Judge: Corpsman detonated grenade on purpose

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Judge: Corpsman detonated grenade on purpose
By Dianna Cahn
The Virginian-Pilot
© May 16, 2014

NORFOLK

Immediately after a grenade explosion injured their medic, members of the SEAL Team 10 unit raced to retrieve their injured comrade.

At first, they assumed the attack at their base in southeastern Afghanistan came from outside.

But as the hours passed without incident, tension grew between the Americans and their Afghan counterparts, whom they began to view suspiciously. Was this one of those “green on blue” attacks, in which Afghan forces target their American mentors?

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On Thursday, a military judge, Cmdr. Michael Luken, found Pescador-Montanez guilty of detonating a grenade to injure himself, recklessly endangering two Afghans in an earlier, failed attempt to explode the grenade and negligently discharging his firearm.