[Brian_K_White]

People joke about "safety third" but I've always thought that was literally about right. It's a higher priority than many other considerations, but it's no way the highest priority. Doing or having something at all absolutely comes before having it in safety and comfort.

[salawat]

All fun and games til you realize you lose more servicemen & women to mishaps than you do to enemy combatants. Which is a factual reality the military has to deal with. Safety isn't a joke, and no, your safety officer isn't going to be getting on your ass with the Hun at the gates, but after a certain point, you have to temper get-there-itis unless you want to hemorrhage manpower to mishap related casualties.