It's too bad that there is no way to put the people who are so quick to try to diminish the actions of these brave soldiers into a similar situation to see how they react. I would be willing to bet everything I have that MOST of them would hunker down behind something and hope for someone else to take care of it. I spent my time as a grunt in an infantry platoon in Nam. You never know how you will react until that time comes. I would much rather be in a firefight with the other guys using automatic weapons than to be in the crap that is going on over in Iraq with the IED's. The most scared I ever was, was in a rocket attack at a resupply camp we stopped at for the night. All you could do was hunker down and wait as they came screaming down.Give me the jungle any time. The bravest people I ever saw were the helicopter pilots who came in to lift out the wounded or bring resupply while the bullets were still flying everywhere. Even at night it is impossible to hide a chopper with a landing light on that has to sit there while you load/unload. If any of you were one of these, you are my hero and always will be. I was lifted off myself.