Inside Camp Bastion.

[Stealhead]

You guys are misunderstanding my meaning it is clear.I don't need examples I served and was also in Afghanistan for a TDY.I am fully aware that the "enemy is everywhere" but there is a difference between someone who is only on occasion exposed to actual combat and one whose duty is strictly to engage the enemy and nothing else.So I am sorry to tell you that a combat engineer who must go out every day and seek out enemy IEDs all the while risking getting hit by an IED or getting ambushed by the enemy ans someone who is say a mechanic who might on occasion have to face an attack both deal with stresses this is ture and both are in a combat zone this is true as well but one is exposed far more often than the other and that is different.This is not opinion to me it is fact.In war zones there are differing levels of risk to lump them as all being the same is unfair to the ones at the top of the pyramid (the ones most heavily exposed to
danger IE a direct combatant).

You are sitting here trying to tell me that I was in as great of danger as a person out in the field on a combat mission was in Afghanistan that simply is not correct.The entire time I was there the base I was on was never attacked in anyway what so ever.Yet men in infantry units died or where wounded every single day while nothing happened to myself or anyone else while on the confines of the airbase.