Planes, Trains and Automatic weapons

[Lonewolf_50]

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 succeed (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/france-3-people-wounded-in-shooting-on-high-speed-train/)ed.

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! :ok:

[Shack37]

Well done indeed, if they hadn´t been there it would have been a disaster.

[NutLoose]

With pictures, well done guys, I hope you are suitably honoured

France high-speed train shooting: what we know so far - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11817679/France-high-speed-train-shooting-what-we-know-so-far.html)

[TBM-Legend]

Well done those Marines. Hopefully the one seriously wounded in the neck recovers quickly..

Semper Fi....:D

[rjtjrt]

Well done, and a credit to their country and their service.

[Walking Ballast]

reports of Air Force and National Guard?

Man opens fire on high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris (http://www.news.com.au/world/americans-overpower-train-gunman-on-high-speed-train-from-amsterdam-to-paris/story-fndir2ev-1227494006300)

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. :D

[Tankertrashnav]

Massive respect to these two men, a credit to their service, and also to others who also pitched in to help :ok:

[NutLoose]

Superb


US Soldier: How We Stopped Train Gunman (http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/us-soldier-how-we-stopped-train-gunman/ar-BBlZtUb?ocid=iehp)


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."



Kudos

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[woptb]

Gentlemen, you have my respect.A day's work,in the finest traditions of the US Miltary.

[BEagle]

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.

He is now being questioned by anti-terror investigators in Paris.

I do hope that those investigators have studied the persuasive questioning techniques used in The Day of the Jackal......

[Boy_From_Brazil]

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....

[Chris_H81]

I just hope some huggy-fluffy liberal tosseur doesn't start bleating about the level of force used to subdue the gunman.
Do you honestly think that sort of thing happens outside of the fictions peddled by the tabloid press? :ugh:

[Rosevidney1]

The media are working hard to avoid using 'Moslem' or 'Islamist'. I wonder why?

[Chris_H81]

Perhaps because it's yet to be proven that he is either of those things?

[Romeo Oscar Golf]

The media are working hard to avoid using 'Moslem' or 'Islamist'.
Not BBC and Sky News I'm pleased to report. A "N African (Morrocan?) terrorist with close links to a radical islamist group"

[Romeo Oscar Golf]

yet to be proven that he is either of those things?
Come come Chris,,,,,do you think the press bother too much about fact and accuracy?

[TaranisAttack]

Incredible bravery and skill!

[orca]

Good job. BZ.

[smujsmith]

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.

Smudge

[megan]

Bravo Zulu to all. :D 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? :E

[Mogwi]

Gentlemen, you have my deepest respect; your actions were most certainly in the finest traditions of your Service - whichever they may be.

Mog

[PPRuNeUser0139]

Those two US servicemen must have relished the opportunity to punch that terrorist into a state of unconsciousness.:ok: Lots of long overdue pay back there..:D
I wonder how many of us would be sufficiently switched on to take instant action as these guys did? I'd like to think the majority of us - but I'm not so sure.
How long will it be before before the ticketing and boarding process for high speed trains mimics that for aviation?

[NutLoose]

Well deserved :D:D:D

France train shooting: Hollande awards Legion d'honneur - BBC News (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34037580)

[Lonewolf_50]

The thread on Jet Blast has some reference to a fellow who lives in France also involved, who ended up taking a bullet for doing that good thing. Nice job sir.

[PAX_Britannica]

The thread on Jet Blast has some reference to a fellow who lives in France also involved, who ended up taking a bullet for doing that good thing. Nice job sir.
And a few other folk. Various European news media report that that the first person to attempt to neutralise the gunman was a french banker who requested anonymity, and who will be awarded the Légion d'honneur in a private ceremony.

[strake]

Maximum respect for all involved from discussions in my local Tabac/Bar and complete agreement that the Distinction of the Légion d'honneur is very well deserved.

[ricardian]

The man's defence is a little hard to believe (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/train-gunman-ayoub-elkhazzani-is-dumbfounded-at-terror-allegations-claims-he-found-ak47-by-chance-in-a-park-10467965.html)

[Romeo Oscar Golf]

I expect the French Authorities will soon find a cure for his "homelessness"

[NutLoose]

US Army to honour man who tackled train attacker - RTÉ News (http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0826/723575-france-train-attack/)

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