Take the picture off, please.
As of now, you are more likely to take the Middle East if you are Army or Marines, the two wars sugar-coat nothing. Airforce, Navy and National Guard, you will see the Middle East if are needed or your job requires you to be there. If you are infantry or ground assisted personnel of any kind, you will most likely see danger face to face if you are serving in the Middle East.
I.e., if you think you're going to 'medic' your way through the Army in combat-free-zones, that's obviously a misperception. You could be ordered to front-line-assist with recon and infantry to fight underground tomb-labyrinths that terrorists know better than anyone on Earth. You step out of the convoy, terrorists can smell enemy troops a block away. Expect rockets flying out of those tunnels? Hell yes...
If you are thinking about enlisting, the Marines no longer offer the popular 2 year "stay if you like it program" that everyone has been talking about for the past few decades. If you want to stay home, enlist in the reserves, but you are not ever promised non-deployment.
If you are afraid of dying in the Middle East? Just about nothing guarantees 100% safety. You are trained to fight, trained for your job and will await deployment to anywhere in the world you are called to serve.
And if you're hungry for military dicipline, but too chicken to enlist? Run 4 hours every morning, nonstop without resting, and no water in between. Join a martial arts club and get your tan belt. Memorize the M-16 components, go swimming for an entire week, nonstop and memorize the ranks. Basic stuff to incept your brain, then go to college and graduate, it will resemble advanced training in job class.