b)The soldier failed to report the injury to his immediate supervisor.
c) The soldier died of his willful actions in contravention of local regulations.
Doesn't seem like nitpicking to me.
Feel bad for him and his family, but he screwed up.
Treatment is a separate issue, which should be a non-issue, based on local regulations.
/johnny
How soon did the supervisor learn of it anyhow? Unless the troop really went very much out of his way to keep it on the Q.T. (and what can you do on the Q.T. in Afghanistan anyway?) It was up to the supervisor then to be sure the troop got medication that worked if it could be had. There have surely been scads of rabid dog exposures in Afghanistan and none of them led to a case of human rabies, until this.