Sounds like a frat initiation ceremony. I've honestly been through much worse than this, minus the bra thing of course.
That would be light for fraternity pledge hazing. Crawford would seem a total moron who hasn’t the ability to even begin to see the big picture.
If American lives are on the line I would pull off the fingernails of some terrorist with pliers if that is what it took to extract the information I needed. This is war not some European “feel good” game. People live and die based on these decisions and they better damn well make the right ones.