I think you’re over-blowing the severity of this.
The mentality of a relatively intelligent kid (what, 20 years old?), highly trained and disciplined, who thinks this might be fun/funny ... is dangerously sick
We already have the experience of one certified whack job in the white mosque .... y'want one on the battlefield too?
Or worse ... pushing policy as an admin ?
I don't know--24 concussions with one person knocked unconscious among a group of very select future officers is quite a price to pay for a prank.
Some of these cadets need to be expelled. They recklessly endangered their fellow cadets, and caused harm to them, and created real costs to the American taxpayers.
They are not officer material.