Army sergeant has killed 2,746 enemy soldiers and combatants

I wasn’t there, so …

“With 2,746 confirmed kills, Sgt. 1st Class Dillard Johnson is the deadliest American soldier on record — and maybe the most humble.

“In Iraq, he joined Charlie Troop, 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry, going on to hunt bigger game — wiping out a truckload of Iraqis with six high-explosive rounds in March 2003 at the battle of As Samawah, his first KIAs.

“He counted the dead by tallying rifles — and human heads — among the mangled or charred wreckage left behind by the Carnivore.

“In his second tour, in 2005, he took up sniping, logging 121 kills, his longest from 821 yards, a skill that was honed hunting in Kentucky. His total is second only to the late Chris Kyle, the Navy SEAL who had 160 kills.

“After two tours in the second Iraqi war, he took home 37 medals, including a Silver Star and four Purple Hearts. He gives all the credit to his troop — call sign ‘Crazy Horse’ — whose lineage dates back to Gen. George Custer. ‘There’s not another brotherhood like it,’ he said.”

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/humble_hero_an_army_of_one_ccqcXGajsrui0A06YZ978H

From http://ace.mu.nu/


Let’s say SFC Johnson didn’t take any days off during his two tours, and he had no days processing in-country or leaving.

Two tours times 365 days is 730 days. Kills – 2,746 – divided by 730 days equals 3.76 kills a day. But if we put 5 days processing in and 5 days processing out times 2 … 20 days not engaged in shooting. Let’s say another 15 days times two for mid-tour leave, 30 days. Bradley infantry units have downtime for maintenance … Let’s figure 1 day a week, times 52 (only one year, since SFC Johnson was a sniper his second tour.)

Oh, and we have to subtract the sniper kills from the total, which knocks the big number time to 1 year.

So we have 20 days processing in-out; 30 days leave; 52 days maintenance, totaling 102 days. We subtract the 121 sniper kills from the 2,746 total, so that leaves 2,725, in one year, minus 10, minus 15, minus 52 … 288 days, divided into the 2,725 gives us 9.46 kills a day.

Quite a feat.