This woman is credited with stopping the shooting rampage of Major Nidal Malik Hasan, by shooting
him four times. She was wounded herself, and continued shooting after she was hit.
Quite a gal, is Kimberly Munley:
A police officer and mother of one was hailed a heroine yesterday after it emerged that she almost single handedly ended the massacre at America’s biggest military base.
Kimberly Munley does not look as if she would be much of a match for a heavily armed US soldier on a murderous rampage. But the slightly built 34-year-old civilian officer was first on the scene after Major Nidal Malik Hasan began firing on comrades at Ford Hood in Texas as they prepared to deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq. The 39-year-old psychologist killed 13 and left 31 others with serious injuries.
May she recover quickly and without permanent effect...
This woman is credited with stopping the shooting rampage of Major Nidal Malik Hasan, by shooting him four times. She was wounded herself, and continued shooting after she was hit. Quite a gal, is Kimberly Munley:
My heart and prayers go out to all the victims family and friends.
ReplyDeleteFrom all the news reports it appears this Major is a career military man and that in his current position for less than a year and was not going well. He did not want to be deployed and in fact wanted out of the Army, so he paid back his military student loans and hired an attorney.
The reason may have been that he was being harassed and called names like “camel jockey ”. I guess all that sensitivity training for those with bigotry tendencies are all for not. (Can training real change the way you were brought up?)
Another reason is called PTSD by proxy, the stress of treating PTSD in other soldiers make you go a little crazy yourself. Its even more stressful because most of the higher ranks don’t even believe in such thing as PTSD. Their denial prompts them to tell suffering soldiers to “drink it off.” Some civilians in the defense dept feel the same way no doubt IMO, it’s why hardly anything is mentioned of PTSD until one of these violent episodes occurs. These people see PTSD as a cop-out or an excuse. First we need to have an understanding that PTSD actually is real before we can ever hope to help treat it (does anyone believe that being shot at or killing your fellow man is not going to affect you in some way either then or in the future?). I guess with the high soldier suicide rate before and after deployment kinda takes care of the complaints from coming in (so those who said he should have just killed himself, well that’s already happening ). What real ticked me off when I heard that the military was trying to say that some soldiers coming back from this war with PTSD or other psychological disorders had “Pre-Existing Conditions” and that the military would not pay to treat them, I think it has been corrected but what a bunch of asses they break you and don’t want to pay.
The final issue is why does the military want to keep people in their ranks that no longer want to be there is it just sheer number? I mean is it ten percent, twenty percent. Is it that it is the only contract in the US that you can’t get out of unless to kill yourself or kill your fellow soldiers? It does not make any sense to me.
I guess the Major could just be another wacko like Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nicholas, of course McVeigh was executed and apparently because Nicholas became a Christian he received a life sentenced. I real think if he gets that far the Major will get the former and not in a million years the latter.
This is so messed up, hopefully they will make some changes that make sense.
thank you Kim,you make me proud to be american.god bless you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteTo montana, why is there always someone trying to come up with excuses for a person that does things like this?He is a murdering piece of crap,lots of people have been persecuted way beyond what this guy could have possibly gone through and didn't turn around and kill mass numbers of people.His beef was with the army not with these people he killed that by the way were unarmed so not only is he a murderer he is a coward.
ReplyDeleteits all a conspiracy. The Major was set up for a future polictical movement, "no muslims allowed" is the next military slogan.
ReplyDeleteaniwase, back to earth, someone going on a murderous rampage? and lives? what non-sense, execution on the spot bitches!
Anonymous: I gave what I think are reasons but you say excuses, no skin off my apple. I guess you think he was another Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nicholas, OK with me.
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