Watchdog finds high rate of serious accidents, lack of oversight, in special operations training

It's not troops getting injured that's surprising. The surprising thing is that so few get injured. They should absolutely work to reduce training accidents. Troops in training need to understand there is risk. One thing we struggled with was getting younger soldiers to approach higher ranking soldiers that were taking unnecessary risk and tactfully going off line to recommend a better practice. The other side of that is the person being approached needs not to see it as a positive and even when the young soldier is mistaken they should be encouraged to continue the effort to keep everyone as safe as possible.