How many military members actually see combat?

Spent a whole deployment as a strictly heavy/severe transport company doing missions in MAXXPRO/HETs/PLS. All 88M. 2013-2014. Traveled all around RC North, bringing anything and everything back to Bagram.

I was PSYOP and we ran with the infantry, as well as other units we supported. So, yes we saw combat. The only thing I did not get shot at with was an RPG. Retired now. I have a buddy at work who was a mechanic in Iraq and ran convoys out to recover broke down and blown up vehicles. They got into fights quite often, as well as IEDs.

Looks like a silly typo: leaving out "not" between "...if you are..." and "...infantry/medic/truck driver..."

Don't know how things are done in todays Army,but in Vietnam the enemy blended in with the locals.So,as a truck driver delivering fuel to wherever a person simply did not know when they were coming under fire.Also as a mechanic recovering a stalled 5000 gal fuel tanker we were fired on several times.Once I approached the gate to our compound,guard told me to take trailer to leak line.We found two bullet holes in the front fuel compartment of the tanker.Direct combat,no but we did get shot at and the enemy simply did not care if we were mechanics truck drivers or infantry.

How the hell did you get to be a recruiter? Who do you think fights a ground war? Do you think medic's are just sitting back at a hospital waiting for all the casualties to come walking in? Where do you think military trucks go, to the PX? THEY ALL GO INTO COMBAT. When am I going to see an important question about our military forces?

I was a Army Medic and a Navy Corpsman. They do definitely see combat if their unit goes, they go too. I can't remember exactly how many Medic to each company or patrol, but line medics are on patrol with them, also. Meaning they may be taking fire as well as the Infantry people.

I've seen combat with 2 X-wives.

The first KIA in Operation Dessert Storm was a USCG Port Security Unit member. An Iraqi commando was attempting to blow an oil platform, when he was caught he blew himself up taking the USCG member with him. If I remember right it was a multi-national team and at least one other was KIA also, but I can't seem to lay my hands on the info right now. The platform was undamaged.

Admittedly few, but I think it's fair to say that often what someone's "paid to do"...and what they do, can be very different things.

Yea, um, no. What exactly did you do before recruiting duty?