Military personnel are killed virtually every week regardless of whether they're in the US or overseas. They get killed in training accidents. They die in plane crashes. They die by falling off of ships. They die in many often gruesome ways. It comes with the uniform, especially when you mix teenagers with live ammo and high explosives. Perhaps if you'd ever spent some time in uniform, you'd know this simple but brutal fact. If you'd like to actually learn something instead of continually proving your ignorance, you might want to read <a href="http://web1.whs.osd.mil/mmid/m07/dec97cas.pdf>Worldwide US Active Duty Military Personnel Casualties: October 1979 through December 1997. Check the table on page 5 and you'll see that for that period, a total of 18,650 US active duty personnel were killed in accidents, 1,739 were victims of homocide, and 4,262 died of self-inflicted injuries. This is compared to 560 "hostile" (combat or terrorism related) deaths, with almost half of those deaths coming from the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1984.

Want more recent numbers? Check out US Active Duty Military Deaths - 1980 through 2002. In 2000, 400 personnel died in accidents compared to 17 killed by hostile action(terrorist attack on the USS Cole). In 2001, 422 died in accidents compared to 55 killed by terrorists in the 9-11 attack on the Pentagon. In 2002, 538 died in accidents compare to 17 killed by hostile action.

It's a good thing that non-thinking whiners like you and Don weren't around in WWII. Official death counts for that war were 405,399 died in service, with battle deaths totalling 291,557 and 113,842 being "other deaths." This was over a period of about 45 months. Over 116,000 personnel died in a span of less than 20 months in WWI.

How could you have faced thousands of deaths in a single engagement like Tarawa, Iwo Jima, and Omaha Beach without complaining that the war wasn't over by June of 1942 and people were still dying? How could you have handled it when US personnel were still being killed in 1946 and even later on some of the formerly Japanese held islands in the Pacific?

Or how about Korea, where 33,741 personnel were killed in action, died of wounds, were MIA and declared dead, or captured and declared dead (about 25% of US POWs died in captivity during the Korean War).

Or how about Vietnam with 47,413 hostile deaths and 10,785 non-hostile deaths?

Your gross ignorance of military history is showing once again. It's really rather pathetic. I feel sorry for you.