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Originally Posted by jaysay

According to the news this morning the soldier triped a booby trap grenade, whilst on ordinary surveillance duties, not in any kind of fire fight

During the Jeremy Vine show today Royal Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Croucher was interviewed and he stated that he and his 3 buddies were on patrol, the objective of which was to check a compound that was suspected of being a bomb making ‘factory’ and to disable it.

So whatever you heard had got it wrong. The patrol was on a seek and destroy mission.