The REAL Miss America

[Twanger]

A friend sent this.
Pretty cool.

The real Miss America .

This 19 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). It 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:

http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/security_forces_sniper.jpg

[Twanger]

Well dang... I heard that Snopes says this one ain't true.
Oh well... Even if it ain't true, I still like the thought of it.

[Hi Ball]

Twanger I watched a film on the Green Beret and it showed women in the unit, also showed a woman Captain in the unit and a woman LT Col. who was incharge of recuit training in the organization. The try out period takes 2 weeks and then they make the cut and choose those they want to keep. Some 260 soldiers tried out for the unit but only around 75 made the cut.