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Fort Hood officers, hailed as heroes, losing jobs
News-Journal ^ | 8/09/11

Posted on 08/18/2011 10:26:13 PM PDT by Libloather

Fort Hood officers, hailed as heroes, losing jobs
Updated: 7:38 am, Tue Aug 9, 2011.

FORT HOOD — The two Fort Hood police officers celebrated as heroes for responding first to the 2009 shooting massacre at this Army post were told recently they would lose their jobs as part of broader military budget cuts.

Kimberly Munley and Mark Todd, who is credited with taking down suspected shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan, have both left Fort Hood in advance of the end of their jobs. Fort Hood officials said other civilian police officers on the post who were hired on a year-to-year basis will likewise not see their employment renewed.

“We all hold Fort Hood in our hearts and never thought we would be facing cutbacks,” said Munley, who has taken an unpaid leave of absence.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: forthood; jobs; officers

The Hussein tingle only lasts so long.

1 posted on 08/18/2011 10:26:17 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Gotta make way for the expected influx of fairy cops.


2 posted on 08/18/2011 10:30:27 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Americans need to wean their government off of its dependence on foreign money.)
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To: Libloather

I’d say that’s a good thing. It shows that govt. is finally trying to save some money.


3 posted on 08/18/2011 10:52:56 PM PDT by Sporke (USS-Iowa BB-61)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The Army is switching to mostly military police. AFAIK, at least at Hood, it hasn’t been all MPs in a good long time, if ever in the post Vietnam period. But there were more before 2001 than there are now. The husband of a former coworker at Hood retired from the Army as the top enlisted MP at Hood. He then went to college locally, as did she, and they got jobs with different contractors on post. He contracted cancer and passed away a few years ago. She, and I, got laid off at the end of the year. She was hired by another contractor to do much the same work, but that may not last either. It’s possible the whole command we supported may be moving elsewhere, and if so, she won’t go, being too rooted locally. I’ve not been able to obtain a new position, in spite spending at least 2-3 hours daily on the pursuit thereof.

I was in the same hospital as the female officer pictured, when I had my knees replaced last summer. She barely made it, having nearly bled out while waiting for transport and on the way to the hospital. They thought she wasn’t that badly injured. We had at least one of the same physical therapists. He only told me that he had treated her, the rest comes from local news stories.


4 posted on 08/18/2011 10:54:42 PM PDT by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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To: Libloather
According to the pretrial testimony, Todd’s actions outside the soldier readiness processing center probably saved more lives. Investigators said Hasan had 177 unspent cartridges on him when he was gunned down.

Don’t call him a terrorist though.

Good luck in your future employment our heroes.

5 posted on 08/18/2011 10:58:00 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Libloather

San Fran Nan was overheard saying, “Hang in there America. The smart people are making progress for the small peoples. We will all be gloriously equal with the ghetto soon! And everyone will live happily ever after in the American dream. I proooomise. You can trust meeeee.” ;)


6 posted on 08/18/2011 11:02:12 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Libloather

They took down Maj. Hasan, and they are only losing their jobs. The Seals, OTOH....


7 posted on 08/18/2011 11:04:02 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: Libloather

Never let a good deed go unpunished...


8 posted on 08/18/2011 11:46:41 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Libloather

Did they become politically inconvenient? Shooting a rampaging Moose?


9 posted on 08/19/2011 12:11:05 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: Libloather

Sure does suck.

Of course, if they CHOSE to be used as props for Hussein, despite his hatred of the military, then I don’t feel sorry for them one bit.

If they were ORDERED to go along with the charade that Hussein gives a **** about their service, then I feel truly bad.

I guess we’ll never know.


10 posted on 08/19/2011 2:16:18 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Anthony Burgess, the author of “A Clockwork Orange” wrote a better book called “The Wanting Seed” which envisions precisely the scenario you’re discussing. It would be considered hate literature today.


11 posted on 08/19/2011 3:54:12 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: Libloather

Not Moslem enough, are they?

Too ‘white’, are they?


12 posted on 08/19/2011 3:57:23 AM PDT by Diogenesis (No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain)
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Too ‘white’, are they?

Officer Todd, as you can see in the picture is Black, much blacker than either The Won or the Wife of The One.

13 posted on 08/19/2011 10:19:31 PM PDT by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato

=> They are too American, and pro-America,
for the unAmerican pRes_ _ent.


14 posted on 08/20/2011 4:01:56 AM PDT by Diogenesis (No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain)
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They are too American, and pro-America, for the unAmerican pRes_ _ent.

They are indeed. But then so are most of us who raised our right hand and swore to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic".. with having the fingers of our left hand crossed.

15 posted on 08/20/2011 7:13:13 PM PDT by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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