a425couple wrote:

Brian Golder
Former Infantry at U.S. Marine Corps (1984–1988)26m ago

Where is the most dangerous place to be deployed as an
American soldier today?
Stateside. Although troops in Iraq have come under increasing
enemy attacks, US Forces have been out of major combat for some
time now. Most military deaths over the last decade are stateside
off duty.

Well, for those who remember that time, when the US invaded Iraq in 2003, losses
in the military went DOWN for several months.

Because the military confrontation with the Iraqi army caused fewer deaths than the accidents did stateside, with drunken or speed driving and such.

It's not what the lefties like to publicize, but it's true.
To me, the big learning is that the grass-root enlisted ranks are basically not-so-swift yahoos who need to be kept busy.

Idle hands, workshop of the devil, nyah nyah nyah...

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