A pilot program to make the big, heavy military vehicles safer for Marines and soldiers to ride in was recently introduced in Congress; it is named for 1st Lt. Conor McDowell, who died when the vehicle he was in overturned during training at Camp Pendleton.
“We always trained very hard following the motto ‘hard training, easy war,’ but what we are currently doing is retraining ourselves to face an enemy with the same capacities as we have,” French Army Brig. Gen. Eric Ozanne, the LAB commander, told Breaking Defense.