Posted on 11/08/2009 1:23:45 PM PST by BunnySlippers
The lightly-built police heroine who is credited with halting the Fort Hood massacre almost died at the scene after losing half the blood in her body.
Mother of one Sergeant Kimberley Munley confronted gunman Nidal Malik Hasan and, despite being wounded in both legs, brought him down with four shots.
One of the shots cut an artery in her leg, leaving blood pumping out but she still managed to keep firing before collapsing.
Heroine: Kim Munley, a civilian police officer, is the woman who brought Hasan down by shooting him four times before he could slaughter more people.
Medic Francisco Delaserna applied a tourniquet to Sgt Munley as she drifted in and out of consciousness because of blood loss.
'I cut her trousers oopen, tied a tourniquet around her thigh and stopped the bleeding. But she had already lost a lot of blood,' he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
BIGGEST MILITARY BASE IN THE WORLD
Named after a US Civil War general, Fort Hood has a 60-year history of military use and is home to thousands of soldiers.
The vast site in Texas covers an area of more than 200,000 acres (340 square miles) and is the only post in the United States capable of stationing and training two armoured divisions.
Set in rolling, semi-arid terrain, Fort Hood is located near Killeen.
There are 4,929 active duty officers and 45,414 enlisted army members based there.
A further 17,954 family members live on site.
Numerous sections are based at Fort Hood including cavalry divisions, air support operations, engineer brigades, artillery and surveillance.
Fort Hood was named after Confederate General John Bell Hood, who was regarded as an outstanding leader, gaining recognition during the Civil War as the commander of Hood’s Texas Brigade.
The original site was selected in 1941, and construction of South Camp Hood began in 1942.
It was designated as Fort Hood, a permanent installation, in 1951.
North Camp Hood, located 17 miles to the north, was established shortly after the first land acquisition and was formerly a US Airforce base.
Both the airfield and the base were run by the air force from 1947 to 1952.
From 1952, the facilities were run by the US Army under the Defence Atomic Support Agency until they became part of Fort Hood in 1969.
Lovin the heart of this American hero more and more...
God bless our real heroes. The men and women who recognized the threat and rose to the occasion to save lives with no regard to their own well being.
Thank you more than you can know.
They are trained to react like this....and despite personal danger, family, friends, and liberals, they manage to do so.
She is without a doubt courageous, a credit to her uniform, well trained, and a professional. Just like the majority of police officers.
I for one know for absolute certainty that I do not possess the skills nor have the courage of these superb people.
HERO and PATRIOT MOTHER of TWO!!!!!
She answered the call a lot more honorably than “some” donut eaters. She could have just made herself scarce.
The “women don’t belong in combat” crowd has been rather quiet for the past couple of days . . .
Meanwhile two civilian police officers who had been directing traffic on the base respond to the 911 call. Sgt Kim Munley, the mother of a three-year-old girl, and her colleague Sgt Mark Todd arrive as Hasan leaves the building, still firing. The officers chase him around it, exchanging shots. Then Hasan begins to fumble with his gun.
"He's reloading," someone screams. The two officers open fire, downing Hasan with four swift shots - at least two of them from Sgt Munley's 9-millimeter Beretta. She is also felled, by two bullets that struck each thigh and a further one that hits her wrist.
It will be interesting to see how this heroine is honored or dismissed by the White House, the media and Congress.
By the way, why did it have to fall to a civilian cop to defend enlisted troops? Why are the cobbler’s children going barefoot, so to speak?
So I see no black folks among those killed. Does this mean the perp was a racist? Blacks are 12% of the general population. Should be at least one in there. Where’s Al Sharptoon?
And I consider myself a news-junkie.
What a sad commentary on the media of our day.
The British press is very often better than ours. The Daily Mail is a daily read for me.
If I were Obama, I’d be a bit embarrassed that troops had to call the cops. George W. Bush wouldn’t have tolerated that at all. Hello, if this does not teach us that even in innocent looking situations (waiting to be seen at a clinic) our troops are sitting ducks for terrorism, what will?
Why are civilian police directing traffic on a base? Isn't it 'private property' or were they off duty? Or was it traffic entering the base?
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