The early life, Christopher “Chris” Scott kyle was born on April 8, 1974, in Odessa, TX, to Deby and Wayne Kyle (Wayne was was a church deacon). Chris and his brother, jeff, had grown up on a ranch and went to Midlothian High School. Wayne had always taught Chris and Jeff to never start any fights, but chris always seemed to finish them. Chris was very interested in outdoor activities like baseball, football, hunting, and bull riding. Chris had even gotten into professional bull riding, “unfortunately this did not last too long after a bad injury left pins in his arm” (“Chris Kyle Navy SEAL Early Years”). Since Chris could no longer be a professional bull rider he went looking around for something new and exciting. …show more content…
Chris had signed up to join, but was later turned down because of the pins that was in his arm “as fate had it, they called him back sometime later and offered him to try out for BUDS which is the basic schooling/course before SEALS” (“Chris Kyle Navy SEAL”). Chris had an extremely difficult time while he was trying out in BUDS training as Chris had stated in his autobiography “at one stage I wanted to ring the bell so I could go home but couldn't have been bothered walking all the way to the bell to ring it, so I stuck with it” (The American Sniper) he almost did not finish training. After his training Chris was assigned to SEAL Team