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The Annoyed Man wrote:
I guess I didn't remember the numbers correctly.......but that is still a HECK of a lot of UDTs KIA. JW is a worm. He was a worm before Chris Kyle ever joined the SEAL teams. The point I was trying to make before is that I don't think it serves anything to belittle UDT contributions, just because they have been replaced in the public eye by the SEAL teams.

Of the 175 NCDU and UDT men on Omaha beach, 31 where killed and 60 wounded. Their Teammates on Utah Beach faired far better because the beach was considerably less fortified. Four were killed and11 wounded, when an artillery shell landed among one of the teams working to clear the beach. Weeks before the invasion all available Underwater Demolition men were sent from Fort Pierce to England. The largest loss occurred at the landing on Omaha beach, Normandy. Within months of the War’s end, the UDT teams were dispersed. This ended a trying but evolutionary time in the history of Naval Special Warfare.

On 6 June 1944, in the face of great adversity, the NCDUs at Omaha Beach managed to blow eight complete gaps and two partial gaps in the German defenses. The NCDUs suffered 31 killed and 60 wounded, a casualty rate of 52%. Meanwhile, the NCDUs at Utah Beach met less intense enemy fire. They cleared 700 yards of beach in two hours, another 900 yards by the afternoon. Casualties at Utah Beach were significantly lighter with 6 killed and 11 wounded. During Operation OVERLORD, not a single demolitioneer was lost to improper handling of explosives.

b322da wrote:In steps the lamb where lions fear to tread.

I think that it may be somewhat disingenuous of this forum to fairly unanimously consider a decedent's estate to be his "widow," particularly where much, but by no means all, of the financial value of that estate may have come from the sale of what a jury has found to be defamatory material, and with the jury having found that nearly 3/4 of the damages assessed were for unjust enrichment. Furthermore, a real question as to who will pay what, considering that the other defendant, the publisher, apparently had insufficient insurance, is there in between the lines.

I look forward to hearing from someone who, when it happens, can let us know a little more about the ultimate outcome of the lawsuit.

I am taking no position on the merits of the lawsuit. I know only what I read in the OP's cite, which appears to most commentators here to be quite adequate on which to base one's conclusions.

Jim

VMI77 wrote: A lot of stuff went on during Katrina that we'll never know about. I agree that it sounds far fetched, but given the chaos and the undoubtedly covert nature of the operation if it did happen, it seems possible, though unlikely, and I also think it's possible it would escape the news and the deaths written off as violence.

EEllis wrote:

Jim Beaux wrote:The reason for all these negative stories regarding Kyle are from JV's publicists. Publicists operate beneath the surface and feed info to friendly columnists/bloggers to advance the goals of the client.

Thus the reason why we are bombarded daily with pointless articles about no talent celebrities such as the Kardashians.

The ‘unverifiable’ legacy of Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in American history