It's an ambiguous issue for me, someone who didn't serve and didn't want to serve, I think there are better things to do than getting shot at, whether you're a royal or not. Yeah, we humans make it look all noble and brave to "fight for your country" but IMO he is fighting for another country there as the existance of his country isn't really at stake (in that case I might just fight as well myself).
And while that may offend some, I think calling every soldier a hero just underlines what HoreTore said, if we have to lower the "standards" for heroism to signing a piece of paper and surviving basic training then we're just a bunch of *******.

Now on the other hand, I like the idea that we go to Afghanistan to help the people there and I think that's a pretty noble thing to do (no heroism yet), the only problem being that we didn't care about them before their overlords decided to hide someone who wants to get us out of our misery by bombing us.

On another thought, the fact that we talk about this particular soldier going to war only because of who his mom and dad are could be said to be quite telling about how we still don't see all (wo)men as equals today.#

Have a nice day.