He'll always be military to his core but - there's a difference between that and throwing his friends to the wolves. He knows enough to know that Ross feels his failure to capture the Hulk is his worst failure, and he knows enough to know that the Hulk would have probably ripped Ross in two, and cleaning up that much blood was just a pain in the ass.

And he knows that, despite differences in how they reacted or would have reacted, they're friends, and that comes first. "Do you even remember anything about that?" He asks, then his lips twitch. "Because you know if I ask Thor the story's going to come with several tall tales."