Grant him c.o. status after his prison term. You don't fail to show up for deployment.
"......agree with a chaplain who said that "it was morally imperative that the conscientious objector status be granted," Warren said."
Send the idiot chaplain to the brig with him. Did these two idiots get together on December 5th and decide he was a c.o..
If he wanted to file for c.o. status the Navy would have been receptive. Doing so by refusing to get underway is worthy of spending a year in the San Diego brig with the Marine guards knocking his a^% around for a year.
Grant him c.o. status after his prison term. You don't fail to show up for deployment.