Posted on 11/06/2009 12:44:47 PM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Kimberly Munley shown in a photo from her Twitter page.
The civilian police officer credited with stopping the shooting rampage that killed 13 people at Fort Hood is a Carolina Beach native and graduate of Hoggard High
Fort Hood police Sgt. Kimberly Munley and her partner responded within three minutes of reported gunfire Thursday afternoon, Lt. Gen. Bob Cone said Friday morning. Cone said Munley shot the gunman four times despite being shot herself.
“She happened to encounter the gunman. In an exchange of gunfire, she was wounded but managed to wound him four times,” Cone said. “It was an amazing and aggressive performance by this police officer.”
Munley, 34, is the daughter of former Carolina Beach Mayor Dennis Barbour and grew up in Carolina Beach, said her stepmother Wanda Barbour.
Barbour said she and her husband were making plans to travel to Fort Hood, where Munley remained in the hospital Friday morning in stable condition.
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That’s where we vacation. Very nice place.
This woman saved a lot of lives and I pray and pray, that she survives without any long term disability.
I hope the perp. eventually escapes and tries to get to her hospital room.
Impressive shooting under fire!
This story stinks of Jessica Lynch style propaganda by our Army. It makes me sick. If I’m wrong, then all props go out to this officer, but past reporting makes one suspicious.
They’ve started a facebook fan page in her honor. I was the 20th person to sign up...now there’s over 2500 fans.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=171919257479&ref=nf
Let me see if I have this right. Hassan managed using just one of the two handguns he had to kill 13 and wound 30, yet he cannot get more than one round into Sgt. Mundley while she pumps four shots into him. Yet we are asked to believe Hassan acted alone? If he acted alone, why did he not use the second weapon? Did he reload the single weapon four times? It sounds as if he is not the lone shooter we as we are being told by the Federal Bureau of Incompetents.
Best wishes to the courageous Sgt. Kimberly Munley for a speedy and complete recovery.
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Hoggard High class of ‘76 here. I’m so proud of our hero!
I have heard that it’s possible some were hit by friendly fire and not by Hasan.
Shes a hero..no doubt about that..I just cant figure out why she shot him 4 times and he didn’t die? Did she use 9mm ball?
Courage. Real courage.
Thank you.
I forgot the link. Please add this tp the article.
5’4” of girl power!
I hope Sgt. Munley is promoted to Lt. Munley.
She is one tough cop. May she have a quick recovery.
The shooter is going to wish that he had died.
Oh you bet he will
Don’t they have firing squads in the Army?
And one more shot for him, IMHO.
Hassan is a genocidal executioner.Not a mere criminal killer.
This was an act of religious genocide.
She’s not in the army. She’s a policewoman from the local police department.
Then she went right back to the scene and rescued others. Belatedly she realized that she had also been shot and was bleeding profusely. She is currently hospitalized. Her name is Amber Bahr and she is 19 years old.
Military hails 2 heroes from Ft. Hood rampage
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2380054/posts?page=34
She shot him in the Privates??? Seriously, heard that the scumbag Perp is Paralyzed! Can anyone confirm?
Wishing he could receive the typical MUSLIM Punishment!
Beheading via a Dull Sword!
Fox News said drs told them Hasan may well be paralyzed.
I frankly, think there might have been more then one shooter.
Thank you for the confirmation that FOX NEWS had reported that the PERPETRATOR may in fact be Paralyzed! If so, maybe there is Justice for Terrorists!
screw paralysis..I wanted him to die.
He’s gonna cause years of grief for dozens of family members throughout the coming years.
If he were dead it would be somewhat easier for the families to move on instead of having to look at his ugly ass in chains for the next 10 years before he gets the proper sentence.
She’s not in the army. She’s a policewoman from the local police department.
From what I've read, she used to serve.
Three minutes is a LOT of time when someone is shooting unarmed people.
My Army training included an exercise demonstrating the power of ambush. My team of a half dozen ambushers took on two vehicles carrying unprepared soldiers. None of them was even able to return fire and probably none would have survived an actual attack. It is EXACTLY like shooting fish in a barrel.
Our mock attack lasted about fifteen seconds, just long enough to empty a twenty round magazine with aimed fire.
Get a clock with a second hand and see how many times you can say "bang" in three minutes. Even if you allow a full two seconds between shots, that is still 90 shots. You could kill ten, wound forty, and still miss almost half the time.
I think it was a terrorist attack and political correctness rules again and it will never be told.
The guy that lugged the grenade in a tent at war time overseas years ago shows they have infiltrated our military. It was reported years ago that due to GOOD interrogation and manuels being uncovered; the terrorist call handbook cites infiltration everywhere in the U.S. blending in with and being American.
I have not heard this.Thanks.
Texas has the death penalty.
That’s what makes this stink of Jessica Lynch so badly. There were other heroes and all the military and press praises are the females. Fox News and CNN interviewed some of the men that heroically helped out, including the young medic (a man) who actually stopped the arterial bleeding of the policewoman (thus saving her life because nobody could get the bleeding to stop) and administered aid, despite his personal feelings, to the shooter.
Hopefully there will be more names of both men & women who heroically rose to the unfortunate occasion in which they unexpectedly found themselves.
Last night I also heard one military talking head describe that at the time of the first shots, nearby there was a graduation ceremony taking place, and evidentally, ALL the medics instantaeously took off running -- running towards the sounds of the shooting -- their caps & gowns flying in the wind -- he said he will never forget that visual, as all the medics, instantaneously, as one group, all in caps & gowns, took off running, of their own accord.
HOWEVER... the fact is, that the way that the room was set up, and the place where he was standing in relation to the 400 soldiers in the room -- the set up was like, according to someone whom Michael Savage interviewed last night -- it was exactly the equivalent of shooting into a fishbowl.
I was extremely angry that no one in the MSM had described these basic facts to me, as ever since it first was reported, I have been wondering how ONE shooter could take down so many soldiers.
Now I am super angry that our military installations apparently are PC gun-free zones where our troops are at as great a risk on home soil, as overseas.
Mike Savage said that Carter was the first prez responsible for removing weapons from domestic military bases -- but I didn't listen any further, I was too angry....
Or maybe it’s Pat Tillman-style propaganda! Jealous, much?
He FAILED to kill eighty-percent of the people he shot. He took advantage of unarmed people who were evidently indoors at a mass gathering. The typical response to a shooting like this would be to hide behind an object or attempt to use an exit. Neither strategy would diminish the availability of targets to the shooter.
Shooting a gun and hitting a person-sized target at a range of twenty feet is not rocket science. To kill a dozen helpless people in minutes is not that difficult. It was done at Columbine, Virginia Tech, and numerous other places.
The common element is that the potential victims are gathered together in a gun-free-zone. I doubt that this type of attack could occur in Israel. From what I have read, they do not disarm their own innocent people.
Even 13 killed is pretty high for 3 minutes.
You have to factor in adrenaline as well and people moving as well.
I still don't think we are getting the entire story, but it does look like he did accomplish it by himself.
All mass murderers pick out ‘gun free’ zones to target.
Are you under the impression that reloading takes a considerable amount of time?
If you KNOW that you will be reloading, then you arrange things so that the full replacement magazine is in your hand when the gun becomes empty.
When the slide locks back and the gun fails to fire, then you know it is time to reload. You press the magazine release button, dropping the empty magazine to the ground. You insert the loaded magazine and pull back on the slide and release it. Now you're ready to fire again.
Such reloading takes on the order of three or four seconds. Not much delay in a shooting spree that lasted at least 180 seconds.
And to put out that many rounds that quickly and still maintain a high accuracy level does take a high level of proficency.
From another post I received, it seems that he may have been shooting from a height advantage, which would have allowed him to just put rounds into a crowd very calmly since he himself was above the confusion and chaos caused by the shooting.
Definitely semi-automatic, magazine-fed. I'm not real familiar with the one gun mentioned, but it was the object of some controversy because it fires a small, fast bullet, capable of piercing some level of personal-protection vest.
The media made a big deal of this fact at the time the gun was introduced, despite that virtually any rifle fires a round that defeats most vests.
Now, this explains why he was so accurate!
‘In the center of the table was clear-plastic packaging from a Laser Max brand pistol sight. Authorities have said one of the pistols Hasan used in the attack was outfitted with a red-laser sight.’
The witness, who asked not to be identified, said Major Hasan wheeled on Sergeant Munley as she rounded the corner of a building and shot her, putting her on the ground. Then Major Hasan turned his back on her and started putting another magazine into his semiautomatic pistol.
It was at that moment that Senior Sgt. Mark Todd, a veteran police officer, rounded another corner of the building, found Major Hasan fumbling with his weapon and shot him.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/us/12hood.html?_r=1
If I were using a laser sight under those circumstances, I would expect the laser to allow me to shoot more targets in less time. But not necessarily more accurately.
Sargeant Munley was hit in the legs. I doubt that the shooter chose that as the target. She was also hit in the wrist. I attended a class which included a session clearing several rooms. When I shot one of the "bad guy" targets, I hit the gun the bad guy was holding.
The instructor said that this was common as there is a tendency to focus on the weapon. But I should have aimed at and hit the center of mass of the bad guy. That's the most effective way to get the other person to stop shooting at you.
And that was the initial question, I had raised, how could he get so many hits.
Sargeant Munley was hit in the legs. I doubt that the shooter chose that as the target. She was also hit in the wrist. I attended a class which included a session clearing several rooms. When I shot one of the "bad guy" targets, I hit the gun the bad guy was holding.
I doubt that he had time to use the sight when confronted with the police officers.
The instructor said that this was common as there is a tendency to focus on the weapon. But I should have aimed at and hit the center of mass of the bad guy. That's the most effective way to get the other person to stop shooting at you.
No doubt. Hitting the other person first is crucial in a gunfight.
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