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Originally Posted by punky
Even so, being wired up with drugs can only do so much though. I think those marines aren't shooting well enough, or the insurgents are better armoured than the coalition realise. Even without armour though, 5 x 9mm rounds doesn't equal an immediate death sentence, especially from a distance and if they manage to not hit anything major. 50cent was shot 9 times, at close range and survived. He was shot in the face as well.
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I sincerely doubt that the insurgent was shot with a submachinegun, fireing 9mm rounds.
In a USMC Rifle Platoon, there are two weapons systems available to increase the firepower of the Marines. These are :-
1). The M 240 Squad Automatic Weapon, firing a 5.56mm M198 standard Nato Ball Round.
2). The M 249 General Purpose Machinegun, firing a 7.62mm Nato Ball Round.
Having been traing in FIBUA (Fighting In Built Up Areas), the contact ranges in firefights are considerably less than those of a typical battlefield. While battlefield ranges are considered to be 300m, in Urban Warfare ranges of 50 - 100m are more likely. So putting a five round burst into the torso of a 'tango' is more than feasible. While the wounds from a military ball round, even from several rounds, prolly wont kill immediately, they do tend to put the target on their ass. For those of you who have ever seen the films of British soldiers going over the top during the Battle of the Somme, you will have seen British soldiers dropping like boned fish. This is caused by the bodies central nervous system 'shutting down' at the moment of impact. When a person is shot, they dont go spinning around as per the movies.
So, in my own opinion, if the descritions of Iraqi insurgents taking multiple gun shot wounds and not falling over. Then perhaps the yanks are correct in their assertation that insergents where under the infulence of drugs.