The Enemy Within

On the 29th August 2012, three Australian soldiers were gunned down inside their patrol base in Afghanistan. The killer was an Afghan soldier they had been helping to train. They believed he was a comrade in arms. They were wrong. The soldiers, Lance Corporal 'Rick' Milosevic, Sapper James Martin and Private Robert Poate, had been sent to a remote patrol base they knew very little about, amid a surge of 'green on blue' attacks by Afghan soldiers on Coalition troops. Defence maintains there was no failure of intelligence prior to the mission, and that the platoon commanders were responsible for security arrangements on the night in question.