See this guy http://www.odmp.org/officer/19442-police-officer-richard-m-francis He was my partner. He mowed down all kinda commies on a 'nam river boat and he ended up dieing when a woman got his gun and blew his face off.
You think your in total control but your not. And you sure as hell dont impress anyone with any sense or experience. You'd be much more cynical if you did and you sure as hell wouldnt talk about it.
Finally, something from Rich I completely agree with. Life is strange, and although you can manage risk to the absolute best of your ability - in hindsight - you can never factor out random occurrences or just "bad days". My best friend was a scout sniper with the USMC right at the pointy end of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and had already spent time in Afghanistan prior to that. He had dozens and dozens of engagements, been in hundreds of gunfights, and was one of the best guys I've ever operated with, and went through my instructor rating courses at SigSauer Academy with him. A very, very tough operator. I also worked in the same private military company with him.
He was very switched on, not the type of guy you would expect to make a mistake and put himself in a vulnerable position, but he did one day, after surviving a half dozen trips into the mid east in the most dangerous places on earth, he stepped into a bad spot and got clipped by a drunk driver while on a stop in California with the CHP, where he took work after retiring from our business. He just went to a place he was trained not to, and that day the risk management ran out on him, and there was a moving car coming at him. The driver was drunk, but still in his lane when he struck Brent. Even though it was the drunk drivers fault, it was a preventable incident, and shouldn't have happened the way it did. That's the hardest part to swallow. The toughest and most experienced among us can and do still make mistakes, and sometimes pay for them.
http://www.odmp.org/officer/18422-officer-brent-william-clearman