<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Plato90s:
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.</font>
Let's tell that to our Vietnam veterans. Give me a break!