"This is easy - COWARD!! He needs a BCD and time in the brig!"
Bingo. He's lucky they aren't thinking of executing him. It is time of war, and he did desert.
And just exactly how does one JOIN the military and THEN become a conscientious objector? He's a coward. Make him serve the rest of his enlisted term in the Brig, then give him the BCD!
" It is time of war"
Congress hasn't declared a war that I know of.