You are well aware of the dangers as you stated and you volunteer to do this but it is not the US military’s job to bail you out if you’re taken hostage.
If the US government sends you in for whatever reason and you’re taken hostage then using the military to get you out is a completely different story.
As for humanitarian work.. why not help those in your own back yard?
“As for humanitarian work.. why not help those in your own back yard?”
The “poor” in my backyard are very wealthy in comparison to those we work with overseas.
Our first Christmas as a married couple we went to the welfare department in Chicago and got the names of three families needing help.
One woman & her son actually needed help, one family was doing OK and the third was far more wealthy than we. That family wanted us to buy bicycles for their kids. They told us this while we were standing in their living room with the huge beveled glass mirror over the fireplace and a large console color TV in the corner. This was 1971 when a large color TV cost $500-$600 (over $2600 in today’s dollars). All three families were classed as “poor” by the City of Chicago.
I was making $2.75/hr pumping gas at the time. Not too bad for 1971.
On the other issue, I never said that it was the military’s job to rescue me. It has been an established American mission to deal with piracy ever since Lt. Presley O’Bannon visited the “Shores of Tripoli” in 1805.