I have no idea. They're taking snippets from a show with DS and Lynch which was snippets from an interview. That people assume there is no spin here baffles me. The title of the article tells me what to think of it as far as I'm concerned. My guess is that Lynch is embarrassed that some people think her heroic and the film of her rescue and following media frenzy perpetuates that. What I don't think is that she said anything intentionally derogatory towards the military.
The damn woman won't do what she is told by her spinmeister superiors, gosh darn it. Why she gives the whole army a black eye, because everybody knows those lying about her are the whole army or speak for it.
The reality is she is behaving with perfect honesty about what to her was a hardship and shameful but in no way heroic. Her integrity is a stake, because if she let the stories about her conduct pass she'd be endorsing them, and she knows they are not true, that her conduct was not heroic.
And their lies for political, public relations purposes simply don't fit. They just never bothered to find out first whether they were true. They were too quick to build her up into something she was not. When that falls apart on them, the messenger is her own honesty.
That puts her sense of honor in a fine light, their sense of truthfulness is a very poor light. They can't forgive her for that. She looks good, they look bad. They feel stung. It must be self-seeking on her part. Irrational, mean, ugly, you bet. But that is what is going on here.