The tragic Non-decision made by Mueller reminds me of the movie Saving Private Ryan.

[PatrickforO]

66. If you are with a small group of soldiers on a mission, and you are behind enemy lines,

you cannot take prisoners. I did try and look this up but could not find any specific regulation.

However, I did take the test for the US Marines upon entry into college, and I can remember one of the questions plain as day.

You are on a ship that is on an active mission - meaning trying to do X by time Y, and you see survivors from a shipwreck floundering in the water. It would require a deviation from course to pick them up. What do you do? It was multiple choice, and the choices were to deviate from course and pick them up, then continue the mission, break radio silence to relay their coordinates, or leave them to die and continue the mission.

I think you can probably figure out what the correct answer was - I picked deviate from course and pick them up, but that was wrong.

The correct answer was leave them to die and continue the mission.

I did not end up joining the Marines.