The U.S. Army announced Tuesday it was investigating a West Point graduate who publicly posted to social media several photos advocating communism, including several that featured him wearing his alma mater’s uniform.
West Point swiftly responded to the posts as they spread rapidly across social media, making clear the messages posted by Second Lieutenant Spenser Rapone "in no way reflect the values of the U.S. Military Academy or the U.S. Army."
"As figures of public trust, members of the military must exhibit exemplary conduct, and are prohibited from engaging in certain expressions of political speech in uniform," West Point wrote in a statement. "Second Lieutenant Rapone's chain of command is aware of his actions and is looking into the matter. The academy is prepared to assist the officer's chain of command as required."
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There is no way in hell you can be a communist or a supporter AND in good faith honor the oath to support and defend the Constitution. It is one or the other but impossible to do both. If were in my power to do so, I would have him tried for treason. Found guilty. Formally striped of his rank, walked down a walk of shame then placed in front of a firing squad. I hope that POS commits suicide.
ReplyDeleteThere is no way in hell you can be a communist or a supporter AND in good faith honor the oath to support and defend the Constitution.
DeleteAbsolutely.
I find it most peculiar that an enlisted soldier would win an appointment to West Point, earn a degree, be commissioned, and then act like this. Did he really want to leave the Army this badly? If tossed out does he have to repay the taxpayers? His actions are reprehensible and very, very, strange.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering how he got his medals.
DeleteWhat makes a guy do something asinine like this?
ReplyDeleteI can see being a communist, if that works for you, but to apply to West Point, be accepted, presumably graduate, and do something like this?
"For the good of the service" was invented for sadsacks like this one.
Dishonorable discharge.
Let that albatross hang around his neck for the next 70 years or so...
And thanks to my WW2 vet teachers, many of whom were Annapolis and West Point graduates, for banging that poem into my head all those decades ago at Porter-Gaud. I really had some great teachers, but was too much of an ummdass to appreciate it at the time... But it's all still in there somewhere. Just ask me to recite the helping verbs sometime :)
- Charlie
that poem
DeleteWhich one was that?
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
DeleteThe albatross was (is) a good luck bird, and the ancient mariner killed it. His crew forces him to wear it around his neck as punishment.
The poem also gave us "Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink".
- Charlie
"Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink"
DeleteHow well I remember. Thanks.
In my time in the Army (1967-1977) we would have given this little communist bastard a blanket party to end all blanket parties and then thrown him in the stockade. And then a dishonorable discharge.
ReplyDeleteBob
a blanket party
DeleteHad forgotten about them. Thanks.
I want to know a few things: When and where was this "Young Gentleman" awarded the CIB? When did he serve in combat? Where and in what unit? Where was his "chain of command" in all this? AND: Why the hell hasn't this treasonous Son Of A Bitch been restricted to quarters pending a GCM , for a laundry list of charges? ---Ray
ReplyDeletethe CIB?
DeleteFirst thing I noticed.
In a country than can elect a communist as president... twice, does it really matter that one junior officer is one too?
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Really. :(
ReplyDelete"Now, after sending Our Best Young Men To Die on distant battlefields fighting Communism, we may simply vote a Marxist into our highest office."
23 July 2008