Cheerleader, now sniper, makes 725 yard shot up the butt of an IED guy

[Louis of PA]

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Cheerleader sniper

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A friend of mine sent me this picture and told me the female airman is a
USAF Security Forces sniper. She was a high school cheerleader and
Homecoming Queen and enlisted in the military after her graduation. She
qualified very high in marksmanship and was trained as a sniper.

My buddy served with her recently in Afghanistan. He said on Easter day
she was watching a road that lead to a NATO military base when she
observed a man digging by the road. She engaged the target?.she shot
him. Turned out he was a bomb maker for the Taliban and was burying an
IED (a roadside bomb) 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. I have trouble seeing that far. She shot him as he was bent over
burying the bomb. The shot struck him in the butt blowing into the bomb
which detonated. He was blown to pieces.

The Air Force made a motivational poster of her.

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[Dan In Indiana]

Bet her male friends don't give her too much trouble

[Gator]

It's a great story, but it's fiction. The Airman is a sniper, and cute, but the rest of it ain't so. And the poster wasn't made by the Air Force, it's a photoshop job.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/cheerleader.asp

[dryheat]

Never-the-less, what a woman! Glad I read the snopes report,it's even better.

[erikor]

I was wondering how they were able to determine where the shot struck him if it also detonated the bomb. There shouldn't have been enough of him left to fill a shoe box.

[John Kepler]

You guys ALL need to get out more! You've obviously never heard of Sheri or Michelle Gallagher....Sheri is in the Army now and on the MTU! She's also shot "cleans" at 1000 yds. Sister Michelle was the youngest winner of the NRA National Long Range Championship in history....she won the "sausage" when she was 15! They learned how to "do it" from their Mom, multi-time NRA Highpower and Long Range Champion and US Palma Team Member Nancy Tompkins-Gallagher, and step-Dad, Mid Tompkins...them apples sure didn't fall far from the tree! Then there's Julie Watson.....cute as a bug, now a married Mommy....still a Marine Corp Reserve shooter, and a multi-time NRA National Service Rifle Champion.....probably the best Offhand Highpower shooter in the last 50 years!

[critter44]

I have a friend who has a grandson married to a young lady who is a USAF security sniper who has just been sent to Baghdad within the last few weeks. A great young lady, indeed, well trained and very capable.

The folks at our church are sending her mail and small reminders of home while she is stationed over there to help keep her spirits up and to let her know that the folks back home support her and wish her well and home soon.

Keep her (and all our service folks there) in your thoughts. They have a tough job physically and mentally.

[deano41]

That's great that you are sending her cards and letters. We sent our neighbor's son white cotton boot sox (they wear out fast), chapstick, hard candy, goldbond powder, and other things they might not be able to get easily. Ask her what she could use (and tell her not to be embarrased, she's doing a great job and deserves it!)

Dean (the other one)
OFC-Orange County Chapter

[John Kepler]

That's great that you are sending her cards and letters. We sent our neighbor's son white cotton boot sox (they wear out fast), chapstick, hard candy, goldbond powder, and other things they might not be able to get easily.

What my son wanted was "mouthwash"....lotsa "mouthwash"! Did you know that Listerine and Glenfiddich look the same....and that green food coloring doesn't bother vodka at all?

They ain't "little kids", and they're doing "Men's Work"!

[0311Shooter]

Even if this story is false (I don't completely trust Snopes - they are a liberal bunch) it warms the cockles of my heart.

But what John K. said is so very true. Frequently when I get my Amer Rifleman or TSRA mag in, I will scan through it to see the winners of the national matches. It's amazing that so many winners are, gasp, women. But it stands to reason, they are young, great eyesight, steady hands, soft touches, and are dead on.

More power to them.