2nd Lt. Spenser Rapone. Photo via Spenser Rapone/Twitter
Task & Purpose: West Point Chief Pushes Back On Criticism Amid ‘Commie Cadet’ Investigations
U.S. Military Academy superintendent Lt. Gen. Robert L. Caslen Jr. has an important message for active-duty service members and veterans outraged over the viral photos of a communist West Point graduate that circulated in September: Yes, we’re taking this seriously.
In an Oct. 11 letter to the members of the USMA community, Caslen stated that 2nd Lt. Spenser Rapone — the Afghanistan combat infantry veteran and West Point grad captured with a Che Guevara shirt under his dress uniform and a “Communism Will Win” sign under his cover — is currently subject to two ongoing investigations by both West Point and his commanders with the 10th Mountain Division for what Army Times characterized as “subversive political views.”
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Update #1: Retired West Point instructor decries 'a decline in honor, standards and meritocracy' at the academy (Rick Moran, American Thinker)
Update #2: Former Professor Blasts West Point Over Communist Grad (TruNews)
Previous Post: West Point Graduate Does Not Hide His Communist Sympathies (September 27, 2017).
WNU Editor: I mentioned this story this evening to one of my cousins who was a paratrooper in the Soviet military in the 1980s (he served two tours in Afghanistan). He thought I was pulling his keg. This is what happens when the culture and the ideals that made America great are under constant attack .... over time something else replaces it. In the case of Spenser Rapone .... he has embraced Communism .... without appreciating its destructive history and the great pain that this ideology has brought to hundreds of millions of people over the years.