I would have preferred he would he would have continued his pleas to his tone-deaf superiors while the entire crew got sick. sacrificing his crew by obeying COC is the least he could do because it is a well known fact the not doing so will lead to the complete breakdown of the military order and complete mayhem. We don’t want people to think for themselves when lives are at stake because, “Ours is not to question why, ours is but to do and die.”