Posted on 11/06/2009 10:01:40 PM PST by Saije
However complete her training or rounded her experience, Sgt. Kimberly Munley may be forgiven if she never expected a scene quite like the one Thursday, when she found herself in a courtyard facing an Army major apparently gone berserk and a body count that would keep rising unless she stopped him.
Two quick shots from her Beretta 9 mm — pop, pop — and now Munley had the attention of the gunman. She had missed. He was angry. Now his Belgian-made 5.7 mm pistol was pointed not at the already wounded soldier he was chasing, but at Munley, a civilian police officer hired to help keep order at the sprawling base.
He charged her, firing rapidly along the way. She returned fire and dropped to the ground to give herself more cover. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who in an inexplicable instant had turned from caregiver to accused mass murderer, was allegedly in the process of killing 13 people and wounding 38 more. He now had Munley in his sights.***
The two fired again, perhaps simultaneously, Medley said. Each was struck. The gunman took a bullet to the upper torso; Munley was hit in her legs and wrists. Both would survive and the carnage had ended.***
Munley was one of two people who shot the gunman, officials said Friday. Little information was available about Senior Sgt. Mark Todd, who also engaged the gunman and shot at him.
Munley, a 5-foot-2 weapons expert, was still on the scene when paramedics rushed Hasan to the hospital...She had only one request for her boss: Bring her husband, Staff Sgt. Matthew Munley — a soldier who recently transferred to Fort Bragg, N.C. — to Fort Hood to see her. The Army agreed, small compensation for a big act.
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We learn she was carrying a 9mm. Who knows what kind of rounds. But I can see why it took 4 hits to get him down.
Who says 9mm doesn’t have stopping power? This well trained female proved shot placement counts.
And crap, I wish she would have emptied the magazine into him after he went down.
Obama’s justice department will no doubt start a hate crimes investigation into this gun nut starting this weekend.
Everybody on FR can explain this so-called "inexplicable instant." Nobody else in the nation has the guts to call it for what it is.
To bad one didn’t hit this bastard in the head.
and she did it well!!
She will become famous.
She is the real deal, I’m looking forward to seeing her interviews.
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who in an inexplicable instant had turned from caregiver to accused mass murderer...
Ah, yes. Inexplicable. Hasan's motive remains a complete, jaw-dropping mystery to his media enablers. Who can possibly fathom why he would do such a thing? Non-combat combat stress, perhaps. Or discriminatory treatment of the poor fellow by narrow-minded, intolerent people.
What else could it possibly be?
The teachable moment here is:
An American Woman Took down one of your tiny zib brethern!
An American Woman Stopped Jihad Nidal!
An American Woman Doesn’t take shit off any two bit, mealy mouthed, American hating muslim.
A Woman, An American Woman, bested your guy.
If she'd been packing this it would of knocked him down in two shots. 9x23mm Spanish Super Star.
Cops and MP carry 9mm FMJ rounds. The bullet is smooth and enclased completely in copper. Required by PC and Geneva Convention. Now if they were allow to carry non PC ammo such as Jacketed Hollow Points (JHP) or Corbon rounds (bullet disintegrate into a wall of sand upon impact, but sand mass continues to travel into the targets body). Both types of rounds will transfer enough energy into the target to knock the person down.
9mm will absolutely kill and placement is key.
I, however, am not interested in testing the efficacy of the bullet.
I Love Officer Kim Munley.
Yeah, I’m tired of the old-timers saying that the .45 is the end all and be all. I the .45 ACP no doubt, though.
Well... I’m one of those that thinks the .45 is a far better stopper than 9mm. Sure, with a 9mm you’ve got 19 shots... but you need every single damn one of them.
But this lady hit her target multiple times and brought the situation to a close. She ran toward the sound of the guns and put herself on the line. I’m beyond impressed. She took hits that would’ve gone to somebody else. She’s what we all hope we might be in such a situation... but she proved it.
Bravo Zulu.
She sent a message to Islamist terrorist cowards: you are right to fear women! They are stronger than you.
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