Posted on 11/07/2009 9:24:57 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Sgt. Kimberly Munley, 34, a civilian Department of Defense police officer at the base, is credited with stopping the firing rampage of U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan at the Soldier Readiness Center within a few minutes after he launched his attack.
Munley, described by neighbor Brooke Beato, as "very petite, with long blonde hair and a strong personality," was credited by base officials with preventing further carnage by aggressively engaging Hasan as he shot at her. She rounded a corner, took aim at Hasan and brought him down, officials said. "It was an amazing and an aggressive performance by this police officer," base commander Lt. Gen. Robert Cone said. It also was a tactic straight out of recent lessons learned from the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, when first responders waited for additional backup before engaging the shooter.
"She walked up and engaged him," said Lt. Gen. Cone told Associated Press. As a member of the base Special Reaction Team, Munley had learned that "if you act aggressively to take out a shooter, you will have less fatalities," Cone said.
Base officials said she wishes she could have acted even faster and saved more lives, and she spent Thursday evening calling friends and colleagues, expressing those regrets.
While Thursday's shooting sent a shockwave through the tight-knit Killeen community, Beato, whose husband is an Army captain, said she was not surprised when Munley's name surfaced as the police officer who ended the shooting. "It was just like her — she carries herself with confidence," Beato said.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Who is Kimberly Munley? A true American hero.
And so begins the smear campaign...they can’t help but hate her.
Note the adjectives they use...confident, aggressive, strong personality. They are angling to make the meek fear her kind.
I don't see anything here that's a smear. Just straightforward reporting on who she is.
I can hear it now: She fired at and shot him because she is prejudiced against Muslims and so it is a Hate Crime.
Yep. they’re digging into her past as we write for anything anything at all that will denigrate her.
The left will slime her and state she just wanted to hunt muzzies.
Keep watching. If they haven’t turned her into a bad guy by next weekend, I’ll accede...
DoD owes her big time. Right now they should be calculating in the Pentagon how to substantially reward her for her service. And I’m not talking about a medal. More like promotion fast track, cream job assignments, high paying civilian job if she is disabled, golden VIP ticket, etc. Really make an example of her.
Put the word out that she is now “family”, so she and her family get the red carpet when they visit military installations in the future.
The military knows how to be sweet when they want to be.
They did add a link to their article which explains (excuses and blames) the assassin’s plight.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1936085,00.html
This was included in the online article. While not a direct smear campaign it is the usual “redirect and blame America” insertion.
I sense an upcoming CAIR lawsuit against this woman.
You can’t let this kind of Islamophobia go unpunished. :)
/sarcasm
You sound like you know of which you speak. :-)
The military has to host VIPs all the time, across a scale of VIPs from local community leaders to displaced foreign heads whose treatment will set foreign policy between their country and the US for two decades to come.
But these are all “outsiders” that are part of its job. When an “insider”, someone who is “family” gets the VIP treatment, such as a war hero MoH recipient, there is a whole other mood. A lot warmer.
As an odd example, WWII German General Erwin Rommel was very respected by allied forces, both professionally and personally. His son, Manfred Rommel, was Lord Mayor of Stuttgart, where was located the HQ of US VII Corps, from 1974 until his retirement in 1996.
Manfred Rommel was “family” to the US Army. He worked tirelessly to make Stuttgart a friendly host for more than a dozen US posts, for countless thousands of US soldiers.
And once a year, at Christmas, he would host a formal dinner for a few of the top US privates, as selected by their Command Sergeants Major. The privates would be practiced for months ahead of time until their etiquette was perfect. This was an extremely high honor to be offered, by the son of the closest thing to “military royalty”.
Conversely, almost anything that Manfred Rommel ever requested would be delivered without question. Of course being someone of considerable means, there was very little the US Army could offer that he could not obtain elsewhere.
Across the board, however, the military is always playing host to somebody from somewhere. The only difference is in degree.
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. I had never heard of this policy before.
While there are lots of VIP policies, a lot of it is ad hoc as well. That is, motivated personnel can really set the tone. Some staff officer will hear that a VIP is coming through, and unlike most, will know who it is, and that they are important, like a MoH recipient.
So he riles up others to put on a proper greeting. Using the example of a MoH recipient, again, they would get the word around who it was and what they did. NCOs would want to get involved as well, to stimulate their subordinates that here is an *important* person, that they must show respect to them.
Civilians get into the act as well. Both contract employees and family members will want to meet and greet such a person, which needs to be done in an orderly way. The post club system would get a heads up, for lead time to prepare a good meal for VIP and others, as well as an open bar.
It can, and often does, snowball. Once, at Fort Hood, ironically enough, word came down that two important congressmen were headed to the post. Within a short time, two maneuver battalions with artillery and air force support were ready to put on a live fire demo. Waiting at the grandstand was a ranking general and his staff, ready to launch the show, when up drove a late model Buick.
Two Texas State legislators, not congressmen, much to their amazement and appreciation, got a 20 million dollar show put on for them, and the general got to snarl at his staff about unconfirmed rumors.
I will mention that there are benefits to taking care of VIPs. I was once at a post when a MoH recipient showed up, and there was a big jump in morale for a month after. He was cajoled into giving a well practiced “there I was” speech to a SRO auditorium audience, and there was an outpouring of respect and gratitude from all of the assembled.
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