Soldiers swap role-playing for the real thing

FOUR soldiers killed at one checkpoint, three civilians at another.

Thankfully, the flip-chart documenting the deaths was part of a preparatory exercise and not real life.

The setting yesterday was the Kilworth military training camp in Cork, where soldiers from the 1st Southern Brigade conducted various scenarios that might confront them in their forthcoming deployment to Kosovo. In a month’s time, role-playing will stop and the serious business begin.