My father was in Vietnam. In addition to his personal accounts, I've read quite a bit on the subject. I know that those guys were sent into ridiculous circumstances. I haven't read much about the conflicts of the last two decades, however. But don't get me wrong, my cousin was a marine in Iraq, and I do not consider anything that these guys are going through to be easier, or even less trying than what these pilots did. It just seems a different type of warfare as of late, -a different kind of engagement. Not trying to belittle anything that anyone has been through at all. I am just under the impression that the military hasn't had to knowingly put soldiers into such desperate circumstances as a matter of course in the last actions. I do need to read about Afghanistan, however.