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While overall heat illness rates for service members saw a slight decrease in 2025, the most severe form, heat stroke, has increased for the second consecutive year. Defense Health Agency-Public Health experts report that service members under 20 and recruit trainees are at exceptionally high risk. For example, a recruit is nearly 15 times more likely to suffer from heat exhaustion than other enlisted members. (Defense Health Agency-Public Health graphic illustration by Rachel Stershic)
| Date Taken: | 05.11.2026 |
| Date Posted: | 07.01.2026 08:10 |
| Photo ID: | 9783309 |
| VIRIN: | 260511-D-D0514-4591 |
| Resolution: | 1200x725 |
| Size: | 345.08 KB |
| Location: | US |
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This work, Battling the invisible enemy: The rise in severe heat illness, by Douglas Holl, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright.
