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Get your rants straight. This was not a rigged VC booby trap. This was a grenade with the pin unbent so the pin could be pulled without effort then hung on the web belt by the pin. The guy that droped the grenade was the Darwin canidate, but Max wasn't thinking when he picked it up. When I was there and a grenade was rolling on the ground, you jumped for cover, then checked to see if it was live.

When I was there and a grenade was rolling on the ground, you jumped for cover, then checked to see if it was live.

When I was there, in an airport, I think it was NhaTrang but it's been so long I really don't remember for sure, A chicom grenade came rolling out of a stack of baggage into a group of grunts waiting for a flight. One of the guys screamed "GRENADE' and threw himself on top of it. Turns out it was a dud that someone was trying to smuggle out as a souvenir, and that guy had a bit of embarrassment over it. Still, it was absolutely the most courageous and self sacrificing thing I ever saw anyone do. I wouldn't think of him as a Darwin candidate.