That makes the very occasional moments of fierce, furious action even more endorphin-packed.
But I interviewed many soldiers who had seen fierce action in Vietnam.
It is an unexpectedly fierce action by a group long considered a union in name only, whose sole act of defiance in its 56-year history was a one-day walkout in 1992.
Breymann was killed in the fierce action, and his position was taken.
On the coast the 52nd (Lowland) Division was fought a fierce action after crossing the Wadi el Hesi on the coast north of Gaza.
On 6 7 June, B Squadron was involved in a fierce action during the Battle of Binh Ba, a village 5 km north of Nui Dat.
He recounts the battle inside the Clinton administration, where he was a Gulf analyst at the National Security Council, between the doves who did not want Iraq to deflect attention from America's wider post-cold-war agenda, and the hawks who argued for fiercer action to keep Mr Hussein in his box of arms inspections and sanctions, or for removing Saddam altogether.
They didn't have the regulatory powers that would have enabled fiercer action and, sadly, their great and silvery wisdom had a blind spot: they couldn't quite imagine how dumb other people were.
Mr Cheney, in particular, is fighting a fierce rearguard action.
His troops fought a fierce delaying action until April 9 , 1942 and remnants, led by Lieutenant General Jonathan M. Wainwright, escaped to Corregidor Island, where they surrendered about a month later.
