A higher element of risk is surely endemic in Service Personnel. That's what they want in life.
Go and read the report I linked to. If you cannot see the virtue in this sort of effort then you have never held a position of responsibility and, if you have, never took it seriously. If people are at risk of death or injury from something that is avoidable, you work to avoid it. People don't join the Forces because they want a pointless death in a car crash
