Personally very figuratively hot-tempered. Something to work on, but a part of [fallen] human nature.
I’m hot-tempered, too. :-) That’s the reason why I said, “Maybe he was being defensive because the Marine ripped into him.” I’ve been involved in incidents where someone yelled at me first, and then I flew into a rage.
But I wasn’t there for this incident on the military base. Maybe the Marine spoke politely and firmly at first, and when the guy responded disrespectfully, he ripped into him. If so, then they were right to be angry with him.