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Topics => Military News/Veterans => Topic started by: AlanS on July 21, 2014, 09:21:07 PM
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http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/dr-ruth-sniper (http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/dr-ruth-sniper)
Part of what attracted her to the role, Rupp said, was a little-known fact: Dr. Ruth was a trained sniper. “Not an act of heroism,” Westheimer clarified. “In 1947 and ’48, everybody in then-Palestine belonged to some group. I chose the group that was the forerunner of the Israel Defense Forces. And I did not know that I had good aim. So when they did some selection, whatever, they put me in a group and they taught me how to put the Sten gun together. I shot the sky very nicely with my eyes closed.” Fortunately, she never had to put her skills to use. “I have no idea what the experience would be, if I had to show it. But I was a very good sniper. I could put the five bullets in the red circle. And I know how to throw hand grenades.”
(http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/dr-ruth-play.jpg)
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I met her once - a very spunky lady.
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One of those stories you read and are not surprised, at least for me. You can usually tell the genuine from the fraud, she never came off as a fraud. Oh, and that IDF forerunner? That would be the Hahagana.
::thumbsup::
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I met her once - a very spunky lady.
Considering her particular medical profession, spunk was probably a big part of it indeed.
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::hysterical::