[brownsfan]

"A ship, especially a tall-ship, has more way to kill you than you know how to die."

Thank you. I was in the USN from 1977-1981. This was all peacetime, and most people assume I was on a 4 year pleasure cruise. I saw a line snap and kill someone, and we also lost someone over the side. It may not be storming the beaches, but it's always has some danger.
Refueling underway always seems to come at night, during rough seas.

[Doctor Raoul]

What really pisses me off about the liberals and the media is that the deaths you describe are never aknowledged during peacetime, but with the war on in Iraq, they're counting all the non-combat deaths. The number the media uses is 33% inflated. I don't think the guy who got cancer and was evacuated to Rota Spain and then died wants his death used against his comrades.

The military is inherently dangerous and what they do to be ready kills people on a routine basis, yet you can never get a second of time on CNN or a drop of ink from the Washington Post about it.