Originally Posted by
mack7.62
there was a LTC instructor who was blowing the whistle on him for a couple of years.
Yes there was, LTC who, instead of making on the spot corrections, referring for charges, otherwise bracing Rapone up, instead wrote pissy little letters. FMR, you're a LTC at West Point and you're writing letters about unmilitary conduct and bearing?
If I'm correct, the same LTC then wrote a letter to the alumni association about the piss poor state of discipline at West Point.
So yeah, Rapone needed to be gone because his stated political views didn't mesh with the Oath, but IMHO, guys like the LTC we are talking about were also part of the problem.
Once again, IMO Rapone should have been processed out of West Point well before he got to commissioning had some folks done their jobs.
JM $.02
Last edited by 26 Inf; 06-08-18 at 22:17.
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