User blog comment:Griever0311/Ask A Marine Part Cinq/@comment-1260687-20100331004421

Well, you've got to think that the enemies we've been fighting don't have the same medivac capabilities we do, and don't have as much invested in ther troops, so they're not going to undertake the same survivability measures we do. You can take a hostile out of the fight long enough to drag his insurgent buddy's soon-to-be-corpse away, or you can kill his ass and know for sure he's not coming back. When Marines fire their weapons, they fire with an edged killing intent.