Cleland’s horrible injuries did not happen in combat??
I guess I've heard that. So Cleland is just a clumsey grenade juggler??
Yup.
That is not the point. What a disgusting comment.
So,...Kerry got brown rice and grenade fragments in his butt from his own grenade that he threw in in a rice cache, and Cleland blew off his own legs and arm,...and they are supporting each other's politics....hummmmm I just don't know what to think of that...BRRAAGWAHAHAHAHAH HA HA HA
Checked the purple heart records on Kerry's web page, NO medical reports showing what he was treated for or what wounds he sustained???
My recollection is that he found a grenade laying on the ground that one of his comrades had dropped several minutes earlier and he made the mistake of picking it up.
He was staying to have a beer with friends. As he got off the helicopter, he saw a grenade on the ground, and stooped to pick it up, thinking he had dropped it. Oops - it went off.
Actually, I've had my own theories of what happened to Cleland...
1. He could have been one of those jerks that used the grenade pull ring to attach the grenade to whatever rig he was wearing... When he moved to exit the chopper - the grenade got hung up on something during Cleland's exit, Cleland jumped to the ground, jerking the pin on his own grenade allowing it to drop ARMED to the ground at his feet......BOOM.
Variable on the above...
Cleland like MANY jerks, may have slightly compressed the pin wings on the Grenade pin, making it easier to pull the pin.. If the pin was TOO STRAIGHT -- his jump to the ground could have produced sufficient force on landing to pull the pin, allowing the grenade that was attached to his rig via the pull ring -- to drop ARMED to the ground at his feet.......BOOM.
A combination of BOTH, could have been the case - making this a Darwin event..
2. He was fragged.. This was not uncommon.
Semper Fi
Max got drunk and on his way home from the slop shute, dropped a live grenade and fragged himself. It is all in the documentary!