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Michael McDowell Fellow, International Security Program Michael H.C. McDowell is a Fellow in New America's International Security Program, focusing on the alarmingly high death rate and critical injury toll on soldiers, Marines, airmen and women, and Navy personnel, in military tactical vehicle "rollovers"-- Humvees, Light Armored Vehicles, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, heavy troop trucks, dune-buggy-like MRZRs, etc. The fatalities, all in training, on these "vics," now exceed deaths in combat. Each of these war machines is top-heavy, over armored, and prone to "rollover" if not driven carefully...

Instead, lower ranks are often penalized in a shameful pass-the-blame game, this op-ed author says.

The Buck Stops Here: Hold High-Ranking Officers Responsible for Training Accidents A U.S. Marine carries a pair of combat boots during a memorial service at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Aug. 21, 2020, held in remembrance of the eight Marines and one sailor from Bravo Company, BLT 1/4, 15th MEU, who died in an assault amphibious vehicle mishap (U.S. Marine Corps/Cpl. Dalton S. Swanbeck) 5 Apr 2021 Military.com | By Michael McDowell Michael H.C. McDowell is a Fellow in New America's International Security Program, focus...

1st Lt. Conor McDowell didn’t know he was writing about himself, when he detailed concerns about rollover accidents he was seeing while training at Camp Pendleton.