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Maybe she did try to "fight to the death", more likely she didn't--

Sure is nice of you to automatically assume her story isn't the truth with no more evidence to support that conclusion either.

I agree it's not a "nice" assumption, but if every POW (and we're talking about a supply clerk, not an infantryman or a Special Op operator) who said they fought like they didn't want to be captured alive had, there would be a lot fewer POWs captured alive (granted, there haven't been large numbers of non-aviator POWs captured since the Korean war).

From studies S.L.A Marshall conducted during World War II, only 25% of soldiers in battle, even in the most extreme circumstances, ever pull the trigger. I know there has been a lot of debate in recent years about Marshall's methodalogy, but it's unusual for a green soldier to shoot and keep shooting until they run out of ammo and then be captured alive.

I'm not calling her a liar, how we remember things that happen under extreme stress is not always what really happened. I do hope the evidence proves my assumption wrong, I really do, but I'd like to see what other evidence the Army has that things played out that way.