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Navigating Heat Illnesses
9 Mar 2025

Navigating Heat Illnesses

Foot marches and land navigation training involve a great deal of walking while wearing a rucksack and other required equipment. These types of physical activities induce significant sweating and fatigue, which can lead to heat illnesses. It’s important that leaders are aware of common heat illnesses associated with these activities, as well as preventive measures to minimize the risk.

Your Input Matters: Data Quality in ASMIS 2.0

Your Input Matters: Data Quality in ASMIS 2.0

Data quality is a critical component in the effective use of the Army Safety Management Information System (ASMIS) 2.0. High-quality data ensures ASMIS 2.0 can fulfill its purpose of improving safety protocols, reducing mishaps and enhancing overall mission performance.

  • 9 March 2025
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Slip and Slide

Slip and Slide

For service members, the first few weeks of reintegration after a long combat tour are crucial. We have to discard basic actions of doing even the smallest tasks that kept us safe during a time of danger. Surviving such harsh conditions also may give service members a false sense of invincibility.

  • 9 March 2025
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Heading Off the Rails

Heading Off the Rails

There I was, fresh out of Advanced Individual Training. I had just reported to my unit three weeks prior and now found myself sitting in the driver’s seat of a Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT) parked on a railcar. A few questions were running through my mind: How did I get here? What in the world is a HEMTT? Am I going to drive this thing off the ramps? This was going to be bad.

  • 2 March 2025
  • Author: USACRC Editor
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Blind to the Risks

Blind to the Risks

I knew I couldn’t stop in time, so I instinctively grabbed a handful of front brake and started looking for maneuver options, but they were limited. There was no road shoulder — only a pineapple field to my right. Riding into it would ensure a crash, so that wasn’t a good option.

  • 2 March 2025
  • Author: USACRC Editor
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Don't Be 'That Guy'

Don't Be 'That Guy'

I was an extremely new Readiness Level 1 (RL-1) pilot at Camp Humphreys, Korea, flying with a 15-plus-year maintenance test pilot/pilot in command (PC) who was known for being either great as a trainer or for creating the most hostile cockpit you can imagine.

  • 2 March 2025
  • Author: USACRC Editor
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