For Our Next Trick....

Vehicle Rollover Training!

So, the day after battling my comrades in Hand-to-Hand combat, we got the opportunity to acquire new bruises (and find undiscovered ones from yesterday).

They put us in a simulated Hummer, then rolled it over. Now, it might not look to hard, right? Just unbuckle the seatbelt and climb out.

But, when you undo the seatbelt, you fall on your head, and remember, we have our very heavy bullet proof vests on, so we fall with much velocity and inertia. That is the scenerio when the hummer is 180 degrees upside down.

But we also got to roll over...over...over beyond 180 and over to our side. This is real fun for those on the drivers side. Now when they undo their seatbelts, they fall even farther than when upside-down, and if they don't time it right, they land smack on those in the passenger seats. Talk about a tangle of soldier arms and legs.

Here are the subjects for this first iteration (four per vehicle) and the view of the device in its normal rightside-up position. The box on top is for the door gunner hatch.




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Here we are rolling to the 180 degree position.

BTW, you can see the operator has screens providing views inside the vehicle via cameras to ensure safety.





Exiting at 180 degrees.....




Now, the 270 exit.
This time the vehicle rolls upside-down, and continues to roll onto its side.

This makes for a long drop when the left seaters unbuckle.

The Army has made this training mandatory for all deploying soldiers, as they were getting injured and killed trying to get out of wrecked vehicles.