The unstoppable Sherri Gallagher

[Mirage]

SGT Sherri Gallagher is the first female to win the Solder Of the Year Award.
I hope they let her return from deployment to compete at Camp Perry.
She has the potential to break all the records that have been set, but if she is on deployment and misses a national she will not have the opportunity to break the most consecutive wins.

http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2011/01/camp-perry-champion-sherri-gallagher-on-fox-and-friends/

[bruceflinch]

Cool! Go Sherrie!

[Steyrlp10]

Very impressive - woohoo!

[pullnshoot25]

Hot damn.

[Uriah02]

I'm kinda surprised they would deploy her following the 2009 win. I would think the MU would want her that much more for recruiting/PR.

[VegasND]

Nice to learn about her. Thanks for posting.

[Mirage]

I'm kinda surprised they would deploy her following the 2009 win. I would think the MU would want her that much more for recruiting/PR.

I am a bit concerned about the wisdom of sending her to instruct Afgan men myself.
Snip from Wikipedia:
"Women were forced to wear the burqa in public, because, according to a Taliban spokesman, "the face of a woman is a source of corruption" for men not related to them.[3] They were not allowed to work, they were not allowed to be educated after the age of eight, and until then were permitted only to study the Qur'an. Women seeking an education were forced to attend underground schools , where they and their teachers risked execution if caught. They faced public flogging and execution for violations of the Taliban's laws."

This is based on Pashtunwali beliefs (the majority ethnic group in Afganistan).
In a country where it is accepted that women are inferior to men, to all of the sudden have to take instruction from a woman I feel will come to no good.
She would be such an asset as a DI training US troops here or over there, but not the Afgans.

[Steyrlp10]

I am a bit concerned about the wisdom of sending her to instruct Afgan men myself.
Snip from Wikipedia:
"Women were forced to wear the burqa in public, because, according to a Taliban spokesman, "the face of a woman is a source of corruption" for men not related to them.[3] They were not allowed to work, they were not allowed to be educated after the age of eight, and until then were permitted only to study the Qur'an. Women seeking an education were forced to attend underground schools , where they and their teachers risked execution if caught. They faced public flogging and execution for violations of the Taliban's laws."
This is based on Pashtunwali beliefs (the majority ethnic group in Afganistan).
In a country where it is accepted that women are inferior to men, to all of the sudden have to take instruction from a woman I feel will come to no good.
She would be such an asset as a DI training US troops here or over there, but not the Afgans.

It's interesting you brought this point up. Years ago when the Muslim world was not so frequently in the news, I had an EXPAT friend working in Saudi Arabia as a photojournalist. He was a native New Yorker and would tell me how it was dangerous to celebrate Christmas over there. I was pretty stunned, being young and not too worldly at the time, but I was even more stunned when he told me that women could not move about (even to grocery shop) without a male escort who was either a family member or spouse.

Get this... he found it amusing to show some of my photos with my guns to cause a bit of controversy with his Muslim coworkers. The idea that a woman could shoot -- and shoot with men -- pretty much scandalized them.

[Mirage]

Nice to learn about her. Thanks for posting.

Thanks.
I feel uneasy about posting in the womens forum.
I worry it will get the same reception as walking into a womens dressing room.