Read the story. He was an enlisted man and applied after a tour in Afghanistan. I don't think those applicants need congressional approval.
There was a West Point Prep school at Fort Belvoir, VA years ago that took Army EM who met certain standards based on Army testing. GT score was a big factor. That was 5 years to graduation as the prep school was a year. I heard they moved the school.
Not true— there is a significant review board for non-appointees (ie the supposedly “non-political” ones). So some board passed on him... and also passed him on a security clearance along the way. This bears investigation, him and the blm “officers” who couldn’t command their way out of an IT building full of army compunerds. And thus endanger the true leaders of the point of the spear.