Assigning either symbol to a variable within a class

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I am currently develoing a flash game and I am trying to spawn 2 different symbols from a class. I have a Class called ‘PLayerClass’, which contains a variable called ‘hero’ which I assign a symbol to. This works fine with 1 symbol but I have no idea or if it is possible to assign a different symbol to the variable ‘hero’. The 2 symbols are ‘soldierOrange’ and ‘soldierGrey’. For both of these symbols I have matching classes (ie. soldierOrange.as).

Basicly, is there a way of assigning either symbol to the same variable ‘hero’ within PLayerClass? Any help would be really apreciated, thanks.

soldierOrange.as

package {
	import flash.display.*;
 
	public class soldierOrange extends Sprite {
 
		public function soldierOrange(pos_X:int, pos_Y:int, pos_R:int):void{
			x = pos_X;
			y = pos_Y;
			rotation = pos_R;
		}
	}
}

PlayerClass.as (I have cut out parts of the code)

public class PlayerClass extends MovieClip  
{ 
	public var hero:soldierOrange;
	...
	
	public function PlayerClass(...playerImage:String...):void{
		...
		this.playerImage = playerImage
		...
	
		if(playerImage == "soldierOrange"){
			hero = new soldierOrange(30, 30, 90);
		}
		else{
			hero = new soldierGrey(660, 660, 270);
		}
	}
		
	public function spawnPlayer(pos_X:int, pos_Y:int, pos_R:int):void{
		hero.x = pos_X;
		hero.y = pos_Y;
		hero.rotation = pos_R;
	}
}