Quote Originally Posted by Schmedlap View Post
...But, "sir, they did the same thing we do. They just have better equipment."
and that is just part of it. They're also to an extent at least more trusted to do risky things simply because the death of Joe Tentpeg or even LT Butterbar may arouse a Mother's ire but the death of SFC Rock, SOF warrior is tolerated because he opted for work that was (supposed to be) more dangerous. Plus he's been doing it for a while so the folks at home are hardened a bit in comparison to families of the 'kids.' Add the fact that he's from an organization that gets more training dollars and is smaller so the knowledge of skills is enhanced and thus trust is more willingly given

It isn't more dangerous really. It may be slightly so for a brief period but there's a lot more down time away from troop units so less total exposure in time. Consider then that a great many of your 'kids' had / have more combat time and dare I say combat experience than most of those SOF folks. A number of them have as much or more combat capability also.

We're all supposed to be in this together but we sure weren't back in my day and it seems worse now. Shame.