Title changed to what Mrrzy wanted. (You can PM Joe or any moderators you know.)

As a former 'troop', I don't really care. When I joined, I put my trust in my leaders to not get me shot at for stupid reasons. I could have declined going to Afghanistan or Iraq or anywhere else, but I would have had to face the consequences. In any case, I didn't do it for the thanks, and I always knew that not everybody would be glad I was doing what I did in the military.

About the only people that really get honked off if military people aren't thanked for doing their jobs are civilians and people on the internet who just like getting honked off. Thank cops who do their jobs well. Thank firefighters and emergency medical technicians: most of these guys don't ever do anything that anyone might consider wrong in their routine duties, and they save a lot more lives than military members fighting in wars. If you don't want to thank them it's really not going to make any difference to anything, is it?