More like a Darwin Award nominee if you ask me.
Another soldier had a rigged grenade that he dropped next to Cleland and Cleland picked it up thinking he had somehow dropped it; being rigged to go off easily, with the safety measure of the pin defeated, it went off. This Qualifies him as a Darwin Award nominee how? Since you're criticizing his service in the Nam, I assume you were there also. Exactly what would you have done under these circumstances? Would the same apply to every GI who lost limbs of life to VietCong rigged grenades ans such (booby traps)?