Military Training

DOD Training Fatalities for Fiscal Years 1988 Through 1991 Gao ID: NSIAD-92-213FS July 22, 1992

Some military training to prepare troops for combat involves safety risks. GAO's analysis of Defense Department data shows that 752 active duty military personnel died while engaging in peacetime training during fiscal years 1988-91. These fatalities, representing 19 percent of all accidental deaths in the military services during those years, resulted from a variety of circumstances; aviation mishaps, however, accounted for 484, or about 64 percent, of these deaths.

GAO found that, during FY 1988 through 1991: (1) there were 6,833 acitve duty military deaths, including 3,941 accidental deaths; (2) there were 1,524 accidental deaths in the Army, 654 in the Air Force, 1,223 in the Navy and 540 in the Marines; (3) 752 active duty military personnel died during peacetime training; and (4) 484 peacetime training deaths were related to aviation accidents.



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