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How to sell brash young warriors, primed for bullets and bombs, on the mundane merits of seat belts and safety goggles and look-before-you-leap?

The Navy's safety team has a battle plan: Skip the platitudes in favor of telling sailors' and pilots' true stories about bang-ups and blunders, from the comic to the tragic.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGANVYA3WFD.html
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I've seen the poster showing the finger with all the meat torn off. Definitely gets your attention.
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(gasp)What...a...goldmine...of...."Photo Gallery" board...pictures, including some I've already seen on snopes.

Here is a link to the main picture archive:
http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/photo/archive.htm

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[Old salt story ahead warning]

Back when I was in the Navy (early 90s...*all* of the early 90s), we had weekly safety bulletin messages that we read at quarters (or at least selected ones). Whomever was writing them was a literary genius; they were entertaining as well as educational. And, I still remember that each week, there was another accident with Fix-A-Flat...Good times...

But the pictures work better, I would think.

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