WUERZBURG, Germany, March 6 (Reuters) - A court-martial on Tuesday found a U.S. Army medic who refused to return to Iraq with his unit guilty of desertion.

Mexican-born combat medic Agustin Aguayo, 35, had pleaded guilty to going absent without leave and missing his deployment but denied charges of full desertion. Colonel Peter Masterton, the military judge at the court-martial in southern Germany, said the court had found Aguayo guilty as charged.

(Reporting by Catherine Hornby, via Berlin Newsroom, +49 30 2888 5230)

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