The motif of surviving a slaughter by playing dead is
so widespread in popular narrative that it is hard to actually believe it. In
modern warfare soldiers are trained in so called “dead-checking” – that is
checking if a fallen enemy is really dead. Just as the following statement:
Marines are taught “dead-checking” in boot camp, the School of Infantry at Camp Pendleton, and the pre-deployment training at Twentynine Palms called Mojave Viper, he said. (source1)
