![]() Navy officials have given few details other than to say there was an alleged sexual assault and drinking at a Fourth of July barbecue in Iraq in 2019 in violation of Navy rules barring deployed troops from consuming alcohol. It was an extremely rare move to cut short the mission of a unit that was there to combat remnants of ISIS. Within weeks, the entire Foxtrot platoon of SEAL Team 7, known as Trident 1726, was sent home early to San Diego. Grace sent the photos to her friend's phone, and then hugged her and cried, unsure of what would happen next.īut she and her friend would not stay silent. She said she lifted her friend's shirt to find more bruises - on her breast, a shoulder, her stomach. Grace gingerly asked her if it would be OK to photograph her injuries. Her friend told her that at one point she thought "what is he going to do with my body when he kills me?" because she said he was strangling her so hard she couldn't breathe. Grace said her friend told her the sex started out consensual in the SEAL's room but then he started biting and choking her. It was then that Grace realized the overheard conversation about a rape was about her friend. ![]() When Grace got to her friend's room around 1:50 a.m., she found the sailor curled up in her bed. Just then Grace noticed a missed text from a friend asking her to come over. Grace, who could no longer hear the conversation between medical professionals, looked down at her phone to check the time. "It's a good ol' boy's network." She said she heard Collins urge Llerenes to keep his voice down, saying the walls between the rooms were thin. Thomas Collins, a physician's assistant with the Florida National Guard. "And that's real," Grace heard Hospitalman First Class Gustavo Llerenes tell Col. The corpsman asked the colonel what to do because the victim was afraid that if she reported the incident, retribution would follow. Grace heard the corpsman say that a sailor who attended a Fourth of July barbecue had just been raped by a member of the Navy SEAL platoon on the base. ![]() He was upset and speaking loudly to the Army colonel who lived next door. The voice belonged to a Navy corpsman she knew. Navy intelligence specialist Colleen Grace was asleep on a remote air base in Iraq in 2019 when she was woken up by knocking on the door next to her room, and then a voice she recognized. ![]()
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