Yes, it would have taken a courageous person, with plenty of legal and historical knowledge. (Of which you would have thought there would be plenty in the military) who would have had to have stood up against the whole republican media culture which you know would be calling them traitor.

You  have to ask where was the situations Hugh Thompson Jr. and where were the senior officers who would stand up for what was morally right?

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.