You know.  Working in the oilfields is dangerous.  But when people compare it to being a soldier.  I want to laugh in their faces.  So they're getting shot at by snipers.  There's IED's on the way to work.  There's a chance of being kidnapped and burned alive in a cage.

A soldier catches sleep when he can.  Sometimes that place is 20 minutes on the ground.  After a batter that's lasted all night. While being bit by sand fleas.  A roughneck usually has a bed to go home to, after a shift.

Working in the oilfields is dangerous. But it's not fighting a war dangerous.  So, stop it.