Planes, Trains and Automatic weapons
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Planes, Trains and Automatic weapons
Not sure if there is aviation in this, but it looks like some military is involved ...
On a train from Amsterdam to Paris, someone opened fire and two people went after him to stop him ... and succeeded.
Rumor now is that these were two American Marines, but that detail may adjust as more info is available.
Whoever these guys were .... well done!
On a train from Amsterdam to Paris, someone opened fire and two people went after him to stop him ... and succeeded.
Rumor now is that these were two American Marines, but that detail may adjust as more info is available.
Whoever these guys were .... well done!
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With pictures, well done guys, I hope you are suitably honoured
France high-speed train shooting: what we know so far - Telegraph
France high-speed train shooting: what we know so far - Telegraph
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reports of Air Force and National Guard?
Man opens fire on high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris
Regardless of Service, Very well done to all involved. Don't know that I would have had the intestinal fortitude to do what was done.
Man opens fire on high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris
Regardless of Service, Very well done to all involved. Don't know that I would have had the intestinal fortitude to do what was done.
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US Soldier: How We Stopped Train Gunman
An American soldier has told how he helped overpower a gunman who opened fire on a train from Amsterdam to Paris.
Alek Skarlatos, 22, was on a European holiday with two of his childhood friends, Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler, when they heard gunshots on the train.
When the gunman burst into their carriage, Mr Skarlatos and Mr Spencer, who is in the Air Force, charged at him.
"I just yelled 'Let's go!'," Mr Skarlatos told Sky News from his hotel from in Arras, northern France.
"Spencer got to the guy first, grabbed the guy by the neck and I grabbed the handgun, got the handgun away from the guy and threw it.
"Then I grabbed the AK, which was at his feet and started muzzle thumping him in the head with it."
As Mr Stone was wrestling the gun off the suspect, he was badly cut by the suspect, who had a box cutter knife.
Mr Stone needs surgery on his badly wounded hand, but his friends say he is "doing fine". Two other people were also wounded in the attack.
After the suspect was restrained, Mr Skarlatos - who only recently returned from Afghanistan - began disarming the gunman's pile of weapons and realised the AK47 had jammed.
"He didn't know how to fix it, which is very lucky," he said.
"If that guy's weapon had been functioning properly I don't even want to think about how it would have went.
"Spencer would have been dead for sure, because he was the first one up.
"We were incredibly lucky."
Mr Skarlatos and Mr Sadler said their "heroic" friend also saved the life of another passenger, whose throat was cut.
"In the aftermath, we saw that a man's throat had been split and he was bleeding profusely," Mr Sadler said.
"Spencer, who has some paramedics training, just clogged up his neck so he wouldn't die. This is all in the midst of Spencer bleeding profusely himself.
"It was just really heroic of him to do something like that."
He added: "I just applaud my friends for being on point.
"If Alek didn't yell 'Go!' and Spencer didn't get up straight away who knows how many people he would have shot."
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US Soldier: How We Stopped Train Gunman
An American soldier has told how he helped overpower a gunman who opened fire on a train from Amsterdam to Paris.
Alek Skarlatos, 22, was on a European holiday with two of his childhood friends, Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler, when they heard gunshots on the train.
When the gunman burst into their carriage, Mr Skarlatos and Mr Spencer, who is in the Air Force, charged at him.
"I just yelled 'Let's go!'," Mr Skarlatos told Sky News from his hotel from in Arras, northern France.
"Spencer got to the guy first, grabbed the guy by the neck and I grabbed the handgun, got the handgun away from the guy and threw it.
"Then I grabbed the AK, which was at his feet and started muzzle thumping him in the head with it."
As Mr Stone was wrestling the gun off the suspect, he was badly cut by the suspect, who had a box cutter knife.
Mr Stone needs surgery on his badly wounded hand, but his friends say he is "doing fine". Two other people were also wounded in the attack.
After the suspect was restrained, Mr Skarlatos - who only recently returned from Afghanistan - began disarming the gunman's pile of weapons and realised the AK47 had jammed.
"He didn't know how to fix it, which is very lucky," he said.
"If that guy's weapon had been functioning properly I don't even want to think about how it would have went.
"Spencer would have been dead for sure, because he was the first one up.
"We were incredibly lucky."
Mr Skarlatos and Mr Sadler said their "heroic" friend also saved the life of another passenger, whose throat was cut.
"In the aftermath, we saw that a man's throat had been split and he was bleeding profusely," Mr Sadler said.
"Spencer, who has some paramedics training, just clogged up his neck so he wouldn't die. This is all in the midst of Spencer bleeding profusely himself.
"It was just really heroic of him to do something like that."
He added: "I just applaud my friends for being on point.
"If Alek didn't yell 'Go!' and Spencer didn't get up straight away who knows how many people he would have shot."
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Indeed - very brave and a fine example for others to follow.
I just hope some huggy-fluffy liberal tosseur doesn't start bleating about the level of force used to subdue the gunman.
I do hope that those investigators have studied the persuasive questioning techniques used in The Day of the Jackal......
I just hope some huggy-fluffy liberal tosseur doesn't start bleating about the level of force used to subdue the gunman.
He is now being questioned by anti-terror investigators in Paris.
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Very brave and fast thinking guys under the circumstances.
I hope this doesn't mean that we may have to get our baggage checked before travelling by train in Europe....
I hope this doesn't mean that we may have to get our baggage checked before travelling by train in Europe....
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Originally Posted by BEagle
I just hope some huggy-fluffy liberal tosseur doesn't start bleating about the level of force used to subdue the gunman.
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The media are working hard to avoid using 'Moslem' or 'Islamist'.
Beagle #10 has a good point. The media are already showing video of the terrorist scumbag being tied up in a "stress" position. No doubt Mrs Blair and her cronies will be looking for income as a result. I for one salute all involved in preventing this potential disaster, I'm not sure that my own intestinal fortitude would have been up to their superb example. All great ambassadors for their service branches (of whatever nation) and let's not forget the British gentleman.
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Bravo Zulu to all. Loved the report in one paper, "He was just telling us to give back his gun. 'Give me back my gun! Give me back my gun!' But we just carried on beating him up and immobilised him and that was it." I wonder if he had said "please" they might have reconsidered? 
Loved the report in one paper, "He was just telling us to give back his gun. 'Give me back my gun! Give me back my gun!' But we just carried on beating him up and immobilised him and that was it." I wonder if he had said "please" they might have reconsidered?