---
title: "Well, this new Army PSA on household safety took a dark turn"
date: "2019-02-14"
modified: "2019-02-14"
authors:
  - name: "Jared Keller"
    job_title: "Former Managing Editor"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/jaredkeller/"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-household-safety-psa/"
categories:
  - "Culture"
  - "Mandatory Fun"
  - "Tactics"
  - "Tech & Tactics"
  - "Training"
---

# Well, this new Army PSA on household safety took a dark turn

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/19194275-1.jpg>)

Ah yes, Valentine's Day, yet another glorious opportunity to remind the world that even the might American warfighter is no match for household chores.

On Tuesday, the official Twitter account of the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service [decided](<https://twitter.com/DVIDSHub/status/1095348745191985153>) that the impending annual celebration of love would be a great time to [remind](<https://twitter.com/DVIDSHub/status/1095348745191985153>) U.S. service members of the importance of safety. And what better way to do that than with a cheeky PSA from your friends at the U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center?

https://twitter.com/DVIDSHub/status/1095348745191985153

This is good! Department of Defense PSAs can be terrifically boring or egregiously awkward, and there's nothing wrong with a little humor to lighten up an otherwise drab briefing.

And then this happened:

Dafuq?

Setting aside the [tired trope of the idiot husband](<https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jaime-zucker/retire-the-bumbling-husband_b_5602054.html>), more than1,650 U.S. troops have lost a limb during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001, [according](<https://www.stripes.com/2016-marks-first-year-without-combat-amputation-since-afghan-iraq-wars-began-1.459288#.WNACJHTyvBI>) to Stars & Stripes. In fact, 2016 was the first year since the start of the Global War on Terror when the U.S. military achieved a combat amputation rate of zero.

Ha ha ha! Stupid husbands!

### SEE ALSO: This Navy Anti-Marijuana PSA Is A Great Reminder Of How Uncool Navy Is, Bro

## Author
Jared Keller is the former managing editor of Task & Purpose. His writing has appeared in Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New Republic, Pacific Standard, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post, among other publications.

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