By the Numbers: 9 December 2019
~2,800
The number of Service members who "suffered illnesses from dehydration to heat stroke last year" due to high temperatures, according to a recent article in Military Times -- How rising temps could cause even more heat casualties at military bases. The article, reporting on a recent study, said that number "is 50 percent higher than it was five years earlier...and will only get worse as global temperatures continue to rise."
The military’s hottest bases clock in at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, and Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, and they could be staring down four months a year where the heat index tops 100 degrees.
~2,800
The number of Service members who "suffered illnesses from dehydration to heat stroke last year" due to high temperatures, according to a recent article in Military Times -- How rising temps could cause even more heat casualties at military bases. The article, reporting on a recent study, said that number "is 50 percent higher than it was five years earlier...and will only get worse as global temperatures continue to rise."
The military’s hottest bases clock in at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, and Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, and they could be staring down four months a year where the heat index tops 100 degrees.