<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by RW:
Let's net get ridiculous. Putting their life on the line everyday? They are Flight Attendants and Pilots not Special Forces Soldiers...
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Actually, a F/A or a pilot is more likely to get injured or killed in the line of duty than a soldier in special forces.
A subway police in NYC is more likely to be killed in the line of duty than a special forces soldier.
Ask any soldier who belongs in one of our elite units [Rangers, Green beret, etc..] and you'd find out that most of what they do is train and wait. More people get killed in traning accidents than on a mission, and many soldiers leave their unit having never been deployed anywhere close to a combat zone.
Like the Secret Service, it's actually a very safe profession.