It's sad to say but psychologically it's often a thin line between conservative and crazy with police and military recruits. As @DreG noticed, it happens and gets swept away. Then you throw in fragile masculinity/repressing homophobia and there you go. I have no sympathy for him as it was sexual assault at gunpoint (what if the giver had refused at gunpoint?). Give him 40 years and let him think about the life he could have lived if he had been open and not a fascist asshole.