Thank You for Your Service Deglamorizes Modern Warfare

I get why actors like to play soldiers in movies. It’s hard not to look good in a uniform. You get to stare into the middle distance and clench your jaw the way badasses do. You get to swing around prop guns and yell things like “Get down!” and “Cover me!” Maybe it’s not exactly realistic, but realism is rarely an equal partner in the relationship between movies and the military.