Are you serious? The first thing you learn in any basic training in any branch of the military is that it's a selfless service. Why the hell do you need to be appreciated or even acknowledged by anyone? Moreover, why the hell are you asking to be acknowledged for a service you volunteered for? It's not like you were drafted and had no choice. Appreciated for what? For deploying for 9-12 months and then coming back home for a year if not longer? If anyone bearing a uniform should be appreciated, it should be cops, they step in the line of fire every single time they put on that uniform where as the only time military steps in the line of fire is when they go to war which isn't an every day thing and if you happen to go to war and you are lucky enough to come back, you get a nice long year break(8months at best) of not having to get shot at. Put on the damn broadsword shader and call it a day. If that's not good enough, put on your uniform and walk through an airport. You'll get all the attention you desire. Edit: before anyone starts going apeshit saying my post is rude and that I should join and walk a mile in their shoes, I have, multiple miles in fact. Two 13 month deployments to Afghanistan with a airborne infantry unit where I was injured several times and received a Purple Heart. Not once did I ask for acknowledgment or a thank you for my service record. Jus so you know before you start throwing salt my way and start with the "you're a hater" bullshit.