Risk Management Magazine

It was the beginning of December at Camp Taegu, South Korea. I was in the seventh month of my second tour of duty assigned to the same medevac unit based at Camp Humphreys. I was only a week away from going on mid-tour leave to the states for Christmas with my wife and children.

Cold weather is more than just an inconvenience. It can be dangerous and even deadly. Luckily, our bodies have a number of ways of signaling that cold temperatures are creating dangerous conditions, and we know the steps to take to keep a cold-weather tragedy from happening.

Winter driving can be a hazardous task for Soldiers, especially in regions susceptible to a lot of snow. If proper techniques aren’t applied and Soldiers don’t exercise caution, winter driving could quickly turn into a tragedy.