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 ...
And an unborn child. (No photo available)
I was in a room where a Sergeant let the slide slip on his .45 without dropping the magazine. It happened while he was "clearing" it to turn into the Arms room. The room itself had about 20 guys in it lining up to turn in machine guns and the like. It was pure luck that nobody was hurt. As it was, the round was dug out of the wall the next day after it had done two ricochets off the floor and another wall.
Part of the Sergeant's punishment was to go around to every squad of every platoon in the battalion and demonstrate the proper way to clear a .45 while pointing it into a barrel of sand that he had to transport himself.
Amen.
Neither do men.
One of the dead was a 55 year old career psychiatric nurse practitioner, - married, mother and grandmother - whose home was Havre de Grace, MD. She volunteered to go to Iraq because she thought she had something good to offer the troops in theater. She had been working at Perry Point Veterans Hospital in Md.
I bet the sadist/inadequate creep Hasan targeted her because she was good at rapport with troops and he was a loooooooser!
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-md.warman08nov08,0,2025969.story
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight bump ...
I agree, I don’t understand this part of the story. It had never made any sense to me.
Kim Munley and Chesley “Sully” Sullenberg should be named Time Magazine’s “Heroes of the Year”!
Outer Mongolia, dead of winter, dressed in shorts and flip flops sounds good to me. Fly over, put a parachute on him(or not) and dump his sorry as* out.
You make a very good point.
Yeah.
I figured the next mohammedan attack on US soil would be at a day care center or kindergarden.
I tend to agree, he does not fit the storyline. Granted he did not get shot but why would that get you written out of news accounts? He was one of the two people there and shooting at the terrorist and must have affected the outcome.
No offense meant, but I saw many of them the next day. The stories often led with the pretty blonde sergeant or the pregnant woman, of course. Then the newlywed.
Sorry. They have already selected 0bama for that honor.
...according to some accounts as long as 10 minutes before Hasan was actually taken down by the armed police officer) raises serious questions about the training they’ve received. These aren’t a bunch of random high school kids; they’re trained soldiers,...
...By the way, why did it have to fall to a civilian cop to defend enlisted troops?...
I've worked on two Air Force bases and one Army base as a civilian contractor so I can only speak of those installations. On those bases the security was actually contracted out to private companies along with a mix of active duty MP personnel. None of the other active duty military personnel were allowed to carry weapons.
Come on, this is 2009, not the dark ages.
That should be: CS general Hood. Still an American-!
No. Not yet.
And yet, some stories have said that they both fired and something like, “authorities won’t know for some time how many times each officer hit Hasan.”
But the way they are reporting it elsewhere as all her, it makes me wonder if he never fired...or realized he had missed.
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