Do you automatically hold people you find out are in the Army or Marines to "hero" status?

Let us look at a definition of the word:

"A person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life"

However, enlisting could be considered heroic, but once your in, there is a difference between doing your job and being a hero.

A hero is someone who sees a man down 20 yards away and will run to get him while being shot at. A hero is someone like Cpl Jason Dunham who jumped onto a grenade to absorb the blast to save those around him. A hero is Captain Joshua Meadows who exposed himself to heavy enemy fire and saved 1 Marine and 2 ANA commandos. As well as taking out at least 3 Taliban, but then shot and killed on his way back carrying a child who was shot in the leg.

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Yes I do because my Dad was in the 82nd Airborne although he never went over seas he was away from home two weeks at a time! He had to sacrifice time with me, my big brother, and my Mama, so any person who is willing to do that is a hero to me. Any one in the military willingly leaves those they love most to fight for those they don't even know, so yes I consider any soldier a hero.

I dont, AND I WAS IN THE ARMY.. The way I go about it though is by their MOS.. Not to take credit away from everybody else .. But if they were 0300 series in the Marine Corps or 11,19,18 or 91 series in the Army, then I'd say its safe to say they deserve a good recognition. IVE SEEN TO MANY P.O.G.'S IN THE SERVICE THAT LIE ABOUT WHERE THEY'VE BEEN AND DONE. So give it where its due and don't fall for what everyone tells you automatically. *it seems like almost from every story I've heard, we must have "Divisions" of Special Forces" LOL

Service members in the military--regardless of rank, branch, or job specialty--take an oath to uphold the Constitution, follow the orders of the President and officers appointed over them, and defend the country. They suspend many of their rights as citizens in order to serve, and are regularly put in harm's way to protect the lives and rights of those who, more often than not, have no idea what the outside world is really like. They and their families are put through many trials and hardships that most Americans never have to put up with. Many give their lives defending their country, and many more suffer injuries (physical, mental, and emotional) that all-too-often they must bear for the rest of their lives. They must put up with long hours, lost sleep, poor living conditions, extreme temperatures, prolonged stress, mental anguish, years away from home and family, and people who hate them both at home and abroad (many of the latter who try anything they can to kill them).

I would thus answer your question this way:

If you yourself have never served, never had the courage to sacrifice your own wants and needs, your time, your rights, to defend something bigger than yourself, for years at a time... you ought to see those who DO as heroes.

If you yourself HAVE served, you would understand all of the things I have mentioned, and would see others who have endured the same hardships (or are currently enduring them) as heroes.

Each individual service member may or may not deploy, may or may not have the chance to show valor in combat, may or may not have a 'glorious' job (or more mundane one). Either way, as an individual you don't really get to choose where you go or what mission is given to you; you're simply expected to accomplish that mission. While the military DOES recognize individual achievement and encourage it, the jobs and accomplishments of anyone and everyone in the service is meant for the function of the whole.

That's why when you DO hear about the valorous actions of one service member or another, it's always in the interests of achieving the mission and protecting others, not done for personal gain or glory.

Everyone who serves, or has served, honorably ought to be seen rightfully as a hero.

If someone puts their life on the line for their country they would most definitly be a hero.....A hero is someone who puts others above themselves and would give their life to save anothers...Anyone who doesnt see it that way just has a blurry mind..

I'd say you can't really call someone a "hero" without knowing what they did during their time of service. I don't put people wearing uniform in an automatic hero status because you don't know their personality nor their reasons for joining the service.

Absolutely not! In my book a hero is someone who has in fact done something above what an ordinary person would do. I do not mean just by you joining when others don't that you went above. Some of us just answer the call, and the others never heard it. Google heroes and I don't think you will come up with millions of names and stories.

I SAY ANYONE IN UNIFORM IS A HERO BECAUSE I DONT SEE YOU OUT THERE DOING IT CAUSE YOU SCARED