The government creates heros when the population tires of a war. A sniper is the easiest way to do it because the civilians think its a solo effort. They believe the movies and think there is a man out there alone on the battlefield just yeeting people from the shadows and disappearing into the smoke. Hathcock was a government invention, so was Chris Kyle, Audie Murphy, Alvin York, etc. They all do it. The Russians might be better at it than we are. The Germans were good at it. The British do it, the Canadians do it, everyone does it. You take a guy who looks like the boy next door with a plausible background and you make a hero out of them for the world to see. They are as much victims as anything. They look for people who are morally flexible..I remember reading Hathcock's book about 10 times as a teenager, believed every word of it like the letters were written in red. When I was in my early 20's I stumbled into his now famous series of video interviews, and within a couple of minutes i realized I was listening to a sociopathic narcissist and a liar. It was so blatantly obvious. When you realize the lengths the government will go to to accomplish this shit, it will make you sick. Both Marcus Luttrell and Chris Kyle had admitted that they came back from a deployment and where told they had written a book, and this is what it says. Some of them love the sunshine it brings, and some of them eventually fall apart under the weight of the lie. I expect Luttrell to be suicided any minute now for breaking from the story, while he's also pushing for psychedelics for ptsd treatment. The government and big pharma are probably in a race to see who can get a noose into his closet first. They've probably already written the suicide note. I think there are reasons to believe that Chris Kyle was killed because he was talking too much and messing up the narrative.