This idiot thinks he's a hero for splashing a vulnerability of friendly troops all over the place. He's happy about what he's done. He thinks the unit's officers are upset because "they thought it would make them look bad".
Those officers will be in those Humvees, too, but this reporter thinks they care more about image than their soldiers or their own lives. Maybe - just MAYBE - they didn't want Bad Guys to know about a whole convoy of soft vehicles headed into Apache Country.
This guy has a typical press take on what the military is all about. His contempt for professional military people, especially high brass is obvious and odious. And he thinks the 'people need to know' every last detail he can give 'em, no matter what that may do to the guys on the pointy end.
If he'd been in the press briefing before OVERLORD, you can bet the people would've known about that, as well. Oh, and Hitler and Rommel and von Rundstedt and every last private on the Atlantic Wall would've known, too.
Why didn't this clown go ahead and give the routes and skeds for the road march from Kuwait while he was at it?
Last thing: note what caused him to get all motivated to tell this story. When he found out HE HIMSELF would be travelling in an unarmored Humvee, well, the story just had to get out. And although it took weeks - and therefore wouldn't be of any use to save his own precious hide - he'd make the military pay, and all the way to the top.
What a smug, self-satisfied, self-important peckerwood. I'll bet he's about as welcome to 'his' unit as a pebble in their boot.