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I'm could be wrong but I believe it's called the Ruger Mini 14. The Air Force Sea/Sar teams use it as well and because of poor stopping power of the 9mm pistol certain branches of the military are allowing the use of the .45 pistol(but you, the soldier or marine have to buy your own.) In an article I read, either on Front Page Magazine or maybe here, the intell units of the Army and the Marine Corps conducted some extensive examination of the regular Iraqi Army and Republican Guards as well as the irregular forces like the Fedyeen Saddam and their fighting abilities , small unit tactics and their over-all competence on the battlefield. While the regular army units put up little organized resistance, having experienced the might of the US military in 1991, the Republican Guard did attempt to engage Coalition forces using mortars and some artillery, but they too didn't see the sense in being butchered for a dying, despotic regime and either surrendered or simply took off their uniforms and went home.
They did happen though to score a Sunday punch however when using spotters and cell phones, managed to get the coordinates of the 3rd Inf/Mech's Tactical Operations Center and hit it with a Frog-7(free range over ground) missile. It caused some casualties but it was up and running again in an hour. It was the performance of the irregular forces that intrigued the intell guys the most. All most all of them were either from Egypt, Syria or Yemen with no real training at all. They had little or no understanding of fire and maneuver and almost always presented themselves as targets. Our soldiers and marines told stories time and again of having put four or five and sometimes more rounds into these guys from M-16s and they just keep coming. When engaged with the 240 machine guns or .50 cals, they went down and stayed down but it was disconcerting for them to see how little effect the high velocity 5.56 mm on some of these jihadis. And the 9mm Bereta? One soldier said, ''that thing did little more than piss them off''. What was discovered though in autopsies on the jihadis is that they were pumped up full of amphetamines, pain killers tranquilizers , all kinds of dope so they wouldn't feel pain that much. Kind of a ''poor mans'' body armor. What the jihadis who surrendered were afraid of and in awe of was the almost unerring aim of our soldiers and marines when they were engaging the enemy using their rifles. Some of them thought our guys possessed some kind of ''evil magic''.