Shock. Confusion. Fear and any other emotions that being surprised out of one's mind brought to them manifested in the soldiers when they saw the destruction the mutants had just wreaked. Aside from the fact that these creatures had been able to not just get up to their feet after eating bullets from two helicopters machine guns, but also had been able to counter attack the two transport helicopters after being taken down so roughly was nothing short of scary, impressive and confusing at the same time.
Sure, they looked hurt and were still bleeding rapidly from the many holes decorating their bodies after being assaulted the way they had been not too long ago. And even though both pilots had not used any special bullets for this attack, whatever bullets they used should still have been able to suppress the creatures for much longer than they had.
