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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...
...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...
...Munley, who worked as a police officer for five years in North Carolina (where her father Dennis Barbour once served as mayor of Carolina Beach), is a talented shooter on the Special Reaction Team, which trains for the possibility of events like the Nov. 5 shooting rampage. She is a passionate fan of Twitter, and once news of her actions spread, her followers began to blossom in number - among them country singer Dierks Bentley, who posed for a photo with the petite officer at the fort's annual July Fourth FreedomFest. The photo is posted on her Twitter page, along...
...than he was at its onset. News from the battlefront is equally grim. October saw the highest monthly death toll of U.S. soldiers since the war began, and on Nov. 3 five British soldiers were killed when fired on by an Afghan policeman - it is still unclear if the shooter was a Taliban plant. (See pictures of Afghanistan's dangerous Korengal Valley...
...goal of skeet and trap shooting is to use a shotgun to hit clay pigeons thrown by an automatic thrower. In trap, shooters face a semicircular field and the pigeons are sent away from the shooter straight or angled toward the left or right. In skeet, shooters shift between seven positions on the semicircular field and targets are thrown to cross from a high house and a low house. Skeet is the more challenging...