If he is enrolled in an ROTC program, he will be able to defer any deployment.
If he wants to end up in either of those fields, he needs outstanding grades. Intelligence will require above-average fitness. SF requires superhuman fitness.
His grades are average unfortunately, but he is learning arabic, and he has been training over the last 6 months using the SF regimen - he is among the fittest in his National Guard unit. We are of Indian origin (me and his mom were born in India - Sikh families, but without the turbans or beards - and he and his brother were born in Canada), and his dark good looks notwithstanding (he got them from his mom, of course), he could easily blend into most cultures in the developing world.