I know of an instance where two small Navy boats willingly surrendered to the a-hole Iranians and let's not forget the Army POS who willingly surrendered to the Taliban nor EVERY a-hole in the Kenyan administration that could have helped in Benghazi.
I was in the Army and thank God I was never in the position of eat a grenade or surrender. In my heart I would NEVER surrender but not everybody has the conscience to fight, especially the new military.
“I know of an instance where two small Navy boats willingly surrendered to the a-hole Iranians”
As A hole as they are, there is a light year difference between them and the ISIS crowd.
I recall doing training in 1970s as an air marshal We were told to not fire our weapons on the plane. Also, we were told if the plane is hijacked to go along unless three countries: Albania, North Korea and a third whose name escapes me now, were the destination. When asked what to do in the case of the latter three, we were told: don’t go.
We did not do much to get the Pueblo back in the 60s. A serious black mark. Soldiers never leave comrads on the battlefield but that notion does not seem to ever get to DC. The Pueblo is still held captive by the North Koreans. We should have listened to MacArthur in 1950 and a Senator in 1968 and nuked the place.