SOFREP reported on Spenser Rapone at the time in an article titled, “The Calls are Coming From Inside the House: America’s Communist Insider Threat.” At the time, SOFREP spoke to a former Delta Force Sergeant Major who expressed concern because West Point is the feeder mechanism to put officers into the Ranger Regiment and Special Forces, which in turn acts as a feeder for JSOC units like Delta. By Rapone’s own admission, he followed a communist philosophy advocated by Rudi Dutschke.
Dutschke advocated a strategy he called the, “long march through the institutions of power.” This entails burrowing inside the institutions of society, including the military, and subverting them from within and ultimately setting the conditions for a communist revolution. As we’ve seen in the recent past, ideological actors working inside the system such as Edward Snowden can do a tremendous amount of damage to national security. The idea of an avowed communist subverting important military units and functions from within has the potential to be catastrophic. (……..)
Recently, Spenser Rapone re-tweeted a post on Twitter which announced that he would be speaking at a socialist event in July as he was being processed out of the Army this June with an other than honorable discharge. This was likely the harshest punishment the Army could give Rapone unless they decided to charge him with something like sedition. With an other than honorable discharge, Rapone will not be entitled to VA benefits, the GI Bill, and may have difficulties in finding employment. [SOFREP]
You can read much more at the link, but I just find it amazing this guy was allowed into West Point in the first place and then despite faculty complaints against him was allowed to graduate.
“You can read much more at the link, but I just find it amazing this guy was allowed into West Point in the first place and then despite faculty complaints against him was allowed to graduate.”
Agreed. What a waste of resources. You’d think they’d screen better than this.
setnaffa
5 years ago
What sort of graduation present would he have gotten in 1942? 1953?
guitard
5 years ago
“With an other than honorable discharge, Rapone will not be entitled to VA benefits, the GI Bill, and may have difficulties in finding employment.”
But what about that degree he got that cost tax payers $250K? He should be forced to pay back the portion of the mandatory five year commitment that he didn’t serve.
Mcgeehee
5 years ago
If Hillary had won, he would have been a leading SecDef nominee.
a listener
5 years ago
McGeehee.We already have a KGB agent at the highest level of Government who knows what hes doing. Hillary would just muck everything up.
1sgtret
5 years ago
Commissioned officers cannot receive bad conduct discharges or a dishonorable discharge, nor can they be reduced in rank by a court-martial. If an officer is discharged by a general court-martial, they receive a Dismissal Notice,which is the same as a dishonorable discharge. It’s all a name game. But, hopefully, with the same results. If you notice in the photos, he is wearing a CIB, obviously he was enlisted prior to attending West Point. It’s a shame, we don’t get a lot of 2nd Lts with combat experience. He could have been an asset.
setnaffa
5 years ago
Top, he was an asset…. for the other side…
J6Junkie
5 years ago
I’d rather not have my LT being an anarchist and/or Commie.
Fatty and Commie Moon will be hiring soon.
“You can read much more at the link, but I just find it amazing this guy was allowed into West Point in the first place and then despite faculty complaints against him was allowed to graduate.”
Agreed. What a waste of resources. You’d think they’d screen better than this.
What sort of graduation present would he have gotten in 1942? 1953?
“With an other than honorable discharge, Rapone will not be entitled to VA benefits, the GI Bill, and may have difficulties in finding employment.”
But what about that degree he got that cost tax payers $250K? He should be forced to pay back the portion of the mandatory five year commitment that he didn’t serve.
If Hillary had won, he would have been a leading SecDef nominee.
McGeehee.We already have a KGB agent at the highest level of Government who knows what hes doing. Hillary would just muck everything up.
Commissioned officers cannot receive bad conduct discharges or a dishonorable discharge, nor can they be reduced in rank by a court-martial. If an officer is discharged by a general court-martial, they receive a Dismissal Notice,which is the same as a dishonorable discharge. It’s all a name game. But, hopefully, with the same results. If you notice in the photos, he is wearing a CIB, obviously he was enlisted prior to attending West Point. It’s a shame, we don’t get a lot of 2nd Lts with combat experience. He could have been an asset.
Top, he was an asset…. for the other side…
I’d rather not have my LT being an anarchist and/or Commie.