[jbg]

What I heard, from a friend at Fort Benning, is that he was a battalion S-4 who decided to go to the field one day, and attached 2 hand grenades to his equipment by those convenient rings on the top. One snagged on something when he got off the helicopter. Others soldiers were wounded as well.

[Chemnitz]

"For years, Cleland believed he had dropped the grenade that nearly took his life. But Lloyd assured him it was another Marine, who had straightened all his grenade pins, who dropped the explosive that Cleland stumbled upon.

'It took such a load off my mind," Cleland said. "When I first got the call, I just didn't believe it.'"

From: http://www.savannahnow.com/stories/113000/LOCbooksigning.shtml