Arm out the window
Actually, if you read my post, I'm referring to public servants, not ADF members.
What's so refreshing about Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston is that he immediately understood the gravity of the latest developments in the Private Kovco affair, and took full responsibility.
He could have made any number of excuses, or just not fronted. But instead he accepted that the buck stops with him.
If only government ministers and senior public servants, such as the Secretary of the Department of Defence and the Head of the Defence Materiel Organisation, were as quick to accept their responsibilities, and as slow to blame their underlings when things go wrong.