I actually heard Jessica Lynch deny that she fired a round and that she surrendered quickly. ( she missed a turn) She said it was all administration hype.( DOES OUR GOVERNMENT EVER TELL THE TRUTH?)
Martinez was Hispanic who had served as an Army medic pre 1960 ( he married a blonde German girl). He may have been hyped for that but I really respected him for that day because of his bravery and for the fact he had finished his duties and was going home when he heard the shooting.The Texas Rangers are very elite down there, as you know. They number no more than 150 in the entire state. I have actually been friends with one and they are very respected and dedicated.They do not mess around.
Great discussion. I learned from it. I lived on infield road at the time with 3 guys. We had beers that night at the Tavern on Lamar and I don’t remember anyone smiling. Sad day.
The guys that day all did their job that day, sad that PC drives depictions of the event.
Texas Rangers: I was a Texas police officer back in the late 70’s and we had a female office that was just plain worthless and in a couple of years, moved out of state. . .and eventually back, never doing a career in Texas.
She bounded in and out of Texas and then was recruited in 1994 for the Rangers (female, black, perfect PC match). TO be a Ranger you must have earned a hard-core reputation. . .she had no such reputation, no dedicated and loyal law enforcement career in Texas.
Things is, this female black local police officer was brought on for PC reasons imposed by demoncRAT Ann Richards, not for her savy, bravery, sharp mind, physical abilities. . .and this lowering of Ranger standards was not welcomed by the old guys that earned their place in the Troop. Many resigned over it.
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/27/us/women-rangers-struggle-in-a-macho-bastion.html?pagewanted=all
“But the pace of the diversification left much resentment among old-time rangers, who said deserving white men had been passed over for people with less impressive credentials.” Indeed.
“Things are going to have to change a hell of a lot more in this world before a female can ride into some little Texas town and tell the sheriff, ‘I’m the resident ranger on this case,’ “ the 6-foot-5 Mr. Jackson said in a telephone interview from his home in the high-desert town of Alpine. “I don’t care if she’s 9 foot tall and meaner than a barrelful of snakes. He’s not going to talk to her.””
FACT.
“Ms. Nix, who is black, said in an interview that she would have no comment on an incident last year in which two male rangers were suspended and later placed on agency probation after one of their neighbors picked up a cordless-telephone conversation in which, the neighbor said, the two men referred to her using racist and sexist slurs. Ms. Nix filed no complaint in the incident.
When she was asked if she had confronted either of her colleagues, she said, “We have discussed it, but I won’t go into details.”
According to the guys I know that were there, she “talked” and threatened their careers and they were not allowed to defend themselves. Heck of a “conversation.