Wear your ‘damn seatbelts,’ generals plead after recent soldier deaths

There are ways to make this happen. One is random seatbelt checks which I did...and if you were wearing it you got a raffle ticket and if you missed, you got 15 min of extra duty. Worked wonders for my squadron

PO2 Russell "Russ" Lincoln
"FORT RUCKER, Ala. — There’s a common thread between all of the Army’s fatal on-duty ground tactical vehicle accidents since 2018, according to the service’s top safety officer.

Every single soldier who died either wasn’t wearing a seatbelt or didn’t have a functional one available.

“[During] the last four years, if you were in an accident, but you had a [working] seatbelt available to you...and you used it — you were not killed,” said Brig. Gen. Andrew Hilmes in a Monday afternoon interview. “We shouldn’t be losing people because of seatbelts.”

Hilmes, who received a Silver Star for his role as a Task Force 1-64 Armor company commander during the famous Thunder Runs into Baghdad in April 2003, is “dual-hatted” as the director of Army safety and the commander of the Army Combat Readiness Center.

Outside his Fort Rucker office, a television screen displays a graphic with the faces of each soldier killed in an accident during fiscal 2021."...

I did simple roll over drills in M1 tanks. I would yell BRACE in the intercom and we would all try to tighten up our bodies in the tank.