How do soldiers determine if enemy soldiers who are in the prone position are dead?
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Well, during Iraq, Marines and soldiers were allowed to conduct dead checks. After an enemy combatant was shot down, they’d shoot rounds into the body to ensure they were dead.
It sounds like a war crime, but it wasn’t. It was a modified rule of engagement due to enemy combatants feigning death or serious injury, and then would use a grenade when Marines or soldiers closed in to tend to their wounds/take them prisoner. The enemy wanted to kill themselves and take service members with them.
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