There are plenty of officers and enlisted men in the military who have done far worse. People just get off on expressing their moral outrage over anything related to the Penn State situation. It doesn’t sound like anything unfair has happened to the kid. He was involved and he pled down to avoid felony charges. He can’t apply to join the military while he’s on probation and he can’t join at all without a waiver and an interview process, so booting him out of ROTC only makes sense. If you can’t complete the ROTC program and you can’t enlist in the military as required, then you have to pay back the scholarship money just like everyone else who leaves ROTC. If he didn’t want any of that to happen to him, then he shouldn’t have plead.
That being said, when he probation is up, he can apply for a waiver and go from there. He won’t graduate until at least 2013. If the military is truly his dream, he can wait until 2 years after graduation to give it another shot.