Nicholas Irving

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Nicholas Irving
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Irving during the "Defensive shoot" event during the ninth annual U.S. Army International Sniper Competition
Born (1986-11-28) November 28, 1986 (age 38)
Augsburg, West Germany
(present-day Germany)
AllegianceUnited States
Service / branch United States Army
Years of service2004–10
Rank Sergeant
Unit 75th Ranger Regiment
Battles / wars Iraq War
War in Afghanistan

Nicholas Irving (born November 28, 1986) is an American author and former soldier. He was a special operations sniper in the 3rd Ranger Battalion for the U.S. Army. [1]

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Early life

Nicholas Irving was born on November 28, 1986, in Augsburg, Germany. His parents were both enlisted soldiers. [2] [3]

Career

Military

Irving originally intended to join the Navy SEALs, but he failed a colorblindness test. He instead joined the United States Army Rangers and served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was issued a SR-25 rifle, which he nicknamed Dirty Diana. With that rifle he has 33 confirmed kills. [2] [4]

Entertainment

After the Army, Irving pursued an entertainment career.[ citation needed ]

In 2016, Irving was one of four military leaders to serve as coaches on the reality show American Grit with John Cena. [5] [6] [7]

Starting in August 2017, Irving began appearing as a recurring guest on the popular firearm YouTube channel, Demolition Ranch. He has also made appearances on other YouTube channels such as, LunkersTV and Insider.[ citation needed ]

He also served as an on-set advisor for Doug Liman's 2017 sniper film The Wall .[ citation needed ]

Author

In 2015, he wrote and published with Gary Brozek The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers, a New York Times bestseller about his military career during the War on Terror. [8] [9] [10] On February 2, 2015, The Weinstein Company acquired the television rights to make a miniseries out of the autobiography. [11] On March 5, 2015, NBC picked up the miniseries from Weinstein. [12] In late 2017 Irving revealed in a podcast that the miniseries has been scrapped, but a movie based on the book was in preproduction. [13]

Personal life

Irving married Jessica Irving in 2007. [1] [2]

Bibliography

Nonfiction
Fiction

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  2. 1 2 3 Smith, Kyle (January 18, 2015). "How an Army Rangers sniper became 'The Reaper'". New York Post . News Corp . Retrieved April 27, 2016.
  3. ↑ Connelly, Sherryl (January 24, 2015). "NY Daily News: 'The Reaper' is gripping autobiography of sniper who killed record 33 Taliban in Afghanistan deployment". Daily News . New York. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
  4. ↑ Bucktin, Christopher (January 18, 2015). "The Reaper: US sniper Nick Irving killed 33 enemies in under four months with gun called 'Dirty Diana'". Daily Mirror . Retrieved April 27, 2016.
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  9. 1 2 Irving, Nicholas; Brozek, Gary (2015). The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers. New York City: St. Martin's Press. ISBN   978-1250045447.
  10. 1 2 "The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers". Publishers Weekly . Retrieved April 27, 2016.
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  13. ↑ SOFREP Radio podcast, episode 296, his statement at 36:50-37:30
  14. ↑ "Nicholas Irving". Goodreads. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  15. ↑ Team Reaper: 33 Kills...4 months. Seattle, Washington: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. 2012. ISBN   978-1470022839.
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  20. ↑ Irving, Nicholas. "Reaper: Threat Zero". Macmillan Publishers. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
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