How do soldiers determine if enemy soldiers who are in the prone position are dead?
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historically you would have teams roaming the battlefield who would be either collecting wounded for treatment or imprisonment depending on what side they were on. or to finish them off to loot the corpse of any weapons, usable armour and so on.
this was done historically with spears. you’d just walk upto a body and give it a good poke with the blunt end. or just stabb it with the pointy end.
then it was done with bayonetts and then with an extra bullet.
now there’s laws and stuff in the way of that and Im unfamiliar with how it works now so someone else can answer that.
but yes after a battle it was often a case of “lets see what good shit the enemy had. and if they’re still alive. well lets correct that mistake.”
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