An armoured vehicle commander who died in an overseas exercise after pressing on with a manoeuvre despite a faulty night vision device and without turning on the headlights because he felt they would give away his position to the "enemy".
A platoon that did not seem to have spoken out about insufficient minimum rest-time the night before a fast march that later resulted in the heatstroke death of a full-time national serviceman.
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