Nice non-answer. Which is it, safe and sound or out there?
Safe and sound IMHO.
For me I will tell one story of what happened "out there". I was in TAC with an F4 unit somewhere in Europe during an alert. We were deployed from our regular location. Quck turnaround on a Jet engine pull. Witnessed first hand a GE-79J fall onto an A1C. (Hoist mount broke) Not a hope surviving that. I knew her personally. That sight still haunts my memories. :-(