When the enemy is feigning death and fixing themselves
with suicide vests, taking half a dozen Marines with them
when they lure them in to "help", imagine. In a perfect
battle scenario, with soldiers in uniform lined up facing
each other in battle, things go more as planned. This is
a whole different scenario, unfortunately, where walking up
to a guy playing possum on the floor gets you and your
whole platoon blown up, it bears some consideration.
John Kerry went out of his way to do the same thing to a
wounded Vietnamese teenager in the back, and got a medal for
it. Will wonders never cease?
The VC had a rocket launcher and was retreating, not lying [nearly?] motionless on the floor as a wounded prisoner. What I fault Kerry for is abandoning his command to chase the VC.