I find this offensive, I mean what were they thinking?
Are they afraid if they bump the guy out they'll give the Navy a bad name? And he being allowed to perform rituals around his mates would be disruptive and obnoxious. I would think this will eventually come up for review again. Then again, maybe not.

Some kids fall into this in their twenties, and end up getting out of it, like the Moonies or some other cult. Others stay to become rather frightening people and avoided at all costs. But we here in America have our own practising Satanist in the Army, Michael Aquino, who brought back some of Hitler's inner circle practisces to be used in the CIA, which remain <today>