WATCH: A 60Minutes investigation into military vehicle training accidents, many of which are fatal, reveals faulty equipment and poor training
As a parent or partner of someone in the military, you're far likelier to get the dreaded"call" only to learn your loved one was killed not in combat, but in an accident. And as we first reported in February, far too many of the accidents involve armored vehicles - and happen during training.
Peter Ostrovsky: So they're sitting in a parking lot on Camp Pendleton baking in the sun. They're deteriorating. Peter Ostrovsky: A week prior to the mission, we were speaking on the telephone. And he made the comment that"AAVs sink all the time." They've called them, and he called it a"floating coffin."Two AAVs broke down and their sons' designated vehicle sprang an engine leak. And yet the mission was not aborted.
Peter Ostrovsky: The top-down incompetence, the lack of readiness, Really the lack of duty of care for our sons-- it was shocking.Peter Vienna: There's the Feres doctrine - makes that impossible. His left leg had to be amputated above the knee.The right leg was so badly damaged, he spent the next two years in rehab, learning how to walk again.
But there are more steps the military could take that they haven't, involving relatively inexpensive upgrades to the vehicle involved in most accidents: the Humvee. But watch: drivers could have a better chance when Humvees are retrofitted with IMMI's restraints and airbags. We were going less than 30 miles an hour. The two yellow bars were there to prevent us from actually tipping over.
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