This nineteen-year-old ex-cheerleader (now an Air Force Security Forces Sniper) was watching a road that led to a NATO military base when she observed a man digging by the road. She engaged the target (i.e., she shot him). Turned out he was a bomb maker for the Taliban and he was burying an IED that was to be detonated when a US patrol walked by 30 minutes later. It would have certainly killed and wounded several soldiers.
The interesting fact of this story is the shot was measured at 725 yards. She shot him as he was bent over burying the bomb. The shot went through his butt and into the bomb which detonated; he was blown to pieces. The Air Force made a motivational poster of her:
(Folks, that’s a shot 25 yards longer than seven football fields!)
Too bad your friend Pat Buchanan doesn’t believe in women in combat…without this woman in combat, there’d be another murdering terrorist still walking around.
I do not care waht Buchanan believes are regardind this matter!. What should and must be point out is that this WOMAN in serving her and our country saved lives on her dutty!
BTW, Mster Crowley can you please send me a link about this news? Thanks.
When my dad was a Jarhead in the early 1960’s they would shoot a 10″ target at 1000 yards without the aid of a scope.
The shot is kind of unremarkable, but the motovational is ubercool.
Mary
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread.php?t=415856
And if this girl gets pregnant, how effective will she be? The best study of this is by Martin van Crevald in, “Men, Women, and War.” One reviewer summarized his findings:
“The numbers of American servicewomen, he argues, have increased only because major wars and the forces that are earmarked for waging them have been on the decline. ‘The influx of women into the military, far from representing some world-historical step in women’s unstoppable march towards liberation, is both symptom and cause of the decline of the military in question.’ Women in armies, he says, turn training into a mockery and humiliate men while absorbing precious resources by demanding everything from separate toilets to pregnancy care and special uniforms.”
30 years ago, I was in the U.S. Army for 4 years and saw this first hand as it started. When our military intelligence field unit went on maneuvers in West Germany, we had to take with us a girl soldier 6 months pregnant because she couldn’t get some chit to let her out of field duty. And if the Soviets had attacked?
Use your common sense, people.
By the way, when did the U.S. Congress declare war on Afghanistan, as mandated by the U.S. Constitution?
Oh, and it’s disgusting that chickenhawks like Bush and Cheney, Obama and Biden, would send girls to fight for them.
hey…how do we send this lady a girls shoot better tee shirt…we have a clothing company and a shirt that says. “girls shoot better”
i want to thank this girl and the men that are in our armed forces and thank them all.
John
just to let you guys know she is hot and all but acording to snopes.com real photo inacurate decription go check it out i read it on the internet so its gotta be true dont be so gullible
Don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story.