Can't really see how anyone could get upset about THIS remark though - it's not an attack or anything, and if anything it's almost complementary.

Some of the things he's said in the past have been a bit off the wall, but a certain documentary about him a year ago, he's not the duffer some people paint him as - he's likeable, and it's a shame he had to cut short his military career which he loved, due to circumstances.
He really doesn't get the recognition he deserves