Jake Kovco

This is not about Pte Kovco. It’s about the system.

Brigadier Cosson’s report recommends among other things that

“Review of the current… practices…including reinforcing policy on wearing dog tags at all times on operations “

Really? That and the evidence that it was relatively normal for soldiers to wave their guns around at each other.

I must be getting old. It wasn’t like that in my day.

That’s what the WWII and Korea guys used to say to me.

We’ve obviously slipped a long way since then.