Tourist:-
let our military just get on with it.
Couldn't agree more Tourist. Their job is indeed more dangerous than civilian life, but made even more so by VSO's who order that Airworthiness Regulations, eg that ensure that your cab can actually get to close with the enemy without spontaneously exploding on the way there, should not be implemented but signed off as having been so.
The only risk averse that I am aware of are those same people who ensure that they compromise and hence silence their subordinates and unjustly finger others so that they carry the can. Now you may count that as all part of the deal, and no doubt have your own reasons for saying so, but I don't. The cost in blood and treasure over the years has been both great and pointless. It can only be arrested by having independent inguiries, such as FAI's and Coroners', into military aviation deaths, at least until the MAA and the MilAAIB are themselves independent of the MOD and each other.