RC,
As an ‘old grad’ I see it somewhat differently. It is not a matter that a young man may have made a mistake, it is the degradation of standards at the academy that troubles me. With the paper trail that exists, there is no way he should have ever graduated let alone been put in charge of a platoon of soldiers. I know that this mess troubles many more old grads than just me. This needs to be fully and truthfully addressed ASAP.
I'm sure that a big part of the reason I got an Army ROTC scholarship in '72 was my ACT score in the high 20s. ACT scores are not a be all, end all, but test scores have always played a huge role in admissions.