It’s a pity they dismissed him so early.
During WWII, there were communists inducted into the US Army. Once they had demonstrated where their real loyalties lay, they were stationed in very isolated, freezing outposts in the Aleutian Islands (after the invading Japanese had been kicked out and showed no interest in returning).
However, they were not allowed to just sit on their thumbs.
The Army decided to conduct an experiment as to whether soldiers could be trained to digest cellulose. Of course, even then it was widely accepted that they couldn’t, but “it doesn’t hurt to try”.
At the start, they were given various forms of cellulose, in liquid and solid form, which they were required to consume before, during or after meals. Then their regular food was reduced, so that they could eat increasing amounts of cellulose.
Though little unclassified scientific data was ever released, some outsider wit observed that they were perhaps the “most regular” Army unit around.
Imagine how much more amusing it would have been to send this current commie and those like him for a similar endeavor? Accompanied, of course, by a reduction in rank to private, and an OTH discharge after a few years.