War or Peace servicemen die. It happens in peace time operations also thats just the risk you take when you sign the paper and raise your right hand.
You know, sailors who served in peacetime, and a good chunk of that in a shipyard, away from the risks of being at sea, should really refrain from lecturing those of us who spent a year in Vietnam about the risks of being in the service. I was fortunate enough to come home unscathed, but I also had several extremely close calls. A lot of folks I know got wounded. A few of my friends came home in metal boxes.
It's one thing to support a robust foreign policy, or to give careful consideration to the consequences of going to war, as I believe Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and others have done.
It's another thing entirely to advocate a policy that would put us as odd-man out in a three-sided war with Iran and Russia--but only after it's "safe" to do so.