From the description, these were not trained commandos. Reason? They were firing from the waist and the death toll would have been much higher.
Firing from the waist is a longtime terrorist tactic. Why? You hit people who are standing, falling and kneeling. More casualties. They are there to put two in the chest and one in the head.
I’ve spent a lot of time in India and have seen the inside
of several police stations in Mumbai, Puni, Acra, to name a few. One thing that is noticed immediately is the high level
of pencil pushers to the number of actual beat cops. The level of training is nothing compared to any small town cop here in the US. Another thing to remember is the fear of
any civil worker in India of doing the wrong thing. Nothing
is done without CYA and waiting for orders from above. In a strange or unusual situation, these people will refuse to act for fear of coming under scrutiny and the possibility of losing their rice bowl.
Most of them were issued the FAL. When firing a FAL in full auto, they don’t generally fire it from the shoulder because the massive recoil pushes you all over the place anyway. They’re trained to walk fire into the enemy on FA, if I recall correctly.
“From the description, these were not trained commandos. “
From other decriptions they were trained. perhaps not to the level of our special forces or isreali though.
They weren’t some schmucks off the street is what I heard.
A luxury one can afford only when no one is shooting back.