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RF, a few friends, and I were shooting out on my range at a dueling tree. After having to shoot 1 steel paddle no less than 4 times with my 9mm service pistol to get the paddle to swing, I commented on how much I hated the 9mm, and the v.56 NATO as well, and how I had never seen a unmarried shot kill from those rounds, even at close ranges, and fifty-fifty from caput shots.

Robert asked, "Seen a few people shot, accept y'all?"

I responded, "hundreds". Then he asked me to share . . .

I hate sharing, only I've been all over the earth and I have seen a whole lot of people shot, stabbed, burned, run over, and blown up, and some of you might observe this information valuable.

I was an EMT and a trauma tech working on a truck and in a trauma room for about 10 years and I was an army gainsay medic for 8 years. Besides — and this is important — when deployed I was nigh always part of an "advisor" force. I was technically a "combat advisor" for two tours in Afghanistan, embedded with the Afghan National Ground forces and Afghan National Police force. I've done the same matter with host nation National Guard troops in Central America.

I've never worked OCONUS on a large US base, and my patients have near always been local nationals. Few of my patients OCONUS have been American troops, and I am grateful for that. Because of my specific role, and because I was often the closest competent medical provider for an extremely large number of people (sometimes over 20,000), I have treated an inordinant amount of gun shot and blast injuries in places where surgical treatment was often well over an 60 minutes away. My boilerplate medevac time for an urgent or urgent surgical patient in southern Transitional islamic state of afghanistan was four hours. That's a long time to drain. During my showtime bout in Afghanistan, I averaged ane patient death per day.

I kept mission logs and patient logs. Looking through all my logs, both CONUS and OCONUS, I have recorded 371 gun shot wounds and significant blast injuries. About 20% of my patients were children nether the approximate age of 12. About half of the total were smash wounds, primarily from mines and IEDs of all types. But that one-half represent a much greater number of deaths, and it doesn't include the dead that didn't brand information technology to me.

Let me cut to the chase here, if the goal is to live, you would rather be shot close range in the face by a 9X19 or .45ACP round than stride on a mine or be in the first 10 yards or then of whatever meaning boom. Blasts cause multiple injuries, and shrapnel from the nail is oft travelling far faster than even the fastest mod rifle caliber bullets. Wounding comes from overpressure, penetrating trauma (the vast majority of the injuries) and the body really being thrown against other objects or the footing. So if the option is to drive over an Italian anti-tank mine (still a piddling biting about that one), or take one in the noggin, I say grin and carry it.

I owe Robert an amends. I did really tape i single-shot kill from a 9X18 (Makarov). Information technology was a contact shot into the centre breast on a sleeping target. The victim died immediately. I have also recorded a few single-shot kills from a .45ACP, one from every bit far out as 60 meters, fired from an HK UMP 45, which one of our squad members carried and used with Jedi-like skill. The vast bulk of engagements with that weapon, yet, were within half that distance and patients usually took several hits. What can I say, he got lucky once.

On the civilian side, I saw simply i unmarried-shot kill from a pistol ever, and that was from a .357 magnum, within a living room, probably not more than 5 yards. The circular entered the sternum and exited the spine. In fact, within the United states, the vast majority of people that I saw shot lived later on receiving medical handling. That includes attempted suicides. I fifty-fifty had a patient live afterward a self inflicted shotgun wound to the face. He died of the cancer he was attempting to abscond from, months afterwards.

Beyond that, I do have recorded kills with a 9X19, only they all required multiple shots or they all took time to die.  Time enough to return burn or flee far plenty to accept to search for them. I don't mean seconds of life, either — I mean minutes or hours. I have seen people shot that had to traverse long distances that still got away. And damn that's frustrating.

In just about every country I take been in, our host nation counterparts — ground forces and constabulary — used the 9X19 NATO round.  Because so much of what I did was business firm-to-house constabulary searches, I've seen a lot of pistol shootings, much more than US police would ever see, and much more than experienced past most medics deploying solely with United states personnel. And yet, I have zip, not 1 single experience, where a single gunshot wound from a 9X19 NATO round killed someone prior to them being able to return burn down or flee. This includes people shot in the breast, back, back of the head (one hit behind the left ear) the neck and the confront.  None.

Unfortunately, the same goes for the 5.56 NATO round. I take even so to witness a unmarried shot quick kill with this circular. I even recorded a patient shot from less than three feet away, square in the dorsum of the head, who lived. The round did not exit his trunk. Yep, he was immediately rendered unconscious and required (might I say infrequent) medical treatment. He was asleep for at least six months after that, but he lived.

But more than importantly, in every experience, at ranges from nix (negligent discharges) to 35 yards (my closest, and worst-placed, shot on a person) to 400 yards (our average initial date distance in Afghanistan) individuals shot with a single 5.56 NATO round had time to fire, maneuver, or both. Did I run across single shots that killed eventually? Yeah. Does that affair in gainsay? Not one damn bit if you are the i they are still shooting at.

For those of you lot who say "just shoot them again," I would tell you that is really pretty difficult on a mobile target with cover at 400 meters who is shooting at you. Also, once they get shot they tend to exist a trivial more wary. People are tricky that way. I will never forget the terror of shooting a man, watching the round strike his chest, and and then meet him lay over a brusque wall to steady his aim and continue firing at my teammates.

In my experience, the standard NATO combat round pokes 5.56mm holes in both bones and mankind, shattering nothing. It creates minimal haemorrhage. I know people say information technology tumbles and yaws, but that isn't my experience at all. I saw it poke tiny holes in humans and rarely induced hemorrhaging sufficient to cause unconsciousness or uncompensated shock, which is the only consequence that matters.

On the flip side, having a patient who was shot by a vii.62X51 NATO or larger round was a rarity. Dead people aren't patients, they are a supply issue. Patients hit with a ZSU aren't patients either, they are an iron-like odor in the current of air.

Accept from that what y'all volition. For me, what I learned is, when it comes to combat, shoot the heaviest burglarize round I can, shoot at what I tin hit, and so shoot it once more if I can. I also learned that, in general, multiple organ damage shortens the time a patient is able to compensate for hemorrhagic shock far greater than the consequence of a larger wound rail in a single organ. And the Ma Deuce is the greatest, well-nigh perfect thing ever invented by human being.

I have included a photo of a patient shot at close range with the 5.56NATO round (in a higher place).  The photo is of the patient's dogie, and is as I received the patient, within minutes subsequently the shooting. Minimal care was necessary, with the chief concern being infection and tendon damage, not blood loss or bone damage. This is typical of the harm I have seen by this round.

As an aside, Chris Kyle (FWFS, brother) was a friend of mine, and while not and so patiently listening to one of my Crown-induced rants on the five.56 NATO, he suggested that it was not caliber I hated, but the bullet. He told me to load upwardly the case as fast as I could, push a 64 grain or heavier soft point round and meet what happens. And then I had Underground Tactical built me an AR in 5.56 which I swore I would never own, and built rounds ranging from 64 to 75 grains with it. I've taken 11 deer with them, and the wound tracks are nothing like I saw with the NATO round. I've never had to await for an brute, and a piffling Underground v.5lb AR in 5.56 is my go-to hill state deer gun at present, which is just crazy.

JWT
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