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Sunday, April 23 2006 @ 03:24 AM EDT
Contributed by: River97
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 www.smh.com.au -- Private Jacob (Jake) Bruce Kovco was one of Australia's most highly trained and respected snipers.
The 25-year-old father of two was today named as Australia's first fatal casualty in the Iraq conflict - dying from an accidental shot to the head while cleaning a 9mm Browning automatic pistol on Friday afternoon.
He died in a US Army combat surgical hospital where he was surrounded by his mates, who draped his body in an Australian flag and with a paratrooper's beret on his chest as they said the Lord's Prayer.
Private Kovco, who is survived by wife Shelley and two children, Tyrie and Alana, was born in Melbourne and grew up in Victoria.
He enlisted in the Australian Regular Army in March 2002 - fulfilling a life-long ambition. After successfully completing the recruit training course, he was selected for Infantry Corps and posted to the School of Infantry, Singleton, in May 2002. |
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Tuesday, November 08 2005 @ 06:32 AM EST
Contributed by: River97
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www.theaustralian.news.com.au -- FOR the second time in 12 years, Naomi Nary is mourning the loss of a military husband, after the death of one of the nation's most experienced SAS soldiers.
Warrant Officer David Nary, who served on some of the most dangerous missions undertaken by Australia's elite SAS, was killed in a freak accident when he was hit by an army vehicle in Kuwait late on Sunday.
Mrs Nary's first husband, SAS Corporal Gordon Holland, died in a training accident at the Swanbourne barracks in Perth in 1993.
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