Fox,
I read your other post so I think I know the crews you are referring to and you are quite correct with your assertions but their task/tasking was very very different to the day to day stuff the rest of us mere mortals do.
Without some sort of crew duty/rest considerations the daily scheduled tasking we do would never be achieved, but the guys you worked with did not have the same schedule based constraints and were therefore able to react to their "users" needs in the thoroughly professional way the did and still do.
The natural assumption is that they do all the dangerous stuff and the rest of us haul trash and in the main that is a fair conclusion as they go to some very dodgy places indeed, however consider the loss last year of the Herc in Herrick and the recent loss of another in Telic and you will see that there is always danger lurking round the corner irrespective of your type or specialisation.
You like so many others in here have allowed journalistic license to cloud your judgment and I will not waste my time trying to dissuade you however I would offer my kids into Arab slavery if you actually met her and within 5 minutes hadn't realised what a crock of sh1t the article written about her is
