“Right, but how did that happen?”
From Maury Cralle’, Battalion Executive Officer, 2d/12th Cavalry Battalion, 1st Air Cavalry Division:
“During the assault on Khe Sanh, Max Cleland, the Battalion Signal Officer, was at the Battalion Forward Command Post in heavy combat. I ordered Max on a combat mission to erect a radio relay antenna on a nearby mountain top.
As they were getting off the helicopter, Max saw a grenade on the ground and he instinctively went for it. It detonated and he lost his legs.”
It was later learned that it was another soldiers grenade.
What happened was that a real hero, in combat, was badly wounded. It doesn’t matter what form of friendly or enemy fire caused it.
You do not get to make fun or, in any way stand in judgement of our wounded soldiers on the field of battle.
You’re wrong about that.