Posted on 11/06/2009 3:26:00 PM PST by Saije
Lessons learned from the horrific Virginia Tech shootings in 2007 are credited with averting an even bigger massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, Thursday afternoon when police officer Kimberly Munley confronted the gunman without waiting for backup and took him down with four shots.
Reviews in the aftermath of the shootings at Virginia Tech, where 32 died, found that first responders' decision to be careful and wait for backup probably cost lives as that gunman moved unchecked from classroom to classroom as law enforcement massed outside.
Those findings had found their way to Fort Hood's Special Reaction Team, which had practiced an entirely new protocol for at least a year before Thursday afternoon's rampage here, in which 13 were killed and at least 28 wounded.
"The lesson from Virginia Tech was, don't wait for backup but move to the target and eliminate the shooter," says Chuck Medley, chief of Fort Hood's emergency services. "It requires courage and it requires skill."
The task on Thursday fell to the petite Ms. Munley, a civilian police officer employed by the Army at Fort Hood. Munley had taken part in intensive active-shooter training during the past year.
One of the first responders, she exited her car and entered the building as shots rang out. She rounded a corner, identified the shooter, and fired four times. He returned fire and hit her at least twice in the legs and once in the arm. She underwent surgery Friday but is said to be in good condition. It's unclear how many other responders were present and firing, but Munley's shots are believed to be the ones that stopped the alleged gunman, Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.
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A dear departed friend used to tell me ... "the only people that don't make mistakes are the people who don't do anything!"
Wow! I had heard he had been killed. My mistake. Thats what I get for being busy. Well, thats fine. Now, when he gets better, maybe I can shove a BLT down his worthless throat, BEFORE I pour pig blood on his POS grave. lol.
Pink to this thread and to the article in post 48.
Have to go get ready for the long day ahead but didn’t want you to miss this.
What are you trying to say? Can you be more clear? /sar
I just checked Drudge.....he has not been declared dead. Last night in a presser it was announced he was transferred to a military hospital. Unless I am missing some major news this morning, he is still alive somewhere in a coma on a ventilator, but alive.
I see the FReepers already corrected your assumption, sorry to pile on. I, too, have some ideas for him........like tripping over the electrical cord of his ventilator.
I’m not sure what your post was about. I was referring to the fact that an Armed Citizen can defend himself when the Police aren’t around.
I hope you didn’t think my comment was disparaging brave Police Officers such as yourself.
Stealing shamelessly from a post on Belmont Club:
Bacon bandages, pork chop and/or hot bacon grease enemas, salt pork infusions, and a hospital menu based on pork oysters have been mentioned.
Same training that I’ve received, Animal. As for going to the sound of the shots, the old saying is, ‘you don’t have to like it, you’ve just got to do it.’ I hope I never experience an active shooter situation, but if I do I hope that I exhibit the skill and bravery that this officer did.
Same training that I’ve received, Animal. As for going to the sound of the shots, the old saying is, ‘you don’t have to like it, you’ve just got to do it.’ I hope I never experience an active shooter situation, but if I do I hope that I exhibit the skill and bravery that this officer did.
I’m sure if the situation ever arises, you will do the right thing. It’s why we do what we do contrary to what some think.
You should have answered by asking him who the hell would want to hijack a Muslim airplane, an Amish or a Presbyterian hijacker?
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