USA admires deadliest hero to kill 2,746 Iraqis

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Special Forces soldier Dillard Johnson has become the most productive soldier in the American army since Vietnam - since 2003 he has killed 2,746 local soldiers and militants in Iraq. As a sniper, he killed 121 Iraqis, and in this indicator he is inferior to the leader - the American Chris Kyle, who shot 160 Iraqis.

A new hero has appeared in the United States - 48-year-old special forces soldier Dillard Johnson. He published a book of memories of the war in Iraq, in which he told about his exploits and the "Predator" unit, in which he was a member.

It turned out that Johnson killed 2,746 opponents in the Iraq war. The accuracy of these calculations is explained by the fact that his commander ordered him to take into account all the killed soldiers and militants with "sticks" in his notebook. The most memorable victims, as the spetsnaz officer writes, were the three Iraqis whom he killed in a knife fight.

And the most significant battle, he recognizes the fight of his unit "Predator" with the Iraqi army, in which a little more than 300 Americans held back the offensive 44 tanks and 20,000 enemy soldiers. In that battle, 3 Americans were killed, the losses of the Iraqi army amounted to about 5 thousand people.

Johnson's path into the army was typical of the people of his circle. He is a country boy from Kentucky. From the age of 6, his father began to accustom him to weapons and take him on a hunt, at the age of 13 he killed his first deer with a rifle. In high school, Johnson is a member of the People's Militia. In 1986, at the age of 21, he enlisted in the army, where he entered the special forces. He arrived in Iraq with his Predator unit in 2003.

Johnson served as a sniper with the Predator. With 121 deaths from his sniper rifle documented, he is inferior to US Army "champion" Marine Chris Kyle, who shot 160 Iraqi soldiers and militants.

Johnson's other casualties were mostly offensive operations by his unit, during which, as he recalls, "Iraqi soldiers fled in panic and we shot them like partridges."

Johnson has 37 military awards, a severe wound in the leg (the bullet was never removed, four children and now - diagnosed with cancer of the lymph nodes, which he seems to be successfully coping with while in a military hospital. Johnson's pension is $ 4,500 (about 140 thousand). rubles), and the American society, having learned about its value, was outraged that the US national hero received such little money.

This story is not so much for the "Guinness Book of Records" as it shows the power of America in wars with underdeveloped countries (the ratio of losses even in land battles, as we can see, is approximately 1: 1500-3000, that is, to completely destroy the 100-thousandth army, only 3-7 thousand US ground forces are required - of course, with the support of modern technology) and the role of such simple guys in it, who from childhood are accustomed to handling weapons and killing.