For Much Of His Career He Never Shouldered A Badge.

https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2022/05/and-what-have-we-learned-since-2019.html

But, apparently. For the very special parts of it. He was some some sort of Police, per Mare.

So, let me assure you. Military Law is much like Civilian Law. In that covers everything from speeding finds to mass murder.

For example;

In war you are fully entitled to keep smashing a bayonet through someone's skull. Just along as that big bone in their head breaks, long after the little bones in your hand do.

But dare to pick up a lapel pin from the corpse afterwards. Well then that's the War Crime of Trophy Taking. Instant forfeiture of a day's pay.

Summary version;

I've inherited a fantastic collection of blood stained lapel pins.

A good to thirds of which help to dismiss that myth about the old rifles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn9K7RybdTg (Viva La Quinta Brigada, Christy Moore, Video {realistic}, TheOMaolagan).