Soldier on leave follows, disarms and captures bank robber

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SARASOTA - A U.S. Army soldier visiting family in the Bay Area is being called a hero. Staff Sgt. Eddie Peoples foiled a bank robbery in Sarasota.

"He waves the gun at one of my children. So after he walked out of the bank, I followed him out here," said Peoples, speaking with FOX 13 in the parking lot of the bank after the entire ordeal.

"I've been through five deployments. I've fought the Muqtada militia, everybody you can think of, so weapons getting pointed at me, it doesn't really bother me anymore," he said. "I took the weapon away from him and put him on the ground and the rest was history."Every time I get deployed, I always tell my children I'm going to fight the bad men.

When I walked back in the bank, my oldest boy said 'did you get the bad men?' and I said 'yep, I got the bad men' and everyone applauded," Peoples said.

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/local/sun_coast/soldier-stops-bank-robbery-suspect-05312011

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Classic case of running towards the gunfire or away from it. Good stuff....

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1. My brother, who was an airborne ranger and later a policeman once said that...

...it was difficult being a policeman after military training because in the military you are told to aggressively advance toward people pointing guns at you, while as a policemen you are generally trained to retreat or at least be a great deal more cautious in situations like this. Right or wrong, it certainly sounds as though his military training kicked in.

I don't advise this as a wise course of action and I'm very glad he was not hurt.

I stamp this post with the official DU "Someone Will Likely Take This Post Grossly Out Of Context" seal.

PB

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2. I could see that...

... I would think that the ability to size someone up was critical here. That was experience talking...