Kimberly Munley stood her ground even as bullets hit her.

[Elphaba]

Fort Hood 'hero' stood ground, even as bullets struck her | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Two quick shots from her Beretta 9 mm — pop, pop — and now Munley had the attention of the gunman. She had missed. He was angry. Now his Belgian-made 5.7 mm pistol was pointed not at the already wounded soldier he was chasing, but at Munley, a civilian police officer hired to help keep order at the sprawling base.

He charged her, firing rapidly along the way. She returned fire and dropped to the ground to give herself more cover. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who in an inexplicable instant had turned from caregiver to accused mass murderer, was allegedly in the process of killing 13 people and wounding 38 more. He now had Munley in his sights.

Hasan “was interested in nothing else but trying to eliminate her as his threat,” said Chuck Medley, head of the Fort Hood police and fire departments, which are civilian operations contracted to the Army.

The two fired again, perhaps simultaneously, Medley said. Each was struck. The gunman took a bullet to the upper torso; Munley was hit in her legs and wrists. Both would survive and the carnage had ended.

“He went down,” Medley said. “She eliminated the threat. She did what she was trained to do.”

And the lives she saved?

“Countless,” he said.

Elphaba

[pam]

She is for sure one amazing lady.

[lestertheemt]

Makes me so very thankful for the men and women that wear the badge!!!

[Loudmouth_Mormon]

Kudos for her. Training + mindset + courage. You can gain the first two with practice and time, but you can't really measure the third until it's tested. And she passed the test.

First and foremost, I hope I'm never similarly tested. But second, if I ever am, I hope to do as well as she did.

LM