Kim is of my best friends in dog sport, and owns one of my Mini Schnauzers. When I learned earlier today that she’d been on the scene at Fort Hood, I asked if she’d be willing to write about the experience. In her own words….
I was notified by dispatch that there were several shots fired and potentially several victims. The scene was not safe so we were instructed to “stage” close to the scene. While staging I was approached by a police officer that their was an “officer down!”…I told him I had not gotten a “code 4”, our code that the scene was safe for emergency responders to enter the scene. The officer left and came back again to me to tell me again there was an officer down and needed EMS NOW!
He assured me the scene was safe so we proceeded into the scene. Several bystanders were around and Ft Hood fire dept was already on scene. My partner went to a pt lying on the ground on her side of the ambulance and I approached the officer who had been shot; her gun shot wound was exposed which appeared to be potentially fatal due to the location, a tourniquet was applied prior to my arrival which probably saved her life; she was conscious but appeared very pale and probably in compensated shock at this point due to the massive amount of blood loss I witnessed around her.
I was then summoned to other patients calling for EMS; the next pt I approached was shot in the neck with a arterial bleed…I instructed bystanders to continue to hold pressure to the wound and gave them bandaging material. I triaged several pt’s with potentially life threatening wounds, each worse than the next.
A young man walked up to me and asked if I could help him, I asked him, “where are you shot?”, he told me in the chest…I directed him to go sit in my ambulance and an army medic sat with him and started oxygen and bandaging on him; in the mist of the madness I was trying to determine who would be the first to be transported still waiting on the helicopters to land so I could fly out the worst.
While getting more bandaging material off my ambulance several bystanders carried a soldier to my truck that had been shot in the head, he was conscious and breathing, he kept asking me “am I gonna die?”, I told him I was doing the best I could, knowing from experience his situation appeared bleak.
Behind my ambulance several bystanders were doing CPR on a lady that had obviously been fatally shot, in a mas-cal situation you do “the most good for the most people”…that means save the ones you can and black tag the un-salvageable…it’s a harsh truth but effective in this type of situation.
Since the helicopter was still not there I made the decision to take off and transport these two critical patients to Darnell Army Hosp which was about 4 mi away. I quickly dropped off those patients and headed back to the scene with an ER nurse as well to help. In the meantime, several other ambulances had showed up and others had been transported leaving me with one soldier shot in the shoulder, and deservedly last, the shooter was the last to leave the scene and was flown to a hosp approx 30 mil away since the local hosp’s were overwhelmed at this point.
I consider myself and seasoned and experienced medic but no one can prepare you for a war zone, which is exactly what this was…I felt so helpless trying to help so many with such limited resources. Thank God for all the bystanders, fire dept and community EMS services that came to our aide. Thank you officer Kimberly Munley for being so brave and fearlessly doing your job….
And you too, Kim.
More from telegraph.co.uk
Sergeant Munley, 34, was unconcious after being shot three times by Hasan and was rushed to hospital after she lost so much blood doctors thought she would die.
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Dr Kelly Matlock, who treated Munley in hospital, said: “She opened her eyes and said, ‘Did anybody die?’ That’s what she said.” Sgt Munley has now been told that Hasan killed 13 people and wounded 38 but her actions saved the lives of many others.
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Sgt Munley, a mother of two daughters, is just 5ft 3ins tall, but colleagues described her as a “fireball” and a “tough cookie.” She is a member of Fort Hood’s SWAT team.
Thanks Kate…posted.
Great story. Many lives were lost, but many were saved. Well done.
Kim,
it’s extremely weird for a guy in Dallas to be writing you through a blog in Canada. But if anyone is universally a citizen of North America, with a foot equally in both countries, it’s Kate.
I want to sincerely thank you for your conscientious, courageous, and professional assistance at this terrible site of carnage.
I imagine you saved lives and were a tremendous comfort for the injured and traumatized victims.
I’m very grateful that you were on the scene.
Thanks Kim for doing what you do and thanks Kate for having Kim post her info.
Best regards,
Pat
Wow, all this from someone who was apparently never asked for her “credentials” during a time of crisis , but was allowed to do what she does best in a time of crisis, help others who can’t help themselves.
Was she qualified ? Was she certified ? Did she have malpractice coverage ?? Where were the authorities ??
She seems like one of those people who in the heat of battle……….if allowed to, would have pulled a gun out of her purse (purchased with her own money) and shot the SOB dead at the earliest possible opportunity. ?? I bet she would have said “gun control be damned”.
I hope the government comes and takes her away !!
Wait. Thanks Kim. !!
Those of us who have read your story say “thanks, please keep doing what you do”.
Kimberly Munley may have just fired another “shot heard around the world”. Perhaps this incident will revive the American Spirit that was first established at Concord so long ago. We can only hope that the ‘libs and dems’ will finally see what they have done to “North America” and begin to correct and atone for their mistakes.
I’d fight beside either one of them any day!Looks like I may have to convince one of the granddaughters to name her first born Kim.
These two women epitomize everything about courage and duty,something we seem to be losing at an amazing rate,thanks to PCness/multi-culti and lefturds.
You have to admire these folks. Its a job few could do.
If it ever gets to the point where we forget who the real heroes are in this world, we’re done like toast, and frankly we’re not all that far from that. I’ve had just about enough of the Al Gores and the Barack Obamas and the John Edwards and the Bonos and the Stings and the dancing queens of all descriptions.
The courageous, real-world, modest, non-intellectualizing, non-frivolous, non-dancing, non self-absorbed people like Kate’s friend Kim, and officer Kimberly Munley, are the fundament. In a perfect world, people like Kim Munley would make every wide-awake person heartsick by comparison with the rest. The pointless, frivolous endeavours of those egotistical, self-considered, self-pleasuring remora who endlessly try to turn their moral absence into a sententious lesson for those who are less profoundly self-absorbed should be identified for the damaging force that they are.
One needn’t have seen Fargo to recognize what’s ineffably beautiful about Officer Kim Munley’s face. It should haunt and hurt and ache every wide-awake person who sees it. It’s not a face you could ever fake, no matter how hard you tried. There’s a pointed absence of any kind of lie whatsoever. She’s modest and mortal and courageous, she’s there, she’s present. She embodies the perpetual forefront of those who turn heartsickness into resolve and action.
God bless her. Hopefully we’ll wake up, at some point and realize realize what’s valuable, and what isn’t.
God bless the REAL heroes, as opposed to those who put on a costume for self-pleasuring purposes and then lecture the rest of us.
Horror of serious accidental injury is confronting, but the added horror that these people were killed and injured in their daily, peaceful lives, carrying out their normal daily tasks, and not in a war zone, makes this all the harder to comprehend.
Thank goodness you have been trained to do your job and could put the horror aside until the people were in expert hands in hospitals.
Ditto what Greg in Dallas and Pat said.
My condolences for the dead and wounded caused by this act of terrorism.
I thank God Sergeant Munley is alive and recovering.
Hopefully she will get the Congressional Medal of Honor for her actions and courage.
Hopefully it isn’t sent via the post office.
I’ll bet B Hussein Obama doesn’t want that photo op.
Wow, Kate. I know what it’s like to know people who are in the centre of a violent, bloody attack. My ex is from Baghdad, Iraq. During Gulf War I it was the eiriest of feelings to know that people I knew were having bombs dropped all around them. The thing is, every single one of them wanted the Butcher of Baghdad gone and they were sorely disappointed that Bush I and the allies didn’t go all the way into Baghdad and get the monster. Because my then husband was from Iraq, I was among the few Canadians that knew what was going on during Saddam Hussein’s reign of terror and that’s why I supported both Gulf War I and Dessert Storm. I have a real soft spot in my heart for the American military and the American people – except of course those the ‘libs and dems’ of whom Antenor speaks. And to think there is still three more years of B. Hussein before the yanks can correct course. I wish I could vote in American elections.
You have said very well, what I would wish to say EBD. Thank-you for posting this Kate.
Kate, Thanks for giving us this!
What strikes me most about this terrifyingly real and beautiful account is that amidst the horror spawned by Jihad your friend Kim was able to use her training, rely on her experience, maintain her presence of mind and contain her emotional response in order to play her part in the miracle of Western Civilization.
Her cool-headedness and bravery (along, of course, with that of Officer Munley and all of the bystanders whom she also praises) is the very kind of expression of the Western style of thought and values in action that has brought us to the pinnacle of human achievement. It is not the phony “selflessness” of the progressive left. It is a world removed from the human cog-in-the-machine of communism. And it is from an entirely different universe from the self-surrendered slave of Allah who she so pointedly refers to as “the shooter”.
If only our leaders could summon the courage, intelligence and common sense to meet the threats of creeping socialism and the aggressively expanding Caliphate with such a cool head and clear vision.
I’ve posted it at BotB- Here
“We can only hope that the ‘libs and dems’ will finally see what they have done to “North America” and begin to correct and atone for their mistakes.” (Antenor)
Don’t hold your breath. They passed health “reform” last night, and judging from the smile on Nancy Pelosi’s face, she’s very pleased with what she’s done.
Thank you, Kim, for being there to help and comfort.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6521758/Fort-Hood-shooting-Texas-army-killer-linked-to-September-11-terrorists.html
Thanks Kim. Others on this thread sum up my feelings as well.
Thank you, Kim, and thank you, Kate, for posting this.
Kate, thank you for having Kim post this. There are a lot of sick, twisted people in this world. What keeps it sane is the good people like Kim, who risk their lives to saves others. I can not imagine being at the center of a war zone like that. Very compelling story. My thoughts and prayers go to the victims, family members and rescue workers.
Thanks Kim for the update and for all that you have done for those injured. First responders, risking life and limb, exposing themselves repeatedly to the horrors and tragedies of the world in order to help others are truly exceptional people!
Thank you.
‘Can’t say it better than you, EBD. Ditto.
Thanks, Kate, for posting this.
Thanks, Kim, for being there for the fallen, in such a senseless massacre, the motive about which the authorities are still scratching their heads. WAKE UP, IDIOTS.
Thanks, Kimberly Munley, for running right into the middle of the melee, as you were trained to do (unlike the spineless American “leaders”), for your strength of character, the strength of your convictions, and for being a true hero. Even if Obamanation never acknowledges your bravery, countless other millions do and will.
G*d bless all of the dead and wounded and their families. And G*d bless America. Please G*d, they wake up from their unfortunate slumber under Sandman Obama.
Hasan gave many, many warning signs he was unstable and unreliable and yet no action was taken. One other thinbg how did this guy reach the rank to major when he’d never, at least from what I’ve gleaned, been involved in any combat whatsoever?
Thanks for sharing this Kim … you are clearly one of those people who stand guard while the rest go about their lives. Our civilization will always be in debt to people like you.
And to EBD … perfect!
Thamks for stepping up. When the world turns upside down there are those that step up and there are those that hide. There were a lot of good people step up and you can be proud to be one of them.
The motto for this time of the year is “Lest We Forget” I fear that we already have.
It is people like Kim and Kimberly that remind us that freedom is not just another word and that freedom is not free.
The MSM is really amazing how they fall over backwards to label this guy as mentally ill, or as a nice guy who wouldn’t hurt a fly or as pushed to the brink by soc-called harassment.
The worst was Mark Kelly on Newsworld (or Connect or whatever they call it) interviewing a reporter from Al-Jazeera network who recounted how he felt discriminated against as a Muslim when covering the Iraq war.
Medals aren’t good enough for the sergeant. She deserves a visit from Chuck Norris.
Thanks Kim, for taking the training and being prepared. Being able to to your job under these stressful and panic situations so well is a testament to just doing the right thing when called on.
Well done!!!
Thanks Kate, we need these lifts when things are tough and down!
Wondering where were all the doctors and military police on this “largest U.S. army base in the world”?
at the Mosque for prayers?
I recall saying to a Bosnian-Serb friend of mine when the troubles started there….
“This is happening because you forgot and it will continue until you remember.”
Bump to EDB—now it’s our turn into the breach…
Regretably, I predict we will see more of this sort of thing before we see less. Now is the time of our trial….
LETS ROLL!!!
“at the Mosque for prayers?”
Obama is probably planning on going to the mosque to apologize for the actions of the police woman. After all she jumped to the wrong conclusion just because an Arab looking person was yelling Aloha Snackbar and shooting unarmed people she thought maybe there was something wrong with him and shot him. What she should have done is engaged him in conversation thereby getting to know him. Obviously she is guilty of a hate crime and Obama will point out that this is just another stupid action by law enforcement.
Good job Kim. Thank God for people like you.
Every time something like this happens, where another muslim nut case goes off, and the “moderate” muslims do not speak up against their extremists, the rift between us gets wider. More and more when I see muslims here in Canada, especially when they have the obvious garb on, I cannot help but think of the differences in our culture. Churchill said it best:
http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/27711
When the average joe muslims start to stand up against the wacky views in their midst, then they can gain themselves some respect. Otherwise, as a group, they get and deserve none.
If this would have been a nutcase spouting out verses from the bible, mowing down people in a mosque, can you imagine the resulting media coverage, followed by rampages and bloodshed all over the world? It’s a given.
Thanks for this Kate, nothing like a reality wack upside the head with Sunday coffee…..
Kate: ” ‘Allahu Akbar!’—It’s the new ‘cry for help’.” Brilliant.
In an event like this, there are always (at least) two issues: (1) The event itself; what caused it; whether the authorities were negligent, and so on; and (2) What we think and therefore say about it. On the latter, the question de jour is ‘Was this a case of Islamic Terrorism?’ The liberal apologists are flooding the public forum with every conceivable excuse: He was troubled; he had been insulted; he “snapped” due to PTSD, and so he was non compos at the time, and therefore not responsible; “he was depraved on account of he was deprived” (OK, we haven’t heard that one yet, but give them time); etc. But even among the more sane commenters, there are those who are reluctant to call it ‘islamic terrorism’, and they include those who assert that it would be terrorism only if there had been a conspiracy—that is, only if it had involved more than one person, was premeditated, organized (by a “master mind”) and so on. According to known facts as of this morning, he premeditated, planned, acted alone—he murdered 13 and tried to murder many more in the name of Allah. So, call it what it was: Islam inspired mass murder.
Now, tell us again how harmless unrestricted muslim immigration is. Tell us once more of the virtues of multiculturalism.
Thank you to both ‘Kims’.
Thank you ‘Kate’ for posting this.
Thanks to Kate for posting Kim’s enlightening note to Kate’s readers, especially to Canadians.
Kim’s immediate involvement would never reach a Canadian audience via Canadian MSM.
CBC it seems turns to al-Jazeera the home of former CBC yapper Avi Lewis to spin the story.
God bless you Kim and your associates and don’t forget Kate and SDA either, for that matter!
“guilty of a hate crime”
“engaged him in conversation thereby getting to know him”
sorry, that would be an insult to Muhammad for a woman,
She should have surrendered her weapon and begged Allah for forgiveness.
Thanks Kate and Kim. Sad but moving story and first hand account.
In response to Joe Molnar’s statement about the MSMs minimalist reporting – take a look at the “left wing sites as in most of them there is NO or just passing reference to the tragedy.
“The worst was Mark Kelly on Newsworld …”
Mark Kelley is one of the worst of the worst on the marxist broadcorping castration. This is the jerk that was interviewing a senior Dutch official a couple of years ago and, in true urinalist fashion, lectured her on why the Dutch should not be restricting immigration.
Mark Kelley = the new Avi Lewis.
I linked to this post as well.
Right after doing another post on the hero who defeated the Islamic jihadist.
Spectator article below eloquently documents what the authorities actually knew about Hasan and how they did NOTHING.
Here.
Thanks for the post, and the life-saving actions.
Was it Islamic terrorism? Yes. In my view, it was. It wasn’t carried out by an Al Qaeda group but by, presumably, a single Islamic individual. Why is it terrorism? Because such violence against others is promoted by Islam.
The problem is, that Islam is a socioeconomic and political ideology, defensively cloaked as a religion. Such a cloak disables the reform of the political agenda of Islam. And Islam says it publicly – that agenda is to control, by enslavement or killing, all who are not Islamic.
“Qur’an 98:6—Verily, those who disbelieve (in the religion of Islam, the Qur’an and Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) from among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) and Al-Mushrikun will abide in the Fire of Hell. They are the worst of creatures.
Qur’an 9:29—Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the Religion of Truth, from among the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.”
What is needed, is for our public speakers, on the MSM and in government, to acknowledge the problem. The problem that Islam does not separate church and state, but that its religious ideology is also a political ideology – and that political agenda is a militant control of all other peoples.
And, Muslims around the world have to, themselves, start to separate the political from the religious axioms of Islam, and reject its 7th century tribal militancy.
Two things. We in the West have to acknowledge this anamoly of Islam; its merger of religious axioms with a political agenda. Such a merger makes it very difficult for the ever-conciliatory West, always ready to accomodate the religious issues of another people…to also reject the glued-on political agenda embedded within that religion.
And Muslims have to acknowledge this two-headed nature of Islam, and reject the political agenda.
Well said EBD and ET. Islam is a religion controlled by narrow minded bigoted individuals more concerned with their wealth and power. WE are at war and hopefully this terrible terrorist attack will awaken Americans and motivate them to take back control of their lives and destiny.
Thanks to both Kims and to Kate for posting this.
ET has it right and we ignore this at our peril. The term “religion of peace” is code for one religion for all people and that being Islam.
I am afraid that we will see more of this before the people wake up and tell people like Mark Kelly and the politicians that whitewash these acts where to stick it.
[quote]According to known facts as of this morning, he premeditated, planned, acted alone—he murdered 13 and tried to murder many more in the name of Allah. So, call it what it was: Islam inspired mass murder.[/quote]Nick
That is the truth…cold blooded murder done in the name of Allah (religion) It can’t be spun as anything but Jihad in the same league as the those individual Palestine bombers killing Jews in Israel….
The Major was born an American, was above average intelligence, was professionally rewarded & recognized, but failed to respect or understand our order of human priorities. He resorted to a 13th century call to arms (Jihad) by Allah
The Islam nations are engaged in a religious war.. We are in denial, that denial is not rational or sustainable.
God bless the 13 who were murdered.
Note: The people on the ground, in the early time frame, reported accurately to the Media. Both Fox & CNN reported that a wounded gunman was in custody (truth) and 2 more suspects were been sought. The number on dead & wounded was changing as the information became available….
When the WH became involved the Truth was lost (Gunman Dead, not a terrorist act) & the General’s first press Conference was focused on suppressing the truth. The Media coverage became controlled & orchestrated to deceive. It wasn’t until the next morning that the truth went back to gunman in custody. Strange ! and needs to be explained… Is the WH that incompetent & freaky?
Hopefully she will get the Congressional Medal of Honor for her actions and courage.
Hopefully she’d reject such a proffered award which contains the word “congress”. That would entail gangsters basking in reflected light.
EBD: Awesome, beautiful post. You are a truly gifted writer. Choked reading that.
ET: Yeah, that’s job#1 — getting the elites to make the fine distinctions: separating religion from totalitarian political ideology. Sadly, most Muslims, whom we criticize for their silence, probably agree with us but, absent courageous political leadership, are understandably keeping a low profile. As Steyn so eloquently put it, “you can’t assimilate with a nullity”.
Message to Kate: Fort Hood: One Paramedic’s Perspective (Nov, 8)
Hi, I’m a German TV journalist and film maker with the main German/European channel “ARD”
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARD
currently been researching for a documentary on future models of care (stay-play and scoop-run) in Germany, Israel and the US. I would love if you’d like to talk to me via Email (mihae@online.de) on that operation. Any hint on web based sources how your colleagues deals with the situation on the spot would be highly appreciated too. Best regards, Michael Haenel Aachen, Germany.