Thanks for posting the background information.
Asshats like chris got their lunch handed to them many times in middle school. They still haven’t gotton over the fact that they are defective.
Embed his rear for several weeks with a randomly selected platoon in some remote outpost on the Afghan/Pakistan border that has seen recent action and I bet you he will change his definition of “hero” in a couple days at most.
Just showing up in a combat zone makes one a hero in my book.