He’d need to put a few hundred thousand people on trial, right? You can’t just rubber stamp a judgment like this.
Dishonorable and BCDs require a court martial. They can not be given administratively, like say the general discharge Hunter Biden got for being crack abuser.
I know of 4 guys while at my last unit who refused the anthrax series they were put on restrictions for two months while they waited an article 15 board which then the commander decided to BCD them. I should know I was in the CID detachment who brought charges with the provost against them. BCD don’t take a full court marital panel a commander can do it with the provost.