Nobody trusts these Hollywood animals to make a war or vet film. The know they will get ideological bilge with these people.
In older days it was different.
Then there was the loathsome “Coming Home.”
American Sniper was great and did very well box-office wise too. But Clint Eastwood directed it. As for Thank You for Your Service, the director/writer did the screenplay for American Sniper, so it does have a good pedigree.