Boyd finding out the weird line that separates vampires from cannibals and straddling it.

Froze on the battlefield and was tossed in a pile of bodies with his commanding officer’s blood dripping in mouth, finding new energy and took the enemy command post singlehandedly.

“We could shoot you, Boyd, but that would set a bad precedent” so instead they promoted him and sent him to hardship posting in the mountains out west.