I'm confused.
Given military training assumes some (small) likelihood of having to take a life without the owners consent (either in survival craft, or shooting at the other guy) and I figure would be incompatible on that basis with a vegan lifestyle, why didn't they just process him as a conscientious objector and send him to the civil service?
I'm figuring civil service neither mandates the wearing of leather nor consumption of specific foodstuffs, right?