Troops

A troop is not a man, a woman, a youth, or any other kind of human being.
A troop may be an organization: such as a troop of acrobats or of men trained to fight together.
"Troops" may refer to several or many groups or to a larger collective.
An acrobat or a trained fighting man may be referred to as a trooper.
A human being we pay to kill and be killed in our armed forces(our troops)is a man, a woman, a son, a daughter, a father, a mother. a corporal, a citizen, a youth. Not one of them is a troops