How about we just agree that both military and civilian occupations can both equally include dangerous tasks and/or spending time away from home?
Absolutely not, there's not a long list of civilian occupations that require the worker to fill out a cheque made payable to the community for a sum of up to and including his/her life. All civilian jobs have the protection of OH & S, absolutely no protection in the military. A civvy can certainly spend time away from home in rotten places, but they do it by choice, a little different to a government deciding to send troops into a conflict, and the unrelenting grind the current folks are doing by way of the number of rotations.
Peacetime a job in the military is no different to many civvy jobs, truck driver, office worker etc etc but put them in a combat zone then all caveats are off, they're in the front line and not knowing if the community gets to cash that cheque. Cue me a civvy job that can impose the stress of a jet night carrier landing. For your info it can be greater than the actual combat part.
The damn RSL wouldn't allow Vietnam guys to join because they hadn't been to a real war. Community respect for the troops? Not even an organisation of ex vets was willing to respect troops coming home. What's your point indeed.