And I would say that some stressful backlog has caused him to take a stand that he is on the downside of....and he a brilliant man. Therefore, stress.
What makes you think he had stress leading up to this??? He took a full year to ask questions up and down his chain of command. The only stress he had was in not getting a straight answer from his military commanders as to the CiC’s eligibility. That’s not post-deployment stress. That’s stress from their evasivenesss.