Probably just as rough on him as it is on you. Hope it settles down soon. The military in my dreams is a little more fluid about allowing me to reassign squads to help out the PD. Unfortunately that doesn't carry over to real life.
Could just be one of those guys who likes to think they're prepared for the zombie apocalypse. Some of them are like that.
Or, if I were an extra-paranoid suspicious type, I could put him down as trying to gather a large number of civilians for a hostage situation, possibly through our favorite terrorist organization.