Shooting rampage at Fort Hood

[mariomike]

Firstly like many one here, my thoughts are with the mates of those who have been murdered and wounded.

In hind sight, when there are issues with a soldier's train of thought, these should be followed up instead of just being noted. By the sound of things, there was alarm bells going off, but no one really did anything, and now 12 patriots have been gunned down, and murdered in cold blood.

He is not the first US 'muslim' soldier who has turned on his own citizens, putting his own 'faith' before his own country.

Some links for one this year who murdered 5 US soldiers in Iraq http://muslihoon.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/us-soldier-working-as-imam-on-iraqi-base-kills-five-us-soldiers/ 

and one from 2005 in Kuwait

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article386812.ece

Todays cowardly attack is pathetic, and I hope US courts make an example out of this Maj Hasam.

OWDU

EDITed only for spelling

What Wes said.

 

[tomahawk6]

Major Hasan had not filed any complaints with the Army about harassment. He appears to have been radicalized at the mosque he attended in Silver Springs Maryland. Hasan is paralyzed and on a ventilator. I can only hope that he doesnt survive. The female security cop that shot him is going to pull through,she is a real hero. Some of those wounded may have been from "friendly fire".

 

[dapaterson]

Interesting blog post from a solider deployed to Iraq, having an IM conversation with his wife at Fort Hood:

Around, midnight, local Iraq time, which was about 2 pm central time, I was just finishing up a late night at work when I decided to call my wife. But the phone didn't ring; I got a busy signal. So I tried email. My wife was already online.

Angela: We are on lock down, baby
me: What?
Angela: We have shooters
me: Lock Down?
Angela: on post schools and
Angela: on post schools and everyone
yea
multipule shooters on
me: according to who?
Angela: Clear Creek
The sirens
They're saying to lock all doors and windows
...
Angela: Soldiers?
Who is doing it?
me: They're not saying
Angela: ugh
me: This is ridiculous
I'm in the war zone
not you!
Angela: I know!
Now, I think I have an inkling of an idea of what it's like to be at home while your loved one is in a dangerous combat zone. Here I am in Iraq, worried my wife and son are in danger in their own backyard.

http://acitizensoldier.blogspot.com/2009/11/fort-hood-shootings.html

 

[old medic]

http://www.kdhnews.com/news/story.aspx?s=36920

27 wounded still hospitalized  Posted On: Friday, Nov. 6 2009 10:34 AM Central

Answers are unfolding into the tragic events that lead to the death of 12 soldiers, 1 civilian and 30 wounded victims.

An early morning press conference at Fort Hood has answered some questions with regard to the mass shooting yesterday that claimed the life of 13 people and wounded 30 others.

Army officials say the suspect, "the lone shooter" for this tragic incident, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, is currently on a ventilator at a nearby civilian hospital and the police officer who gunned him down, Kimberly Munley, a civilian Fort Hood police officer, is in stable condition.

Blood donors are still needed at Scott and White hospital and officials say the 10 wounded that are currently still at that hospital are out of surgery.

Dr. W. Roy Smythe spoke at a press conference this morning, saying that two or three of those wounded in yesterday's tragedy may require further surgery but most injuries were dealt with yesterday.

Smythe said they treated patients with gunshot wounds to the head, neck, chest, stomach and extremities. Some victims, he said, had multiple gunshot wounds.

Smythe said one patient told him he was shocked when a man, "jumped on a desk and started shooting."

Col. Steven Braverman, Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center commander, said 90 percent of the families of victims have been notified thus far. All of the wounded are in stable condition.

All victims were sent yesterday to Darnall and three other community hospitals. There were 12 soldiers and one civilian among the casualties.

Braverman said Hasan was a psychiatrist who took care of soldiers with behavioral health problems. "We're not aware of any problems he had at Fort Hood," Braverman said this morning. He had no job performance problems at Darnall that are known at this time, he added.

Hasan had been given orders for to deploy to Afghanistan.

Investigators are at the scene of the incident now, trying to piece together information, including how Hasan got weapons on post -- both were personal weapons.

There are 200 behavioral health specialists on post now from the 85th CSC, Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio and Fort Hood's own 1st Medical Brigade.

AT 11 a.m., Gen. George Casey, chief of staff, and the new secretary of the Army John M. McHugh are expected to be at Fort Hood.

Congressman John Carter, R-Roundrock, is on the way to Fort Hood and is expected to arrive in Killeen by late morning. The Congressman plans to meet with Army officials to be briefed on the latest findings in the shootings investigation, and to determine what steps can be taken to help comfort the wounded and the families of those who lost their lives in yesterday's tragedy.

 

[old medic]

http://www.kdhnews.com/news/story.aspx?s=36899

By Victor O'Brien
Killeen Daily Herald

Bell County SWAT teams barricaded and evacuated a downtown Killeen apartment complex where Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan lived before authorities say he killed 13 people and injured 30 more during a massacre at Fort Hood Thursday.

Temple police secured Hasan's residence at Casa Del Norte apartment complex on N. Fourth St. around 3:30 p.m. Thursday.

A Killeen police SWAT team converged on the apartment in the evening and blocked the apartment complex with the department's armored vehicle. Officers flanked the vehicle and roamed the streets, while they waited for Fort Hood investigators to arrive and process the scene.

In the morning, neighbors said Hasan handed Qurans and donated his furniture to anyone who would take it.

Neighbors described Hasan as a quiet man who began wearing "Arabic clothing" in recent weeks. Edward Windsor, a neighbor, never suspected Hasan was in the Army. Hasan's rank surprised Windsor who would never have imagined an officer with a rank of major would have lived in an apartment that rents for $350 and houses soldiers ranked as private first class.

"For his rank structure, it'd be highly unlikely for him to live here," Windsor said.

 

[old medic]

http://www.kdhnews.com/news/story.aspx?s=36922

From the mouth of an emergency room doctor 
Posted On: Friday, Nov. 6 2009 10:46 AM Central

By Amanda Kim Stairrett
Killeen Daily Herald

FORT HOOD -- More than half of the victims who were taken to Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center for care sustained multiple gunshot wounds, said Maj. Stephen Beckwith, Emergency Services director and emergency room doctor.

"There were a lot of rounds fired," he said. All of those who received care at Darnall were shot, he added.

Darnall's emergency room has 16 beds and at one point Thursday, all of them were full, Beckwith said. There were always enough beds for the victims because the staff worked quick.

All but two existing patients in the emergency room were moved to other parts of the hospital to accommodate the gunshot victims.

Fort Hood has 40 EMS personnel, Beckwith, and when he first got the call, he sent his chief paramedic to the scene, which they knew was not secure at the time.
Some of the victims taken to Darnall did die, Beckwith said.

Fifteen had critical wounds -- gunshots to the head, chest and abdomen -- and were kept at Darnall, though four with those wounds were MEDEVACed from the scene at the Soldier Readiness Processing site to Scott & White hospital, Beckwith said. Ten to 15 had injuries to their extremities.

Several of the victims were taken to Darnall for initial treatment and then transported to other hospitals.
Most of the victims were "very lucid, very with it," Beckwith said.

Beckwith has served a 15-month tour in Iraq and said Thursday's shooting was "obviously frustrating." When soldiers are in Iraq, they are in the mindset and prepared for things like that to happen.

"It's tragic to see these things happen on post," he added.

 

[old medic]

Certainly appears the the Wisconsin mental health unit got hit hard.


Mother-speaks-about-Kiel-woman-killed-at-Fort-Hood

Herald Times Reporter  ( Manitowoc, Wisconsin)
http://www.htrnews.com/article/20091106/MAN0101/91106036/1357/MAN01/UPDATE-10-54-a.m.--Mother-speaks-about-Kiel-woman-killed-at-Fort-Hood

KIEL — A 1998 Kiel High School graduate, Amy Krueger, is among those killed at Fort Hood, Texas, the victim's mother said Friday.

Krueger, a sergeant with the Madison-based 467th Medical Detachment, died in the shooting that left 11 other people dead and about 30 injured, including Random Lake native Amber Bahr, who was shot in the back.

Krueger had arrived at Fort Hood on Tuesday and was scheduled to be deployed to Afghanistan in December, Jeri Krueger said.

Jeri Krueger said she tried many times to reach her daughter on Thursday but was unsuccessful.

Officers arrived at 2 a.m. Friday to tell Jeri Krueger her daughter had been killed.

"Why this way," Jeri Krueger said Friday. "Not that anyway's good, but my gosh...."

Jeri Krueger said she was not shocked to see officers.

She said she last spoke with her daughter after she arrived at the Texas military base on Tuesday.

"She called to tell me she made it safe," Jeri Krueger said, and they always said "I love you" before hanging up the phone. She said she last saw her daughter about a month ago.

Amy Krueger joined the Army shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, Jeri Krueger said. She told her daughter she could not take on Bin Laden by herself.

"Watch me," was Amy Krueger's response.

"You got straight talk from Amy," Jeri Krueger said.

Jeri Krueger has two other children, ages 23 and 20. She spoke with a good friend of her 23-year-old daughter, Nicole Gilbertson, on Friday morning.

"I can't even imagine what you're going through," Gilbertson told Jeri Krueger.

"Nobody know's what to say," Jeri Krueger responded. "And that's all right."

Her family contacted Kiel High School this morning and told them the news. Dario Talerico, the school's principal, has informed students and staff at the school of the news.

Other members of Krueger's family went to Kiel High School, but Talerico wasn't immediately sure how many.

Wisconsin State Journal;
Update|10:33 a.m: Grant Moxon, who graduated from Lodi High School in 2004 and UW-La Crosse in 2008 was among those injured in Thursday's shooting at Fort Hood.

"I got a text message from him yesterday," Moxon's father, Dave Moxon, said Friday morning.

He said the text read: "This is Grant, I got shot in the leg. I'll be OK."

The text wasn't from Grant Moxon's phone, because it was "lost in the uproar," Dave Moxon said.

Grant Moxon, 23, is a mental health specialist with the Army Reserve and has a psychology degree from UW-La Crosse.

"I was looking this guy right in the eye, he wasn't even 15 feet away," Dave Moxon said Grant told him about the shooter.

"He hit the floor and played dead," he said. "A bunch of them made a break for it and ran out of the building."

"I can't believe I didn't get hit in the head," Dave Moxon said his son told him.

"We feel very fortunate," Dave Moxon said. "Relative to the overall scope of what happened, this is on the minor side."

By COLIN FLY

Associated Press

A military spokesman has praised the heroics of a Wisconsin soldier who helped other soldiers injured in the Fort Hood shooting before tending to her own wounds.

Lt. Gen. Bob Cone told NBC's "Today" show Friday that 19-year-old Amber Bahr of Random Lake helped apply a tourniquet to an injured soldier. He said Bahr then attended to other soldiers before realizing she'd been shot.

Bahr was one of 30 soldiers injured in the shooting at the Texas Army post Thursday, which left 13 dead. Her family was originally told Bahr had been shot in the stomach, but Bahr later told them she'd been shot in the back.

Her mother said it's a big relief to hear Bahr is OK.

 

[leroi]

Condolences to all ....  :'(

I think, this was an inexcusable act of jihad--nothing more-nothing less--T6 nailed it when he said the guy was radicalized.

Take up the enemies insufferable training manuals and read them page by bloody page, then you see that the tentacles of evil fatwas distort the true meaning of Islam into a violent radical, human-hating hybrid exhorting followers to do whatever violent act they're able to manage, whether small or large, to hurt the west--a perverse, cancerous ideology that metastasizes everywhere with a long twisted reach that no civilized nation can afford to treat lightly. :rage:

I hope America will stand strong.

Prayers to the Fallen and their families and friends; speedy recovery to the wounded.

 

[old medic]

Soldier from Minn. wounded at Fort Hood
From the Pioneer Press - Minneapolis Minn.
copy at: http://www.twincities.com/ci_13729377?nclick_check=1

A 21-year-old soldier from the Twin Cities area was among those wounded by a gunman Thursday at Fort Hood, Tex., her family has said.

Army Reserve Spc. Keara Bono was on the phone with her husband when the shooting began, her family told the Kansas City Star. She was shot in the back and has abrasions to her face.

Bono lives in Otsego, Minn., according to her MySpace page.

She wrote on her Facebook page this morning that she is OK.

"I'm strong," she wrote. "Keep praying."

Brother Dustin Bono told the Kansas City Star that his sister appeared to be fine and was "mad more than anything." She was scheduled to be in Iraq on Dec. 7.

Torkleson wrote on his Facebook page this morning "support your troops not just today but everyday," adding that it was sad that it takes an event like to realize American soldiers are dying "everyday for our freedom."

http://www.kansascity.com/842/story/1551829.html


Bolingbrook Soldier Killed In Ft. Hood Massacre
Huffington Post
First Posted: 11- 6-09 09:56 AM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/06/michael-pearson-fort-hood_n_348326.html

A local soldier was among the 13 Americans killed Thursday in the shooting spree at Ft. Hood Army base in Texas.

Private first class Michael Pearson, 21, of Bolingbrook was reportedly shot three times -- in the spine and the chest -- when a gunman entered the Soldiers Readiness Processing Center and opened fire with two handguns.

Surgeons worked desperately to save Pearson, even bringing him back to life twice on the operating table, but he had lost too much blood and died around 10 p.m., according to a Chicago Breaking News report.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/tweeting-treating-wounded-fort-hood/story?id=9012537

Salvatore "Rico" Sanchez, a preventive dentistry specialist, was treating a patient at Fort Hood's Soldier Readiness Processing Center Thursday afternoon when he heard screams. He thought it was rowdy co-workers at first. Then he saw a man enter the building with blood on his uniform.

Nearby, a graduation was unfolding for soldiers who had missed their graduation cere
monies. After the shots rang out, everyone was herded into the processing center for shelter.

The clinic was soon filled with wounded men and women, some in uniform, others in cap and gown.

"There was blood everywhere," Sanchez told ABC News Thursday. "There was a lot of confusion."

He and others sprang into action, attending to the wounded, fetching water and gauze and, most importantly, keeping the victims awake until the paramedics arrived.
The injuries ran from non-life-threatening to near lethal. A 19-year-old female soldier from Milwaukee had been shot in the stomach. Another soldier from Grand Rapids, Mich., had been shot in the arm. An Army reservist from Topeka, Kan., who was at the Texas Army base to work with soldiers suffering from wartime stress, had been shot in the left shoulder.

The man with blood on his uniform had been only a witness to the violence. He told Sanchez that he initially believed the shooter, who was dressed in uniform, was shooting blanks.

"He said that it was only when he saw the blood that he realized what had actually happened," Sanchez said.

There was chaos and confusion everywhere. The building was soon locked down, and a soldier was posted at each door to prevent anyone from entering.

No one was allowed to use a cell phone or text message. When Sanchez had a spare moment, he ran to his computer and sent out some messages on Twitter, where he goes by the name "Rico Rossi." He wanted people to know he was OK, and he wanted to get the news out to the public.

His tweets give an insight into the timeline of when things unfolded and when the lockdowns occurred, calling attention to the slow trickle of information:

"if your OFFPOST right now dont come to base, multiple shootings, several casualties, possible terrorist suspects ... FT HOOD TX"

"a soldier i treated here said he was waiting in line @ SRP [the Soldier Readiness Processing Center] when another soldier stood up and started shooting."

"wow..... umm the entire FORT HOOD just restricted all CELL PHONE usage, unless its govt authorized... twolla @ me yall..."

"GET OUT OF HERE!!!!! there were children in the theatre!!! thank God they're fine!! We have them here in the clinic."

"Army post is a mess right now, lots of traffic ... everyone in a hurry to get off post and pick up their kids or get home to their loved ones"

At midnight, Sanchez described himself as "tired and dehydrated."

With the exception of emergencies, his superiors have ordered that all dental appointments be rescheduled on Friday.

Iowan among injured in Fort Hood rampage
By MELANIE S. WELTE  Associated Press Writer
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-ia-forthood-iowaninj,0,7540339.story

DES MOINES, Iowa -  An Iowa soldier who arrived at Fort Hood in Texas for additional training before being deployed overseas was among the soldiers wounded in a rampage that left 13 people dead, her father said Friday.

Staff Sgt. Joy Clark, 27, of Des Moines, was inside the Soldier Readiness Center on Thursday when the gunfire started, said her father, Jerry Nelson, also of Des Moines.

"They were kind of in a formation type of situation in the center when the gunman came in. There was a soldier in front of her that was shot. She peeled off her jacket to cover this soldier who was bleeding and that's when she was shot," Nelson said.

Nelson, who spoke to his daughter Friday morning, said she was shot in the left forearm.

"The bullet passed through. She has some severe bone damage in her arm," he said.

She was in stable condition and was awaiting surgery, Nelson said.

Nelson said his daughter was married in August, and her husband, Josh Clark, drove from Des Moines to Texas and arrived early Friday. Nelson said his daughter called her husband after the shooting Thursday, and he called her parents immediately.

"It's unbelievable. We were sitting here worried about her presence overseas in a combat area. Jeez," he said. "For the moment, everything is OK. She's stable and it doesn't appear to be a life-threatening injury."

Nelson said he was making arrangements Friday to get to Texas.

 

[old medic]

Soldier's dad: 'I never thought she was going to die here'

November 6, 2009 2:58 PM
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/11/another-ft-hood-shooting-victim-is-from-chicago.html

Juan Guillermo Velez couldn't sleep nights during the months his daughter Francheska was in Iraq disarming bombs.

But the baby of the family had just gotten back to the United States and would be home in Chicago in a few weeks. Finally, he thought, he could relax.

Then Velez got the call last night: His daughter was dead, one of 13 people killed at Fort Hood. Another area soldier, Pfc. Michael Pearson, was also killed.

"I never [slept] because you never know," Velez said. "I never thought she was going to die here."

Velez was three months pregnant, her family said, making the news all the more bitter. She was scheduled to begin maternity leave in Chicago sometime in December.
"She was our baby," Velez said as tears streamed down his cheeks.

His daughter had last been home on her 21st birthday in August, when she surprised her family with a two-week stay before returning to Iraq, her family said. In the service for three years, she'd recently re-enlisted for another three.

"For her to be a soldier was so brave of her," said her cousin, Jennifer Arzuaga, 21. "And I'm so proud of her because she had the heart do it...It's very sad her life was taken away from her."

Velez was thrilled about the pregnancy and had hoped for a boy, according to Sasha Ramos, a fellow soldier and one of her closest friends.

"She would have been a great mom," said Ramos, who was to be the child's godmother. "She loved kids."

Velez wanted to be an psychologist and help soldiers deal the stresses of military life, friends said. It angers Ramos, an Iraq war veteran, that an Army psychiatrist - a position Velez respected and admired - has been accused of taking her life.

"He's somebody she would have saluted," Ramos said as she tried to stifle her sobs. "It's degrading to all soldiers that he did something like that."

A  friend said Velez loved music and loved hanging out with her friends. "She was just your average person who liked being around her friends and family," Judy Cielocha said. "Her family meant a lot."

Cielocha said she will always remember Velez's smile. "It was so bright, you could tell she was happy. She was really looking forward to staying in the military.

"This is horrible."

 

[tomahawk6]

Powerful image at Retreat on the day of the shooting.

A first responder to a lone gunman's attack at Fort Hood Nov. 5 renders honors at retreat after aiding his fellow soldiers. U.S. Army photo

 

[mariomike]

CNN: "Surveillance Video of Hasan Before Fort Hood Shootings:
First video of suspected gunman':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqamMbKs0iE

 

[KevinB]

http://www.gwumc.edu/hspi/old/PTTF_ProceedingsReport_05.19.09.pdf

Look who was on the Obama Homeland Security Policy...

 

[leroi]

http://www.gwumc.edu/hspi/old/PTTF_ProceedingsReport_05.19.09.pdf

Look who was on the Obama Homeland Security Policy...

Good grief ... page 29 everyone ...

Super sleuthing, Infidel-6.

 

[tomahawk6]

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - Pfc. Marquest Smith, on his way to Afghanistan in January, was completing routine paperwork about a bee-sting allergy when the sounds erupted.
A loud, popping noise. Moans. The sudden, urgent shout of "Gun!"

Smith poked his head over the cubicle's partition and saw an extraordinary sight: An Army officer with two guns, firing into the crowded room.

The 21-year-old Fort Worth native quickly grabbed the civilian worker who'd been helping with his paperwork and forced her under the desk. He lay low for several minutes, waiting for the shooter to run out of ammunition and wishing he, too, had a gun.

After the shooter stopped to reload, Smith made a run for it. Pushing two other soldiers in front of him, he made it out of the Soldier Readiness Processing center—only to plunge into the building twice more to help the wounded.

Smith had survived the worst mass shooting on an American military base, a rampage that left 13 dead and 30 wounded, including the alleged shooter, Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.

It could have been much worse, but for the heroics of Smith and others—like the 19-year-old private who ignored her own wounds, and the diminutive civilian police officer who single-handedly took down Hasan.

"Unfortunately over the past eight years, our Army has been no stranger to tragedy," said a somber Gen. George Casey, Army chief of staff. "But we are an Army that draws strength from adversity. And hearing the stories of courage and heroism that I heard today makes me proud to be the leader of this great Army."

___

Home of the 1st Cavalry and 1st Army Division West, Fort Hood has seen more than its share of deployments and casualties in the past eight years.

As a psychiatrist, Hasan, 39, had listened to soldiers' tales of horror. Now, the American-born Muslim was facing imminent deployment to Afghanistan. In recent days, Hasan had been saying goodbye to friends. He had given away many of his possessions, including copies of the Holy Quran.

At 2:37 a.m. Thursday and again around 5, Hasan called neighbor Willie Bell. Bell could normally hear Hasan's morning prayers through the thin apartment walls, but Hasan skipped the ritual Thursday.

Bell didn't pick up either time, but Hasan left a message.

"Nice knowing you, old friend," Hasan said. "I'm going to miss you."

About an hour later, surveillance cameras at a 7-Eleven across from the base captured images of a smiling Hasan, dressed in a long white garment and white kufi prayer cap, buying his usual breakfast—coffee and a hash brown.

At the processing center on the southern edge of the 100,000-acre base, soldiers returning from overseas mingled with colleagues filling out forms and undergoing medical tests in preparation for deployment.

Around 1:30 p.m., witnesses say a man later identified as Hasan jumped up on a desk and shouted the words "Allahu Akbar!"—Arabic for "God is great!" He was armed with two pistols, one a semiautomatic capable of firing up to 20 rounds without reloading.

Packed into cubicles with 5-foot-high dividers, the 300 unarmed soldiers were sitting ducks. Those who weren't hit by direct fire were struck by rounds ricocheting off the desks and tile floor.

When he decided that Hasan wasn't close to being out of ammo, Smith made a dash for the door. He'd made it outside when he heard cries from within.

"I don't want to die."

"This really hurts."

"Help me get out of here."

Smith rushed back inside and found two wounded. He grabbed them by their collars and dragged them outside.

His second time through the door, he ran into the shooter, whose back was to him. Smith turned and fled, bullets whizzing by his head and hitting the walls as he rushed outside.

Around this time, Fort Hood Police Sgt. Kimberly Munley got the call of "shots fired." The SRP isn't on Munley's beat; she was in the area because her vehicle was in the shop.

Munley, 34, was on the scene within three minutes.

Just over 5 feet tall, Munley is an advanced firearms instructor and civilian member of Fort Hood's special reaction team. She had trained on "active shooter" scenarios after the April 2007 mass shooting at Virginia Tech University. She didn't wait for backup.

As she approached the squat, rectangular building, a soldier emerged from a door with a gunman in pursuit. The officer fired, and the uniformed shooter wheeled and charged.

Munley was hit at least three times in the exchange—twice through the left leg and once in her right wrist. Hasan was hit four times.

From the first shots to the last, authorities say the whole incident lasted less than 10 minutes.

___

Pfc. Jeffrey Pearsall, 21, from Houston, was waiting outside in the parking lot for Smith. He was talking to his brother on a cell phone when a group of soldiers ran out the door and a window shattered.

It was only then that he heard the gunshots.

He pulled his pickup truck forward, then hopped out and helped the wounded into the bed. He loaded as many as he could and sped off to the base hospital.

Next door, at the Howze Theater, Spc. Elliot Valdez was filming a graduation ceremony for soldiers who'd completed correspondence courses. Several proud scholars were posing for a group shot when Valdez heard a pounding at the side door.

The door burst open and the theater filled with shouts of "Medic!" and "Stay in the building!" A combat videographer who returned from a 15-month Iraq tour in January, most of it in the notorious Sadr City slums, Valdez ran out into the sunlight.

Crouching as he continued to roll tape, Valdez could see windows broken by fleeing victims. A soldier in his Class A dress uniform lay on the grass, a gunshot wound in his back. Soldiers in flowing black graduation robes and purple sashes rushed to help.

Pfc. Amber Bahr, 19, of Random Lake, Wis., tore up her blouse and used it as a tourniquet on a wounded comrade. It was only later that she realized she'd been shot in the back, the bullet exiting her abdomen.

Sgt. Andrew Hagerman, a military police officer, was patrolling a housing area when word of shootings crackled over his radio.

As he arrived at the processing center, bloodied soldiers, some shirtless, were already treating each other on the grass outside, ripping pant legs off and tying off wounds. Munley—with whom Hagerman had exchanged small talk on patrols—was being loaded into an ambulance.

Hasan lay on the ground, his two handguns beside him, as medical personnel struggled to remove his handcuffs to treat his wounds.

Hagerman entered the building, took a deep breath and asked himself: "What do I need to do?"

He picked his way around the room's edges, careful not to step in pools of blood or to kick any spent shell casings. He had seen death during his two tours in Iraq, but nothing that compared with this.

In the confusion, Army Reserve Spc. Grant Moxon, 23, lost his cell phone. He borrowed a comrade's phone to send a text to his family in Lodi, Wis.

The message stated simply: "Grant. I was shot in the leg. I'll be OK."

Sgt. Howard Appleby, 31, was at the hospital for his regular meeting with a psychiatrist. Appleby, who was born in Jamaica and grew up in New York City, sustained a traumatic brain injury and has post-traumatic stress disorder from a roadside bomb blast during a tour in Iraq.

His appointment canceled, Appleby found himself pulling the dead and wounded from ambulances. In combat, he was used to one or two casualties a day. "This," he thought, "is crazy."

Lt. Col. Larry Masullo, an emergency room physician from Farmingdale, N.Y., was heading into a monthly meeting to review new doctors' credentials when he heard of the shootings.

"Yeah, OK," he said. "Multiple gunshot wounds. Is this a drill?"

In the next hour and a half, he would treat nearly two dozen soldiers.

For several hours, authorities feared there were several gunmen. By the end of the day, it was clear Hasan had acted alone, they said.

___

Hasan, hooked up to a ventilator, was moved Friday to a military hospital in San Antonio. The woman who stopped him, Munley, awaited surgery Friday to remove the bullets from her leg. Her husband was flying in from Fort Bragg, N.C.

Her boss, Chuck Medley, was thankful. "If an officer had to be close by to respond," he said, "Kim Munley is someone we'd want to be there."

Marquest Smith says some of the people he helped made it. But he knows others did not.

Afterward, Smith noticed a hole in heel of his right combat boot. A bullet had entered the boot, but he had somehow escaped injury—at least the physical kind.

After the adrenaline wore off, Smith was overwhelmed by a sense of betrayal, because this assailant who spilled so much blood was a soldier.

"We're supposed to be a family," he said.

 

[vonGarvin]

In case people can't see it:

Nidal Hasan  Uniformed Services University School of Medicine

Just wow.

 

[KevinB]

detective work was not mine -

  I'm thinking that Kim Munley's husband may have been more of a help in her shooting and combat focus. 

Army police officer Kimberly Munley arrived at the scene of Thursday’s shooting about seven minutes after it began, the head of Fort Hood’s emergency service said today.

Munley was outside the Soldier Readiness Center building when the shooter, who officials say is Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, emerged from the building gun in hand, said Chuck Medley, the director of emergency services at Fort Hood.

Hasan ran toward Munley, firing at her, Medley said. Munley returned fire with her pistol, hitting him.

Munley was shot in both legs and one wrist but is expected to make a full recovery, Medley said. He did not know how many times she was shot.

Hasan was shot four times, officials have said. He is reportedly in stable condition at an undisclosed hospital.

Medley said he visited Munley, 35, in the hospital early this morning and she was in good spirits.

“She’s got some surgeries (ahead) but she’s stable,” he said. “She’s the most upbeat injured person I’ve met.”

He said the military is flying her husband, who is stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., to see her soon.

 

[vonGarvin]

"She returned fire".  Wow, after being hit, how many times?  That, my friends, is warrior spirit, and proof, once and for all, that it's not just for men. 

I don't know how I would have reacted in such a situation, armed or not.  She reacted, by putting lead on the target. 




Lord only knows how many lives she saved.

 

[Jarnhamar]

What kinda handguns are they using?

On TV their saying the handgun used was SO powerful that law enforcement call it the cop killer.

 

[mariomike]

What kinda handguns are they using?
On TV their saying the handgun used was SO powerful that law enforcement call it the cop killer.

http://www.opposingviews.com/articles/news-fort-hood-shooter-used-cop-killer-armor-piercing-handgun-r-1257543702

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"Fort Hood Shooter Got “Terror War” Medal: One awkward aspect of the official military record of Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, the accused Fort Hood shooter, is the fact that he was decorated with something called the “Global War on Terrorism Service Medal.”":
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2009/11/06/ft-hood-shooter-got-terror-war-medal.aspx

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"What Nidal Hasan said about suicide bombers:Internet posting that purports to come from the Muslim Army doctor who killed 13 people at Texas base":
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6905976.ece

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"Hasan Called War on Terror ‘War Against Islam,’ Classmate Says: “He was very vocal about the war, very upfront about being a Muslim first and an American second,” said Finnell, 41, a preventive medicine doctor in Los Angeles, in an interview today. “He was always concerned that Muslims in the military were being persecuted.” :
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a0OrWS8lBtNg&pos=8