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American train-attack heroes tell how they foiled gunman...after he sliced off one of their thumbs
Daily Mail ^ | 23 August 2015 | Nick Fagge

Posted on 08/24/2015 8:14:43 AM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy

A heroic US airman told tonight for the first time how he and his childhood friends brought down a gunman intent on massacring the passengers of the Amsterdam to Paris express train.

Spencer Stone revealed how he woke from a deep sleep to see a man holding an assault rifle and that it 'looked like it was jammed and it wasn't working'.

Speaking for the first time about his crucial role in thwarting the terrorist attack in northern France in Friday he said the trio decided they had to 'do something or die'.


(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: americanheros; france; terror; threadhijack; usaf
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To: CrazyIvan

“ I wonder how many gay men would have risen to the challenge?”

I sit by one with a choir who has a Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and one leg.””

Queers are not masculine males. You have been around very few if you think that. Most queers that enter the military do so in pursuit of other young males that they are allowed to live in close quarters with.


21 posted on 08/24/2015 9:18:30 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: FreedomStar3028
Probably more than you would think.
Agree. I'm not even sure what kind of perverted obsession brought this question to mind.
22 posted on 08/24/2015 9:22:31 AM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (ANYBODY who would choose Trump over Cruz has a screw loose.)
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To: Neoliberalnot
We all need schooling on situational awareness. It's the sudden shock of the attack that freezes everyone into becoming a victim. A pissed off granny with an 18" knitting needle can be just as dangerous as her attackers once situational awareness sets in.

Recent military training keeps you "fresh". So does local martial arts schooling. All of my children begin it at about age six.

I'm not so sure gender, sexuality, age, or other such factors of inaction you mentioned are really as much a factor as government and the state convincing "us" that they will keep us safe. They cannot, and will not.

23 posted on 08/24/2015 9:25:56 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Neoliberalnot

Bravery is a uniquely masculine trait?


24 posted on 08/24/2015 9:27:04 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: FreedomStar3028

Do you pretend to have a sense of humor?


25 posted on 08/24/2015 9:27:21 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

Well, I’m laughing at you. So, yes. I do.


26 posted on 08/24/2015 9:29:36 AM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I decided a long time ago if I was ever in a situation like this I was just going to rush the guy because you're probably going to die anyway. If everybody rushes the guy, the odds change pretty quickly.

I just recently took my annual force protection training. The emphasis used to be to hide and wait out an attack. Now the training says to fight. That's always been my plan. It looks like this Airman took his training seriously.

After subduing the attacker (and nearly losing his own thumb) he gave medial aid to victims. A1C Stone is with the Medical Operations Squadron at Lajes.

Here's one of the slides from this year's training:


27 posted on 08/24/2015 9:38:49 AM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (ANYBODY who would choose Trump over Cruz has a screw loose.)
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To: fireman15
Has FOX faltered and CNN is now stepping into the vacuum?

Fox has always been lousy at actual news reporting, particularly overseas. They don't have the infrastructure (international correspondents and bureaus) or the relationships (foreign news agencies). They're much more of a US political commentary and analysis operation than an actual news operation.

28 posted on 08/24/2015 9:39:37 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: Neoliberalnot
Most queers that enter the military do so in pursuit of other young males that they are allowed to live in close quarters with.

According to whom?

29 posted on 08/24/2015 9:41:12 AM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (ANYBODY who would choose Trump over Cruz has a screw loose.)
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

skyrocketing male on male rape stats since Obama imposed the change.


30 posted on 08/24/2015 9:48:30 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

The point being missed here is that many, many MORE such terrorists are lying in wait.


31 posted on 08/24/2015 9:50:16 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: longtermmemmory

Sounds scientific.


32 posted on 08/24/2015 9:54:22 AM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (ANYBODY who would choose Trump over Cruz has a screw loose.)
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

holding a assault rifle???


33 posted on 08/24/2015 10:03:10 AM PDT by kimtom (USA ; Freedom is not Free)
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To: CrazyIvan

My father, a WWII Army Infantryman, stated that the known homosexuals who went into basic training with them crapped out & did not last through basic. - Daddy’s outfit meant business. They were ready to charge HELL with a bucket of water. Any “gays” who survived that didn’t priss around in a tutu & they did not “hit” on the vast majority of those servicemen. There was absolutely NO time for foolishness in that life or death struggle.


34 posted on 08/24/2015 10:05:18 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: blackdog

So, you don’t think the attacks on male masculinity have occurred since the 1980s have had any effect—recall the song macho man by the band of queers? Have you traveled to Europe of late? Most of the males are disgustingly feminized.


35 posted on 08/24/2015 10:12:30 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: CrazyIvan

It is a warrior mindset and mostly attributed to masculine males. I suggest you review your history.


36 posted on 08/24/2015 10:13:41 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

According to many men in the military. Do you recall how they also infiltrated the Catholic priesthood and the boy scouts too, and the outcome that followed?


37 posted on 08/24/2015 10:15:21 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Gamecock

The threat was fully neutralized.


38 posted on 08/24/2015 10:24:08 AM PDT by lee martell (The sag)
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To: Gamecock
They are military charging a terrorist with an AK-47? Bronze Star with a V device all the way around, IMHO.

Maybe they deserve that, too, but they just received the Legion d'Honneur from the French President, so these guys are not going without some serious recognition.
39 posted on 08/24/2015 10:55:22 AM PDT by fr_freak
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To: LydiaLong
I wonder how many gay men would have risen to the challenge?

Drink!

40 posted on 08/24/2015 11:21:11 AM PDT by T. P. Pole
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