We all know about the terrible events which took place on the Ft Hood military base in Texas this week. When Dierks Bentley played there recently he met Sgt Kimberly Munley, one of the people credited with stopping the shooter and being wounded herself in the process.

Dierks remembered Sgt Munley and called her. "I said I was honored to have my picture with her and that my band and I were all thinking of her and praying for the folks on the base. I told her, 'We are all just really thankful to you,' " says Bentley. "She was quiet and she's just humble person and said she was just doing what she does. She would say she's just out there doing her job, but it's a pretty amazing job she did. It's pretty impressive. I can't imagine what that experience was like but she said she's okay. She said she lost a lot of blood but it sounded like she's on the road to recovery."

Dierks now plans to return to Ft Hood to visist Sgt Munley again. He is confident the Army community will draw strength from its close bond to overcome this tragedy. He said: "God, these families – there is a reason why they call them Army strong. There's strong and then there's Army strong," he says. "They have to deal with their friends, husbands, sons, daughters putting themselves in harm's way far away and now to have that worry in their own community where they should feel they are the safest? But these are the strongest people. It's a really tight-knit group and they lift each other up when they are down."

Well done Sgt Munley, and well done Dierks for passing on the thoughts of many of us.