Reply #17: St. Munley is a a civilian cop employed by the Army... [View All]

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Sergeant Kimberly Munley, 34, a civilian Department of Defense police officer at the base, is credited with stopping the firing rampage of U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan at the Soldier Readiness Center within a few minutes after he launched his attack.


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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 and member of the base's Special Reaction Team which trains for the possibility of events like Thursday's 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 police officer at the fort's annual July Fourth FreedomFest. The photo is posted on her Twitter page along with a brief biographical quote: "I live a good life ... a hard one, but I go to sleep peacefully at night knowing that I may have made a difference in someone's life."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1936444,00.html#ixzz0WO35xLPh

from: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/11/06/2009-11-06_police_sgt_kimberly_munley_credited_with_ending_fort_hood_gunman_maj_nidal_malik.html