I'd be willing to go over, but not unarmed. I see pictures of some folks from the Army outfit I support. They go over for around 6 months as "survey" teams. Mixed teams of military and DA civilians. The civilians are sometimes shown wearing ACUs, but never armed. I want to be able to shoot back!.
My nephew was over there. All over there, "there" being Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan and everywhere in that area with Army personnel stationed. Not sure just what he was doing. He's an E7, reservist, an has been back over a year now.
I'm on a miliary-civilian mixed team and we leave the FOB a few times a week. I am armed as are all of the civilians mixed up in this mission. I wouldn't go where we go unarmed.