Tony Schumacher: As the driver of the championship winning US Army race team, we've shown that we can put together one of the best cars on the track. However, that doesn't mean that accidents can't happen. There are a lot of things that are in place to make sure that if it does, we are as prepared as possible.

Let's start at the back of the car - we have a wheelie bar. These cars accelerate from zero to 100 MPH in 8/10 of one second. The car wants to flip over - it's doing everything it can. This wheelie bar keeps the car straight. We have two parachutes we can deploy off a button in the cockpit. We put on these simple little straps - you don't even see them - you don't even know that they're there... but what happens - if the wing comes off, this will pull this handle and yank the parachutes out.

The inside of the car we have extremely good solid foam padding for our helmets to keep drivers from getting basal skull fractures - our head's vibrating - and we've molded the inside of this car to my body. The front wing flips down 2000 pounds of down force to keep this car on the ground - when it's trying to go up and over the back. In a nutshell - those are many of the precautions we have taken - and believe it or not - there are about a thousand more I didn't mention. But those are the ones you can look at and visually see very easily.

When I get in the car, we'll put the seatbelt over the top of this. Then in an impact, when the seatbelt stops and my head wants to go forward, it will get stopped and keep my head from breaking my neck. I wear a mouth guard for my teeth, we have fireproof underwear - the firesuit itself can burn for two minutes without even feeling heat. Fireproof shoes - a seven-point seatbelt... two arm restraints and a neck restraint - and believe me, if they could figure out a way to superglue me in there, I'm all for it.

And the next time you are thinking about your family member, friend, or anyone that you may know serving our country - you can trust that the Army has equipped our soldiers with the most advanced technology in the world. Protecting them better than ever before.