Safety Awareness Dispatch
SA 26-13 Tactical Vehicle Mishaps III
The U.S. military has a broad assortment of tactical vehicles at its disposal to fill a variety of mission sets. These vehicles range from massive transportation vehicles like the Logistics Vehicle System Replacement (LVSR) to the smaller mobile Utility Task Vehicles (UTV). Whatever these vehicle sizes, capabilities or uses, one thing remains common between them all, our ability to cause mishaps with them. The following preventable mishaps occurred because personnel didn’t respect the risks in tactical vehicle operations.
| Published: | June 2, 2026 |
The Safety Awareness team creates concise, readable (and sometimes funny) safety lessons to help Sailors, Marines and civilian employees (and their families) avoid repeating a mishap. Our goal is to make people think! We do our best to tell a story that people will remember – that they’ll recall when going through their normal day – that empowers them to identify hazards, accept “ownership” and responsibility for those hazards (in their community, command, and home), and take action.
