What's the problem, it isn't as if he adorned the terrorist's head with a pair of women's bloomers?
Unless they have been in similiar situations . . . . . . . Many was the time in Vietnam when bodies were boobie trapped with frags. Roll them over to see if they were alive or dead and "BANG" you are DEAD. This Marine was a smart one and is now a live one. If the brass have any sense of gonads they will simply tell him not to do this with cameras around. Better yet, get the reporters off the battlefield one way or another.
Should have fragged the reporter.