Corpsman avoids duties with a grenade
Someone dropped off this link on our Facebook page about Petty Officer 1st Class Omar Pescador-Montanez, a Navy Corpsman assigned to SEAL Team 10 who really didn’t want to treat an couple of Afghans;
One of the men waiting worked for U.S. forces at the compound in southeastern Afghanistan. He escorted the other man — thought to be an Afghan soldier — complaining of leg pain.
In actions at the heart of a criminal case against him, Pescador-Montanez suddenly ran into the room and told the men to take cover; he thought someone had thrown something into the building.
Nothing happened. All three ran outside and didn’t see anything. Then Pescador-Montanez ran back into the building. There was an explosion.
Pescador-Montanez claims that he was attacked by a grenade, but the Navy says otherwise;
The Navy accuses the corpsman of creating the entire scene, exploding the grenade to get out of his duties, and then lying about it.
I guess we’ll find out in May at his court martial.
Category: Navy
Holy shiite!! Now THAT is some hardcore malingering.
Was this a personal thing? Or was this a bias that had escaped notice for too long?
“The Navy accuses the corpsman of creating the entire scene, exploding the grenade to get out of his duties, and then lying about it.”
– – his team members must have had this guy figured out based on past behavior. Even trying to give him the benefit of the doubt and based on the little we know from this story he seems like he should have been waiting tables at the PX instead of being a Corpsman.
Did this corpsman pull a bernath, or what?!?
Methinks this comes under the heading of “Nonspecific Mental Disorder.” Clearly, there are issues here and it sounds to me as if the more appropriate response is medical, not legal.
When you really, really, REALLY want to get out of doing something.
Okay now, a shot in your foot or leg or maybe a bayonet wound to a none lethal area but a grenade? Too unpredictable. That’s really wanting to get home bad. Well he’ll get to come home now. Just not the way he planned. Section 8. But then again, he planned it out and executed it which kinda precludes mental disorder in mind. I am sure the Court Martial will find him clear to stand trial but his defense team will pull the mental defect, PTS card for sure.
I’m not so sure Sparks. I don’t know anything about this case (I wish I did) but I wouldn’t say that planning alone precludes the presence of a mental disorder. It may suggest that the person was criminally responsible, but not necessarily that they aren’t also ill.
I heard a case argued in front of the CAAF (it’s in the public record) last year in which the defendant had Schizophrenia. Both sides, trial and defense, agreed the kid was genuinely ill and psychotic at the time of the crime. In that particular case, the kid had a delusion that he had been repeatedly gang raped by a variety of people. Once on the ship, he saw a guy he delusionally believed had assaulted him in the past. He ended up intentionally arming himself and then stabbing the guy because he believed that if he didn’t kill him, the guy would rape and kill him instead. In his mind, it was self defense though clearly, it was all a product of his psychotic thinking. He was ultimately convicted though I believe he was given some leniency in sentencing.
The circumstances of this case raise an eye brow. Corpsman are as capable of screwing up as the next guy, but this type of behavior out of an E6 and a SEAL corpsman at that is really odd.
Friggen What?????
You just tarnished the name of every Corpsman that ever served in the Medical Corps you asshole.
No, he didn’t. We don’t assign collective guilt here, that’s what idiot Progressives do.
No-one is responsible for his actions but himself.
Correction:
We do (by we, I mean at least me) assign collective guilt to idiot Progressives.
People go to great lengths to get out of stuff. We had a guy get all coked up and chop off the first knuckle of his trigger finger to get out of going to Iraq. We all called him Frodo after that. I think he is still at Ft. Leavenworth.
Burn his ASS!
What? More to this story? HM’s are usually the bravest one’s in the field. Perhaps he was just fed up with the Afgan’s bull shit. BZ
He’s got a little more rank on than I would expect to see on the usual garden variety malingerer. It will be interesting to see how this shakes out.
SEAL Team 10… standards?