US President Barack Obama has praised two off-duty
US soldiers for their role in stopping a gun attack on
a train travelling between Amsterdam and Paris.
Obama thanked the men for their "courage and quick
thinking" after the attack on Friday on Belgian
territory near the northern French town of Arras. Two
others, including another US national, and a British
man living in France were also involved in tackling
the attacker.
The incident left three people injured, including one
of the men who subdued the gunman, a 26-year-old
of Moroccan origin who was known to the
intelligence services, French investigators said.
The man, who was arrested at a railway station in
Arras, had a Kalashnikov, an automatic pistol,
ammunition and a box cutter in his luggage, one
police source told AFP news agency after Friday's
incident.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/08/gunman-opens-fire-paris-amsterdam-train-arras-150821231210850.html

those are great men

Now that's what I call being in the right place at the right time.
If those soldiers weren't trained to notice "fishy" things, it probably would have been a tragic different ball game.