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AIDS  FOR  STAYING  AFLOAT
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Basic Military Requirements (BMR) - Requirement for military advancement
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enhance your chances for survival. During wartime, each person aboard ship is issued a life preserver. Wear it or keep it handy at all times. During  peacetime,  life  preservers  are  stowed  in ready-use  lockers.  Know  where  your  preserver  is stowed, how to put it on, and how to release and inflate the lifeboat. Life Preservers The Navy uses two types of life preservers—the inherently  buoyant  and  the  inflatable  types.  The inherently buoyant type has several designs. The vest type is the most widely used. I N H E R E N T LY  BU OYA N T  T Y P E . — T h e inherently buoyant vest type of life preserver (fig. 15-4) uses fibrous glass pads to provide buoyancy. The pads are sealed in plastic waterproof bags placed in an outer 15-5 Student Notes: Figure 15-4.—Adjusting the inherently buoyant vest-type life preserver.







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