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...walked up and engaged him," Cone told the Associated Press. As a member of the base's Special Reaction Team, Munley had learned that "if you act aggressively to take out a shooter, you will have less fatalities," Cone said...
Soldiers nursing the mental and emotional scars of war have overwhelmed the central Texas base, the Army's largest. Cases of posttraumatic stress disorder quadrupled from 2005 to 2007, and PTSD affects even those - like Hasan - who haven't gone off to war. "Mental-health issues are a real problem for the Fort Hood population," an Army study concluded last year. "Soldiers don't live in a vacuum," it added, noting that they have "families and friends who are also affected by the trauma the soldiers experience...
...Soon after Munley fired at Hasan, taking him down, she fell, wounded, and police radios quickly sent out an "Officer down" call. Wounded three times in the arm and leg, Munley is in stable condition after undergoing surgery on Friday to repair damage to an artery. Base officials said she wished she could have acted even faster and saved more lives and that she spent Thursday evening calling friends and colleagues, expressing those regrets...
...Sergeant Kimberly Munley, 34, a civilian Department of Defense police officer at the base, is credited with stopping the firing rampage of Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan at the Soldier Readiness Center within a few minutes after he launched his attack. The center is a quick five-minute drive from Munley's home, past the new strip centers and the high school football field along wide Cross Creek Boulevard, but a world away from the horrors inflicted in one of the worst incidents of soldier-on-soldier violence in U.S. Army history. (Read "Stresses at Fort Hood Were Likely Intense...
...Munley, described by neighbor Brooke Beato as "very petite, with long blond hair and a strong personality," was credited by base officials with preventing further carnage by aggressively engaging Hasan as he shot at her. She rounded a corner, took aim at Hasan and brought him down, officials said. "It was an amazing and an aggressive performance by this police officer," base commander Lieut. General Robert Cone said. It was also a tactic straight out of the lessons learned from the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, when first responders waited for additional backup before engaging the shooter...