Risk Management Magazine

For years I have bought my children small dirt bikes and gone riding with them. I never let them ride without wearing their personal protective equipment and always set the example by wearing my own — except that one day when I made an exception.

According to the saying, there are no new accidents, just new victims. This is evidenced by the fact that we continue to lose Soldiers to the same types of preventable accidents year after year despite the Army’s best efforts to keep them safe.

The Shadow platoon conducted their initial training from January to May and, due to the entire platoon being straight from advanced individual training, the experience level was minimal at best.