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When I was an infantryman in the U.S. Army, my leadership drilled a lot of different ideas into my head, from never leaving my post to “keeping my head on a swivel” to never leaving a fallen comrade behind. Pretty high up there in ideas I heard over and over again was that if I ever “double tapped” a wounded combatant (fired on them again after they had already been incapacitated or otherwise neutralized), I would probably go to prison. When I first deployed during the troop surge in Iraq, I was a 20-year-old with just a high school diploma—no one could have mistaken me for a legal scholar. But while some of the situations I ended up in were complex and difficult t

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