Army officer loses one year seniority for negligence

Lieutenant Colonel Tony Ross has lost one year of his seniority  for failing to ensure that the keys to the keys cabinet were booked in at Defence Headquarters’ Operations Room and to manage an effective booking in/out system for the keys ledger.

This decision was handed down yesterday by Judge Advocate Oslen Small at the court-martial of Ross who was in charge of the army’s arms store at the time of the theft of the 30 AK-47 rifles and five pistols in February 2006. …..