The saga involving the Victoria Cross winner is part of a broader, very uncomfortable, look at how we prepare men and women who face the horrors of war without crossing a moral line.
In the late afternoon of April 12, 2009, Australian Special Air Service Regiment troops descended on the southern Afghanistan village of Kakarak, a Taliban insurgent stronghold.
After the assault on a compound codenamed Whiskey 108, soldiers discovered two Afghan men hiding in a tunnel.
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