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 ...
BIGGEST MILITARY BASE IN THE WORLD
Named after a US Civil War general, Fort Hood has a 60-year history of military use and is home to thousands of soldiers.
The vast site in Texas covers an area of more than 200,000 acres (340 square miles) and is the only post in the United States capable of stationing and training two armoured divisions.
Set in rolling, semi-arid terrain, Fort Hood is located near Killeen.
There are 4,929 active duty officers and 45,414 enlisted army members based there.
A further 17,954 family members live on site.
Numerous sections are based at Fort Hood including cavalry divisions, air support operations, engineer brigades, artillery and surveillance.
Fort Hood was named after Confederate General John Bell Hood, who was regarded as an outstanding leader, gaining recognition during the Civil War as the commander of Hood’s Texas Brigade.
The original site was selected in 1941, and construction of South Camp Hood began in 1942.
It was designated as Fort Hood, a permanent installation, in 1951.
North Camp Hood, located 17 miles to the north, was established shortly after the first land acquisition and was formerly a US Airforce base.
Both the airfield and the base were run by the air force from 1947 to 1952.
From 1952, the facilities were run by the US Army under the Defence Atomic Support Agency until they became part of Fort Hood in 1969.
Lovin the heart of this American hero more and more...
God bless our real heroes. The men and women who recognized the threat and rose to the occasion to save lives with no regard to their own well being.
Thank you more than you can know.
They are trained to react like this....and despite personal danger, family, friends, and liberals, they manage to do so.
She is without a doubt courageous, a credit to her uniform, well trained, and a professional. Just like the majority of police officers.
I for one know for absolute certainty that I do not possess the skills nor have the courage of these superb people.
HERO and PATRIOT MOTHER of TWO!!!!!
She answered the call a lot more honorably than “some” donut eaters. She could have just made herself scarce.
The “women don’t belong in combat” crowd has been rather quiet for the past couple of days . . .
Meanwhile two civilian police officers who had been directing traffic on the base respond to the 911 call. Sgt Kim Munley, the mother of a three-year-old girl, and her colleague Sgt Mark Todd arrive as Hasan leaves the building, still firing. The officers chase him around it, exchanging shots. Then Hasan begins to fumble with his gun.
"He's reloading," someone screams. The two officers open fire, downing Hasan with four swift shots - at least two of them from Sgt Munley's 9-millimeter Beretta. She is also felled, by two bullets that struck each thigh and a further one that hits her wrist.
It will be interesting to see how this heroine is honored or dismissed by the White House, the media and Congress.
By the way, why did it have to fall to a civilian cop to defend enlisted troops? Why are the cobbler’s children going barefoot, so to speak?
So I see no black folks among those killed. Does this mean the perp was a racist? Blacks are 12% of the general population. Should be at least one in there. Where’s Al Sharptoon?
And I consider myself a news-junkie.
What a sad commentary on the media of our day.
The British press is very often better than ours. The Daily Mail is a daily read for me.
If I were Obama, I’d be a bit embarrassed that troops had to call the cops. George W. Bush wouldn’t have tolerated that at all. Hello, if this does not teach us that even in innocent looking situations (waiting to be seen at a clinic) our troops are sitting ducks for terrorism, what will?
Why are civilian police directing traffic on a base? Isn't it 'private property' or were they off duty? Or was it traffic entering the base?
God bless this fine woman!
As an aside, is it just me or do you notice that more and more we can get better news reporting over seas than with our own MSM?
That may have been an early account, before officials started putting out details. Many media outlets have quoted Ft. Hood commander Lt. Ge. Bob Cob as saying that Munley fired all 4 of the shots that hit Hasan. Not clear if the Todd didn’t actually fire at all, or if he just didn’t actually hit Hasan.
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/dpg-kimberly-munley-shot-gunman-dc-fc-200911061257529851442
If Todd didn’t hit the target, he’s probably man enough not to want equal billing with his female partner who did.
In the scumbag nations that this cowardly murderer considers models of social control and religious truth, this woman would have been the victim of an “honor killing” for daring to become a police officer.
The irony is beautiful.
I noticed from the link that once again it is a UK source that we have to get the news we want to see from the media within our own borders.
These “civilian” police are employed by the Department of the Army.
It’s true. The MSM in the USA (except for Fox) has a dog in the domestic political fight that the Brits don’t. What you don’t report says as much as what you do.
Crouching for cover these soldiers try to understand what is going on during the shooting. The soldier in the centre can be seen talking on his mobile phone
So who are those guys in the last pic in post #1 out in the open in that field??
“The “women don’t belong in combat” crowd has been rather quiet for the past couple of days . . .”
SNORT!
Women don't belong in combat. Period.
That it no way takes away from the courage shown by this woman.
Real men should be protecting women, not putting them in positions of danger. The real men on that base should have been armed as a matter of course - all of them.
These nutcases running around know that most people are no longer carrying. That's a significant problem that needs to be corrected.
Because, unless the Army is different than the Air Force (and I don't think it is) nobody but Security Forces is allowed to carry firearms on base, unless they are in a pretty tightly controlled training situation...i.e., they would have been nowhere near this mess.
I got flamed big time yesterday for pointing out how much higher the death toll was at Ft. Hood than in the 1998 high school cafeteria shooting by Kip Kinkel (two killed), who was stopped by several (obviously unarmed) high school boys. There were an estimated 300-400 students in the cafeteria when Kinkel burst in and started shooting. And actually only one fatality was in the cafeteria — the other was immediately prior, as Kinkel shot somebody in the parking lot as he was going into the cafeteria.
I’m not trying to pin blame on the soldiers at Ft. Hood, but the length of time this went on without the shooter being stopped is worrisome (at least 3 minutes before Munley and Todd arrived, and 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, about to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan from this “soldier Readiness Center”. Facing a 300 to 1 ratio, Hasan really should have been neutralized a lot faster.
Not that it matters though. Whether she was alone or with her partner, she laid her life on the line and helped stop the terrorist.
No, the liberal propaganda wars were being borne out even then by our alphabet networks.
In hindsight, somebody should obviously have been assigned to “pack.” It sure doesn’t look like Hasan had any trouble bringing his guns in.
Hasan only shot people because he never accepted Barack H. Obama as his personal savior. (mmm, mmm, mmm) /sarc>
Prayers for the families. Waterboard Hasan.
I tend to agree with you.
Indeed. The “no guns” rule (except while training with them) doesn’t make a whole lot more sense on a military base than on the streets of Washington DC. Those who weren’t going to shoot anybody anyway follow it scrupulously, and the homicidal criminals not only blithely ignore the rule, but also take advantage of it.
Why don't we strip Hasan of his citizenship, and deport him.
And oh, by the way -- *THIS* is why the fuss over the birth certificate is legitimate.
Cheers!
Deport him to where? He was born in Virginia.
Guns KILL. /DU mode>
And you know what? I don't care about Al Sharpton. The issue of black-white race relations doesn't have to be injected into every issue in America. This one's tense enough without trying to pour kerosene on the fire.
Wood chipper.
Interesting. This is the first mention that there was another cop who shot Hasan that I've seen.
Couldn’t agree more, politicket. I also admire your non-PC stand. I’m sick to death of PC speech and attitudes. You are absolutely right! In some situations, God does raise up a woman to stand in the gap (Queen Esther, Deborah, and women like this officer). But men are programmed to protect, and to try to emasculate them by taking away means of protection sometimes results in situations like this. I get a lot of glee imagining what the stupid ragheaded terrorist thinks about an infidel FEMALE bringing him down!
Only 11 pictures shown here.
I heard an on-site soldier say that he thought at first that it was a drill. He was convinced it wasn’t only when he saw blood dripping from a friend. I wonder how much training they get about attacks from WITHIN the ranks? I’m sure they were focused on Afghanistan and Iraq and the hazards there. This was totally off their radar. I guess it would be tantamount to sitting in church and having a parishoner stand up and open fire. Might take a second or two to comprehend the situation.
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