Posted on 11/06/2009 1:33:18 PM PST by Saije
The Killeen police officer who shot accused Fort Hood gunman Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had undergone rapid response training offered at San Marcos’ ALERRT Center.
Diana Hendricks, director of communication for the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center, said this morning that Sgt. Kimberly Munley had undergone ALERRT’s basic training in February 2008 and, in June of this year, took a breaching class, which is an advanced module.
Munley and her partner were at the scene within three minutes of reports of gunfire Thursday afternoon, Lt. Gen. Bob Cone told The Associated Press. Cone said Munley shot the gunman four times despite being shot herself.
Her condition was described as stable this morning. “It was an amazing and an aggressive performance by this police officer.”
John Curnutt, ALERRT’s director of training, said Killeen police on regular duty as well as those in a special division assigned to security at the base have had access to the specialized training.
The officers who got the training, including Munley, would then train others within their own departments.
Of Killeen, he said, “These guys would contact us pretty regularly about additional training or for us to give them tips. They don’t always have two to three days to do (the training). Sometimes they have to do it in four to six hour blocks — they would have to do whatever they could.”
Curnutt, who said he wasn’t able to follow all the developments as the story unfolded Thursday and Thursday night, says he plans to contact the Killeen PD today.
“Hopefully they can pick their heads up out of the chaos long enough” to talk with him, he said, adding from what he’s heard, “everybody that was available and present responded to this area and tried to mitigate the loss of life”...
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I can see the media making the cop an issue, lest people be allowed to consider the nature of the shooter.
Probably surprised the muslim that an American woman had the nerve to pull a gun on him. One thing about a woman cop that scares the hell out of criminals.......they will shoot.
Nothing to it. Rapid response is when the perp is shooting everyone in sight better engage him as soon as possible.
I see the opportunity for this young lady to write a book on her life and the event at Ft Hood.
I also see her as a motivational guest speaker or if that is not her forte, as an instructor to a lot of police departments.
ALERRT
Awareness to
Liquidate
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Radical
Religious
Terrorists
Has anyone read or heard what she was shooting?
She hit the evil-doer 4 times before he went down.
And what was he shooting?
According to this story she took 5 hits and kept coming.
Sounds like dueling 9mm.
Better yet, let the people who taught her teach others. She is doing exactly what she was born to do.
She hit this nut 4 times and he kept shooting? Apparently she needs a change of ammo.
I want the media to make an issue of this cop. She is a hero. I would rather hear her story than the story of a dirt bag terrorist.
Thank God for Sgt. Munley, and may she recover completely.
The officer, most likely, was equipped with a 9 mm or 40 cal semi auto pistol, which she used in an exemplary manner.
Not necessarily. She may have shot him four times before gravity had a chance to remove him from the sight picture. God bless her. I hope that she fully recovers without lasting injuries.
I read here that he was using 5.7 caliber semiauto.
I have been through the training
Very effective
We don't know the engagement distance.
We do know the jihadi used a 5.7 x 28 mm semi auto pistol, range practiced regularly using hundreds of rounds, and was observed an excellent marksman at 100 yards. The 5.7 can easily be loaded to penetrate body armor, and AP ammo is available to military and police.
There is sufficient evidence to speculate that the officer was seriously outgunned, and engaged at a greater distance than her issue sidearm was ideally effective.
Its not hard when you are doing the right thing...glad she had the training
4 hits and the guy is still shooting? Wow.
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