She stood ground, even as bullets struck her

Houston Chronicle ^ | 11/6/2009 | GARY SCHARRER

[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.

[SupplySider]

He was executing a religious ritual which he believed would open the gates of heaven for him.

Exactly. Obviously precipitated by his impending overseas duty. He searched his heart, felt he could not fight against his holy warrior brothers, so chose to go to heaven in an orgy of infidel murder.

It's so clear. Kind of frightening that no politician or news media will even raise a question about it.

[444Flyer]

That a woman took down this Islamic madman it poetic justice.

[444Flyer]

it=is

[Wpin]

“A contrast on the roles played by Sgt. Munley and her attacker is instructive.

In the tradition of Mohammedans since the Seventh Century, Nidal Malik Hasan betrayed his oaths as a doctor and an officer in the United States Army. He fired, in the usual cowardly Mohammedan fashion, on people whom he knew to be defenseless. Some of the victims may have been people he knew. All of the victims would have trusted him as an officer and a doctor with their lives.

The policewoman walked directly into gunfire and performed her duty at what is still an unknown cost to herself to protect people she probably did not even know. She was everything her assailant was supposed to be, and was not. It was as direct a confrontation between everything that is good and true and everything that is evil and false as we get to witness in this world.

A moment in Eternity.”

Very well stated, needed repeating.

[SupplySider]

I wish Officer Munley could read your excellent paragraph.

[ReneeLynn]

I thought she was originally from Carolina.

[Airwinger]

Here’s a question, can you C/C on a military base?

[Walvoord]

Anybody know what the range was separating them?

[plinyelder]

IT'LL STOP A RHINO

[Vendome]

She is in Texas now.

[Jeff Gordon]

but as long as her partner isn’t forgotten I’m OK

It sounds like several of the four rounds the terrorist took came from her partner. It seems that her partner (and boss) is staying in the background and letting her have the credit. This is to his credit.

[Carley]

She’s a mom.

Nuff said.

Bless you and yours for all time.

[Rocco DiPippo]

Hollow points are the key to happiness. . .

[FredZarguna]

I agree. By the accounts it's possible that she, or her partner, or both may actually have taken the shooter down in the final analysis. That doesn't detract from the fact that this is clearly a great heart and a courageous spirit. Speaking of which, the caliber of weapon won't matter a whole lot if you don't have the minerals to use it. I'm reminded of a SWAT Team in Binghamton, New York in the Spring who -- tactical weapons and all -- couldn't bestir themselves to enter an immigration processing center until the gunman finally killed himself.

I also agree about the gender angle with the media, but hey, you've got to love the poetic justice of it: Jihadists are all a bunch of juveniles in an arrested state of development, scared to death of women, and their latest "hero" went and got himself pwned by a girl.

Too right.

[FredZarguna]

You know, it’s just an honor to know that you live in a country with people like her, and have a place like FR where people still understand why it matters.

[goldstategop]

He didn't "snap." It was an ambush. He wanted to kill every one on the base and it was only due to a female soldier who had a side arm that Hasan was stopped in time. The brass need to be keelhauled and tossed out for preventing our soldiers from defending their lives. I could never have someone as my commander who kept me from carrying a loaded firearm on duty.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

[PLMerite]

“IT’LL STOP A RHINO”

If I see a rhino with a koran I’ll give you a call. :)

[Sloth]

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who in an inexplicable instant had turned from caregiver to accused mass murderer

*Barf*

[wafflehouse]

A moment in Eternity.

excellent summation

[Freedom2specul8]

“I Love Officer Kim Munley”

Still plannin on that tatoo!? ;-)