Physiological Monitoring of the Marine Corps Recruiting Depot-Parris Island, SC Crucible Events
Abstract
The U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM) has been conducting a series of collaborative field research studies to develop real-time non-invasive markers of exertional heat illness and a physiological monitoring system that is both easy to use and provides actionable heat illness risk alerts. As part of this on-going study, in September 2019, a prototype Heat Illness Prevention System (HIPS) was trialed at the Marine Corps Recruiting Depot Parris Island in collaboration with the Branch Health Clinic. From the results of this study, a concept of operations was developed for the real-time monitoring of the heat strain status of Marine recruits during their final Crucible event. In addition, the HIPS hardware algorithms, and supporting applications were revised to enable monitoring at scale to cover a full company of recruits. During the summer of 2021, the upgraded HIPS system was deployed and used to monitor all recruits during nine Crucibles with two objectives: (1) To demonstrate the feasibility and utility of monitoring upwards of 500 recruits during a 56-hour final field training exercise; and (2) to collect baseline physiological and perceptual data to characterize the stresses of the Crucible and capture physiological data of exertional heat illnesses as they occurred.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 27, 2023
- Accession Number
- AD1199011
Entities
People
- Christopher King
- Emma Atkinson
- Kyla Driver
- Lonnie Meyers
- Mark J. Buller
- Mike Termini
- Peter M. Finch
- Timothy Bockelman
- Timothy Mesite