Boring?

My eldest son is currently 3 months into his second tour of Iraq, only 12 more to go. I was chatting with him awhile ago online with one of those Instant Messenger services. Its amazing that such close contact can be maintained with a soldier who is deployed to an active war zone! Unprecedented, and I venture to posit, historic in its magnitude. More about that some other time though. My chat with him was rather short and superficial in its entirety. This isn't really a bad thing, inasmuch that other than classified events that he is prohibited from talking about, a lack of noteworthy events in a war zone is fantastic. He, of course, has far more to chat with to his friends his own age, than to dear old Dad. This bothers me not at all, and is normal and expected.
What is noteworthy is the lack of significant events. Who ever heard of fighting a war thousands of miles from home, surrounded on all sides by hostile forces and nations, and not having something to talk about? Its similar to having a factory job, boring and routine, yet this is a war.
Now don't get me wrong, I know over 3000 Americans have fallen during the last 4 years, and I mourn the loss of these brave soldiers. But as I was pointing out to my soldier son awhile back, more Americans died as a result of alcohol related traffic incidents in the first 3 months of the year, than during 4 years of war.
If the rest of his deployment is this uneventful, I will consider it a roaring success.