Motorcycles Claim More Marine Lives Than Combat in Iraq

Motorcycle accidents have allegedly taken more Marine lives in the last 12 months than enemy fire in Iraq, according to a recent report on CNN. Twenty-five Marines have suffered from fatal accidents in motorcycle crashes since November 2007. It was also noted that all but one of them involved sport bikes. In that same time period, 20 Marines have been lost their lives while on active duty in Iraq.

Perhaps these brave men and women aren’t exercising the same care at home as they do in battle by wearing the proper gear or abating that itchy trigger finger. Who knows.

Thankfully the Marine Corps are taking action. Although they have policy in place previously that all Marines who ride motorcycles must take a mandatory basic riding course, more recently they added a second more advanced training course specifically designed to train Marines who ride sport bikes.

Although these 25 deaths are the highest motorcycle death toll ever for the Marine Corps, it is clearly a statistic that Marine officials, or all of us for that matter, would not like to see rise any higher.

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By Dustin Woods