Felt like he wasn’t paid enough for that? The day before retirement? We’ll never know.
The JROTC students had more courage.
He retired while on active duty...Was looking forward or spend his 33+ years of pension benefits until that day. When the moment of truth came, he chose the path of least and most dishonorable resistance.
I bet up to the day he was assigned that duty he shoved his badge in everyone’s faces because he was only in for the power trip and phony hero worship.