A court martial could be summoned, but won't be -- to do so would only attract Peter's notice, and bring more attention to the episode. The offending soldiers will be reprimanded, which will give them something more to gripe about.
Perhaps they will be taken to one side and spoken to by their company commander, or, who knows, maybe even the general. He might begin by saying to them: Have you got any idea of something called pride? Pride is what kept the Mayflower people from giving up and sailing back to England. It's what gave the early Americans the steel to face their own Iraqs -- Indians and freezing weather and hunger and pain and loneliness.
There was something there that made them stick it out. And they hoped, those who wrote home and sang songs and wrote poetry, that in doing so they would endow a tradition, served by American soldiers for three centuries, in jungles and swamps and deserts (yes, deserts), where many of them lived and died not for four months but sometimes for years.
"And they," the company commander might conclude, "were draftees. WE are volunteers. We said we'd do the work, go where we were told to go, fight who we were told to fight, accept the orders we got, and do this without griping to Peter Jennings.
"Any questions?"
Questions would be unlikely.