I wasn't having a go at the 139, just the type of ops that it's currently being used for, aren't my cup of tea...
Regarding the bus, I guess the mil is a bigger bus! However I thought that there were more of them doing more than pax transport, and you don't have to go to a war zone to fly them, there are quite a few on logging, heavy lifting and fire fighting ops around the world.
If you want to look down instead of straight ahead, then give the Mil a go.
Are there 139's not hauling pax around? I hadn't heard of any of them, and yes sorry I group, SAR, EMS, Offshore, VIP and charter all into pax flying, ie your load for 99.9% of the time is inside the heli, as opposed to lifting operations.