The last of this week’s Army safety posters, today’s selection is the (cropped) top half of a poster detailing the procedures for exiting a Bradley fighting vehicle after it has rolled over. It also demonstrates a couple other things, as well…
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A new post over at the Homeland Security Digital Library weblog points to a new report on securing the bomb – the bomb, as in nuclear – under the fear-inducing title “Nuclear Threat Just a Bomb Away, According to New Report.”

While this is certainly nothing new – the “nuclear threat” is, and has long been, “just a bomb away” – I am, at least, pleased to see that the report, from the Nuclear Threat Initiative, manages to abstain from some of the politically-convenient and completely baseless fearmongering certain other nonproliferation parties engage in. It may waffle a bit in a few places, and accepts unchallenged a number of unverifiable government claims, but it’s generally well-sourced, and refrains, as far as I can tell, from making stuff up, which is always a good sign.

About four months ago, I wrote about the burdens facing recruiters trying to entice the youth of today into military service. If the outlook seemed bleak then, a newer presentation from the Navy (8MB PowerPoint file) identifies, in the best tradition of military analysts the world over, a number of unsettling problems and trends, yet presents no meaningful ideas on how to solve them.
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Following on from yesterday’s Army poster about stupid helicopter pilots, here’s another, part of a safety campaign to teach pilots to watch out for trees. Yes, trees; apparently helicopter-tree contact are a surprisingly common phenomenon – at least, in those parts of the world where they have trees.
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Both in response to criticisms that this website has “been less funny lately than it used to be”, and because the last batch of military posters were so well-received… I’ve got funny and/or stupid Army safety posters on tap for the rest of the week. Today we kick off with some aviation humor, Army style:
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