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What can we learn from Mike Day's experience?
- Thread starter Hiker 1
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Maybe he looked so chewed up that they overlooked him to engage a second, still-mobile target?
Certainly possible. From what I can tell from reading the different accounts, the bad guys stopped to reload. If that's accurate, they might have fired 100+ rounds amongst the 4 of them and made 27 hits. So 4 guys with rifles firing, let's say 60-120 rounds total, couldn't kill one guy at almost point-blank range.
Chief Day took them out with a 15+1 9mm and presumably didn't reload the pistol. That level of training gets down to the subconscious.
Certainly possible. From what I can tell from reading the different accounts, the bad guys stopped to reload. If that's accurate, they might have fired 100+ rounds amongst the 4 of them and made 27 hits. So 4 guys with rifles firing, let's say 60-120 rounds total, couldn't kill one guy at almost point-blank range.
Chief Day took them out with a 15+1 9mm and presumably didn't reload the pistol. That level of training gets down to the subconscious.
SPEMack618
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That level of training gets down to the subconscious.
It's sublime. You can look at the countless stories of guys like Chief Day, Marcus Luttrell, Sergeants Gordon and Shugart who kept fighting despite impossible odds.
That kind of tenacity needs to be DOD wide.
But most of my training is allocated to ROEs and sexual harassment prevention.
ratshooter said:He used a 9mm and not a 45. He used a Sig 226 and not a 1911.
That's why he was shot 27 times. If he had been carrying a 1911, all of the bad guys would have shot themselves when he walked into the room.
Microgunner
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One thing I learned , it's good to be out of harm's way.
God bless and protect those who stand in my stead.
God bless and protect those who stand in my stead.