horse vs military personnel

horse and military personnel both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
horse	Yes	No	Yes	No
military personnel	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, military personnel is a hypernym of horse; that is, military personnel is a word with a broader meaning than horse:

Other hypernyms of horse include soldiery, troops.

horse (noun)	military personnel (noun)
solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times	soldiers collectively
a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)	someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force
a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
troops trained to fight on horseback

horse (verb)	military personnel (verb)
provide with a horse or horses