Lesley Stahl speaks with parents of service members killed in training and reports on why so many vehicle training accidents occur in the U.S. armed forces.
Last month, two Marines were killed and 17 injured – not in war, but in transit: their truck flipped over on a highway outside of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. And it's not as uncommon as you'd think. We found that as a parent or partner of someone in the military, you're far likelier to get that dreaded"call" and learn your loved one was killed in an accident, rather than in combat. And many - far too many - of the accidents involve armored vehicles during training.
Peter Ostrovsky: So they're sitting in a parking lot on Camp Pendleton baking in the sun. They're deteriorating. Peter Ostrovsky: A week prior to the mission, we were speaking on the telephone. And he made the comment that"AAVs sink all the time." They've called them, and he called it a"floating coffin."Two AAVs broke down and their sons' designated vehicle sprang an engine leak. And yet the mission was not aborted.
Peter Ostrovsky: The top-down incompetence, the lack of readiness, Really the lack of duty of care for our sons-- it was shocking.Peter Vienna: There's the Feres doctrine - makes that impossible. His left leg had to be amputated above the knee.The right leg was so badly damaged, he spent the next two years in rehab, learning how to walk again.
But there are more steps the military could take that they haven't, involving relatively inexpensive upgrades to the vehicle involved in most accidents: the Humvee. But watch: drivers could have a better chance when Humvees are retrofitted with IMMI's restraints and airbags.
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