He went to went to work, knowing from the moment he saw the wound spouting arterial blood that this was hopeless. He went down to the commander's neck with his fingers & pinched off the carotid artery. Then he jammed commander's jaw open to administer mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. The commander's brains where in his mouth, he could taste them.
He sighed out of fury.
"Why the ♥♥♥♥ am I fighting a war? This sucks."
Charlie Company was stuck in the middle of a NVA command post with a broken radio & a dead commander. Stolen from life to be in the army, told to run into an enemy camp by a man who had seldom shot a rifle.