What’s a hero?

[Soaring Eagle 74]

It takes heroism just to join the armed forces, knowing you could get KIA.

It takes even more to engage in combat.

More still to fly a fighter in combat (just my opinion).

It certainly takes a great deal of heroism to remain with your brothers in arms when offered a release from capture.

It takes none at all to get a draft deferments (Clinton, Cheney, Trump).

 

[Airport]

It takes heroism just to join the armed forces, knowing you could get KIA.

It takes even more to engage in combat.

More still to fly a fighter in combat (just my opinion).

It certainly takes a great deal of heroism to remain with your brothers in arms when offered a release from capture.

It takes none at all to get a draft deferments (Clinton, Cheney, Trump).

It takes more guts to get into hand to hand combat. Pilots never experience killing up close and personal. 90% of the armed forces do not see combat. It takes 9 support personnel for every one in combat.

 

[79eer]

It takes heroism just to join the armed forces, knowing you could get KIA.

It takes even more to engage in combat.

More still to fly a fighter in combat (just my opinion).

It certainly takes a great deal of heroism to remain with your brothers in arms when offered a release from capture.

It takes none at all to get a draft deferments (Clinton, Cheney, Trump).

Where does the “Village” part come in?

 

[WVU82_rivals]

 

[Soaring Eagle 74]

It takes more guts to get into hand to hand combat. Pilots never experience killing up close and personal. 90% of the armed forces do not see combat. It takes 9 support personnel for every one in combat.

“Hand-to-handcombat (sometimes abbreviated as HTH or H2H) is a lethal or nonlethal physical confrontation between two or more persons at very short range (grappling distance) that does not involve the use of firearms or other distance weapons.”

Do our forces do much of this in actual combat, or are you perhaps misusing the term?

It may just reflect my ignorance on military matters, but I wonder if hand to hand combat (without firearms) is actually fairly rare for US forces. Close quarter battle with firearms seems like it would be more common.

 

[WVU82_rivals]

Defense of Little Round Top | American Battlefield Trust - Civil War Trust
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/defense-little-round-top
The regiment's sudden, desperate bayonet charge blunted the Confederate ..... After Chamberlain ordered Bayonet, the Union line hesitated until Melcher ...


Chamberlain's bayonet charge at Little Round Top won the Civil War...

Make a trip there, you might start to understand that this is a great nation.

 

[va87eer]

It's hard to imagine what it takes to stay with your brothers while being tortured rather than going to the front of the line and getting out. Everyone has a breaking point but the brave men who are able to handle this unimaginable situation have earned our ultimate respect.

 

[Airport]

“Hand-to-handcombat (sometimes abbreviated as HTH or H2H) is a lethal or nonlethal physical confrontation between two or more persons at very short range (grappling distance) that does not involve the use of firearms or other distance weapons.”

Do our forces do much of this in actual combat, or are you perhaps misusing the term?

It may just reflect my ignorance on military matters, but I wonder if hand to hand combat (without firearms) is actually fairly rare for US forces. Close quarter battle with firearms seems like it would be more common.

Infantry experience it personally. Pilots from above.

 

[WVU82_rivals]

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