>Now I see your logic. Reading your posts, I misunderstood and took you to imply that the military is the most dangerous job in America. I agree with Beth - unless we are involved in major combat, percentages alone prove that inaccurate. I will also state that in most cases, I truly believe that most soldiers are better trained than any other field. I write that because soldiers perform the tasks involved in their jobs (mos) or even basic soldier skills over and over ad naseum until they can do it in their sleep (which may very well be necessary if involved in a conflict and you haven't slept for 36 hours) and THAT saves lives.

I'm still of the opinion that the lists presented do not include the military as a "job".
If they happen to include the military then there must be some additional qualifiers (like maybe 'within the U.S.' or 'as a result of accident' for example).

Despite all the training, the military is known to be dangerous even in peace time. Accidents killing/hurting military personnel happen very frequently.

Last Sunday 60 minutes had a segment on the medical efforts made to save the lives of wounded military personnel. The entire 'mechanism' (for lack of a better word) is truly amazing, from extraction from the combat area to shipping back to the U.S. It was said that death rates would be far far higher were it not for the concerted efforts of all the people/equipment dedicated to saving each casualty. They are even equipped to operate on people as they are transported between Iraq/Gernamy or Germany/U.S. and do so regularly, apparently. By the way, they also tend to civilian casualties in exactly the same manner.


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>>You said this:
>>"the military is no more dangerous than MOST other professions"
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>>Of course there are other gigs that are more dangerous - but MOST other professions are not.
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>>>Have you looked at the internet for dangerous jobs? I did a google and found 2 different sites that list 10 of the most hazardous jobs.
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>>>http://money.cnn.com/2003/10/13/pf/dangerousjobs/
>>>http://www.forbes.com/2002/09/03/0903worksafe.html
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>>>how many jobs other then the military have over 1 million (not sure of the exact number) employed at the same time? Timber cutters lost 84 out of 100,000 in 2002.
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>>>>You said this:
>>>>"the military is no more dangerous than most other professions"
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>>>>I'm not sidestepping anything by saying I think you're wrong and that is ridiculous. (yeah my spelling stinks...heh)
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>>>>What other professions here in the USA lost 105 people last month due to the nature of the job, hummm? I assure you that "most other professions" did not loose 105 people due to the nature of their job. What does this have to do with driving your car? ...unless you're a truck driver or something....
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>>>>>Again, without side-stepping the argument:
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>>>>>Statistics show that you have a greater chance of being killed or seriously injured by driving your car than you do by being in the military. Therefore, driving is more dangerous than being in the military.
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>>>>>P.S. The word is "ridiculous"
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>>>>>>>Tamar:
>>>>>>>... the military is no more dangerous than most other professions.....
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>>>>>>That's ridicilious.