your Child believes you already are.

The Reaper didn’t die in war. He chose to live afterwards & that took more guts than any shot he ever took. ❤️

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9 months ago

Put the USA team in a room and make them watch Miracle over and over.

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9 months ago

And the shit show continues.

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