Rapone resigns commission
Mick sends a link to the Associated Press which reports that Spenser Rapone has submitted a resignation of his commission as an Army officer to the 10th Mountain Division command;
Top brass at Fort Drum’s 10th Mountain Division accepted Rapone’s resignation Monday after an earlier reprimand for “conduct unbecoming of an officer.” Rapone said an investigation found he went online to advocate for a socialist revolution and disparage high-ranking officers and U.S. officials. Officially, the Army said in a statement only that it conducted a full investigation and “appropriate action was taken.”
An unrepentant Rapone summed up the fallout in yet another tweet Monday that showed him extending a middle finger at a sign at the entrance to Fort Drum, accompanied by the words, “One final salute.”
“I consider myself a revolutionary socialist,” the 26-year-old Rapone told The Associated Press in a series of interviews. “I would encourage all soldiers who have a conscience to lay down their arms and join me and so many others who are willing to stop serving the agents of imperialism and join us in a revolutionary movement.”
Rapone said his journey to communism grew out of his experiences as an Army Ranger in Afghanistan before he was accepted into the U.S. Military Academy. And those views only hardened during his studies of history as one of the academy’s “Long Gray Line.”
Yeah, OK – the Taliban made him a commie.
Here’s his farewell Tweet to Fort Drum;
One final salute #FTA pic.twitter.com/JdyOYnEejJ
— Rudi (Dutschke) Can’t Fail (@punkproletarian) June 18, 2018
In case he deletes the Tweet;
Greg Rinckey, an attorney specializing in military law, said it’s rare for an officer out of West Point to receive an other-than-honorable discharge. He added that it’s also possible the military academy could seek repayment of the cost of Rapone’s education because he didn’t serve the full five-year service obligation required upon graduation.
Category: Dumbass Bullshit
See ya wouldn’t wanna be ya! What is that pinko crap you have tattooed on your wrist anyway, directions to the gay bath house?
I’m thinking the tat under the watchband is Che.
YMMV
Sure it’s not Karl?
It’s likely an ad for Brucie’s Bath House (Entrance in Rear) that he had done to make up for the outstanding balance on his account!
It’s an ad for “Fisting Friday” at Brucie’s…
Good riddance.
I hope they make him pay for his time at West Point.
Since he failed to complete his (I think) 5 year obligation, and since that failure was due to his own misconduct, it would seem appropriate that he should at the very least reimburse the taxpayers for the education they gave him.
He can make wallets for the US Disciplinary Barracks Store:
http://www.ftleavenworthlamp.com/news/20161201/usdb8200sales-store-offers-array-of-products
A little capitalism never hurt nobody, right Rapone??!!
Yes, they need to do JUST that and I say let the IRS do the collection work!
He needs to pay back every penny.
I’m all for DFAS starting the collection process the day before yesterday!
“I would encourage all soldiers who have a conscience to lay down their arms and join me and so many others who are willing to stop serving the agents of imperialism and join us in a revolutionary movement.”
The one statement by this piece of shit that I agree with. All theses commie fucks need to get the hell out of the military! It’s a cancer that needs to be eradicated! I do truly hope that USMA seeks reimbursement from this rat bastard, and that this follows him the rest of his life!
So basically, he is joining IVAW…
What a dope.
What. A. Silly. Little. Boy.
If any of that were true, then why waste the years of his life becoming an officer?
Same reason as usual…..’hey everyone, lookatmelookatmelookatmelookatmelookatmelookatme’
Hey Rapony douchebag! See this? It’s my middle finger waving right back at you on the way to irrelevancy!
Where have you been? This is the age of being anti-American, anti-Law Enforcement, anti-Personal Responsibility, anti-Common Sense, etc.. He’s gonna be a hero for sure.. just wait
MSNNC or CNN picking up on the story in 3..2..1.
*MSNBC
MSDNC 🙂
I wonder if they’v offered to hire him yet?
No doubt. Expert on military matters.
My thoughts, too. He can also weigh in on a variety of issues, none of which he knows shit about. But, that has never been a problem with the liberal retarded MSM.
Weapons expert?
At least as a former member of the Rangers he would be better than at least 90% of the medias’ “experts” on the topic.
Except that every word out his mouth would be a lie, with the intent of diarrming the masses, so they can be better controlled in a socialist utopia..
“MSLSD”
Spenser Rapone Must Suck Dick Need Cash?
CCCP
His parents must be so proud ! I assume he has already made plans to move back into mom and dad’s basement to pursue a career in video game strategy development?
Boy has the right to remain silent. He just doesn’t have the ability.
Good. Stupidity should be painful. And expensive.
AMF!
This fucker should have to go to each and every National Cemetery, get on his hands and knees in front of each and every headstone and apologize for being an abomination. But then, Id hate to have this scum desecrate hallowed ground.
Naw. Social morons like Ramona here need to be ostracized until they learn to have some manners and appreciate the freedom they have here to be fools in public.
He shouldha been drummed out, Dreyfus style. Sword broken over head and all.
no. I have a different take on things with swords. remember back in the good old days, when disgraced Roman officers would fall on their swords to end the shame? or Japs would commit sepaku? or, well, you get the idea.
I think that is a bit excessive for him, but not Manning.
Comrade Assclown should be publicly stripped of his uniform, sword snapped, tarred and feathered, and drummed off the Base to ‘Rogues March’.
Old School
Either way works, honestly. Besides, wasn’t Dreyfus shot afterwards?
Nope, After Dreyfus was cleared and released from Devils Island, he was promoted back into the Army and given a command. He served in WW1 as a reserve arty Major and died shortly before WW2.
Ah. Maybe I got him mixed up with Mata Hari.
Rapone’s developing ideological fervor was nurtured and stoked by one Dr. Rasheed Hosein, USMA’s infamous moslem jihadist history professor. One wonders how many other USMA grads have been infected by Hosein’s mozzie revolutionary fervor, but are doing a better job of keeping it under wraps until the “appropriate” time. And more importantly, why is Hosein still on the USMA payroll?
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2017/09/report-west-point-professor-rasheed-hosein-who-mentored-socialist-organizer-army-officer-placed-on-admin-leave/
What’s the actual fucking value of having this guy teach at USMA?!
‘cuz…………diversity!!!!
you see, for the 13 centuries prior to American power, the moozies were proudly peaceful and just people who the world looked to in admiration and trust.
Oh…wait…nope. The moozies were just as intolerant and violent then.
Since when haven’t they been an intolerant bunch of goat-raping Wife-beating shitass fleabags?
Fun fact, from David Fromkin’s A Peace to End All Peace:
Violence in the pre-WWI ME was so rampant that houses were often built without windows to increase security, despite the miserable temperatures.
Small, perhaps, but remember it the next time someone tries to tell you that Middle East shitholery has something to do with Zionism, European imperialism, or American interventionism.
What’s sad is that there is probably another hard charger out there who just missed being accepted to West Point so this d-bag could be admitted.
And now all the money spent training this guy might as well have been put into a pile and burned.
I bet the University of California campuses are fighting over who gets him. He’ll get a quickie Masters and Doctorate degree based on his life experiences “suffering on the other side” and be tenured in record time.
Unfortunately probably true
He’ll run for Congres to and probably win
Nothing surprises me anymore
Shades of Swofford?
That’s his final salute?
Okay, get the hoof nippers. A couple of quick snips should teach him some manners.
I hope he has to pay back every cent of his tuition and costs to the Academy.
No, I would suggest he needs a Ring Applicator.
Damn it’s truly a new day in America
When a POS like this is shown the door
Buh-bye now. Don’t come back now. Good riddance, douchebag. You are now free to relocate to whatever worker’s paradise you wish – might I suggest Venezuela, or the DPRK. Perhaps Fatty Kim Da Turd might offer you a commission in his Army; whatever you choose, do it SOON and please GTFO you useless POS.
Dilly Dilly, off to the pit of misery with him!
LOSER.
I was raised to look up to service academy grads. Nowadays, with all the attention-whoring…sigh.
Fucking CUNT.
see ya….DICK. His name should never again be mentioned. After all, that’s what he craves. Please refer to him in the future as “Ram-bone” (y’all can do much better)
Rape-pony the Commie Brony!
Hahahaha
More like “Ram-butt”… that’s how he’s going to make a living now that he’s out.
How the hell did he make it through Ranger School?
I highly doubt being a Ranger flipped his colors. That shit is in one’s DNA.
AFAIK he didn’t. He apparently made it through RIP/RASP, but didn’t get his tab.
So he’s lying his godless commie ass off when he talk about his “experiences” as a Ranger in Afghanistan? What a surprise.
I believe he was assigned to a Ranger battalion as an enlisted man. That makes him a “Ranger” in common parlance.
He got booted from Ranger school as an officer.
I suspect he likely did not do well in his Peer Reviews, even if he managed to hack all the physical and mental stuff. Maybe it is attributable to the fact he admits he hates this nation and wants a revolution to turn it into a commie/socialist shithole like lovable Venezuela.
I thought he might have been -in- Ranger school when this whole thing broke.
I thought I read somewhere he was “in the field” on a 10th Mountain Div. exercise.
I recall that as well, maybe I just assumed in the field meant Ranger school.
26Limabeans: I was under the impression that following his commissioning, he had failed out of Ranger school before being assigned to 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division.
I was going by this which I should not have:
“Rapone said his journey to communism grew out of his experiences as an Army Ranger in Afghanistan before he was accepted into the U.S. Military Academy”
His words which are not worth shit. My bad.
I hit the report this button here on accident; sorry mods.
Now you have to hit the Donate button to fix it.
From what was in the post awhile back, he was kicked out of the Rangers. Sounded like he was a non-Hacker and a problem child.
How the hell did he make it through 4 years of West Point without anybody noticing he was unfit to be an officer?
See above about his muzzie advisor.. when that kind of crap is part of the Academy, standards have dropped seriously.. that’s what happens when you’ve got Zero running the country for 8 yrs..
At least one person saw it. When this all first broke, there was a lengthy piece written by a field grade officer that was openly disrespected by Rapone (who wasn’t in uniform as required) and reported it.
Apparently the powers that be think an insubordinate cadet is going to make a good officer.
I remember reading that. If he won’t show appropriate respect to superior officers, how the hell are his troops supposed to respect him?
Now Rapone is free to pursue his life’s ambition as the boyfriend of the eunuch Bradley Manning! Maybe they can take that leap together.
Off a cliff!
Or a roof.
Waiting for sj to comment…😉
Ole SJ is still pissed off because the cock sucker didn’t get a Dishonorable and, so far, hasn’t had to refund the money that was spent by us taxpayers.
Absodamntively- pay back his tuition. Who do we call?
He owes all of us so much more than just the tuition. But, at a minimum, he must be made to reimburse us for that.
Fuck off, you fucking cockweasel.
Maybe one day, Rapone will find himself being a
DIS-Spenser in some Gray Bar Hotel with Tiny, Julio and the rest of the boys
One can only hope.
Soy Boy lookin dick skinner ya got there Rapone.
Bye
Got another malcontent out. Great. Cocksucker.
“Rapone said his journey to communism grew out of his experiences as an Army Ranger in Afghanistan”. I thought Rapone was booted from the Ranger course.
He apparently was, but in A-stan he was in one of the Ranger battalions as enlisted. Most of the E-3’s, E-4’s and some of the E-5’s in the Ranger Batts have not been to Ranger School yet. Anyone who serves in the units of the 75th Ranger Regiment is considered a Ranger though not yet tab qualified. Some of the Regiment’s support troops will never go to Ranger School, as it would be a waste of a slot. Many of the Commo and maintenance people will never go. For example, there is not point in sending parachute riggers to Ranger School.
Makes sense. I know Combat Engineers are Sappers, but most never go to Sapper School. There is a Sapper Company in my Battalion, but I always air quote the “Sapper” part because very few of them have been to the school.
Another obama military stain.
How in the hell did this commie bastard get so far as to be graduated from West Point and have an assignment as a butter bar? There really ought to be an investigation about that. Start with his school papers, interview his classmates and professors and fire every swinging dick who said nothing about this stain. West Point ain’t Berkeley, although I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Rapone will be feted as a hero there now and maybe offered a teaching gig.
My last point about this. Rapone is part of a disease infecting West Point. Another Pat’s links and those that follow explain this all perfectly. The “investigators” are the ones who need to be investigated.
This is but another example of the proglodyzation of the military under 0bama. All branches are now completely infected with varying degrees of progtardism courtesy of the SJW movement to the extreme left. I suspect one will find some believers of some of its basic tenets even in elite units. It will only get worse.
Who was that WP queer from several years back? Yeah, I know, which one? The one that was arrested.
Dan Choi…had to look up the first name but I had a Soldier named Choi years ago, so that surname sticks with me.
Thanks. That’s it. Choi and Rapone. Sounds like they should be on a menu.
Well…. bye!
He can be a socialist all he wants, but he’s going to get a first-hand lesson in capitalism while he’s figuring out how to pay the government back ~$100,000. Maybe a government provided education wasn’t all he thought it was cracked up to be. Dumbass.
His family must be so proud.
Later, loser.
I wonder how soon he’ll be attending someplace like UC Berzerkely and on their faculty soon after?
I can just see Rapone and Commissar Lars hanging out at the Berzerkely student union lounge on a Friday night drinking soy lattes and exchanging woke stories…
And playing that Netherlander navy game, Dutch Rudder.
Likely whenever they’re not having a Lemon Party!
2/17 Air Cav: You may be interested in these two articles:
https://taskandpurpose.com/spenser-rapone-social-media-professor/
https://medium.com/@UlisseRJ/open-letter-to-grads-from-ltc-ret-heffington-659dac71511f
I read that and also was linked to the USMA initial response to the LtCol Heffington’s open etter
https://www.usma.edu/news/shared%20Documents/Superintendent%27s%20Letter%20to%20Graduates%20regarding%202nd%20Lt.%20Rapone.pdf
AH BINGO,
Apparently here is the response from the USMA Superintendent LG Caslen (Which I will now go read. )
https://www.usma.edu/news/Shared%20Documents/USMA%20Superintendent%20Addresses%20Open%20Letter%20from%20Academy%20Graduate.pdf
Wow! That 2nd one, the open letter, explains Rapone from top to bottom, as well as more than a few other things. It’s a must read. Thanks.
Lieutenant General Robert L. Caslen, Jr., the West Point Superintendent, responded (sorta) to LTC Heffington’s open letter. Caslen said nothing and did nothing about Rapone until “The Pic” went public and infuriated politicians and alumni. Here’s the link to it:
https://www.usma.edu/news/Shared%20Documents/Superintendent%27s%20Letter%20to%20Graduates%20Regarding%202nd%20Lt.%20Rapone.pdf
Caslen and the administration of West Point need to go.
AH ha, 4 minutes apart.
Glad we both posted it.
Yeah, I didn’t read that except and bunch of statistics, and not a real counter point to LtCol Heffington’s open letter.
I have no doubt that the US Military Academies are as squeaky clean and not affected by the PC and SJW climate as they claim.
Read these:
http://usdefensewatch.com/2017/10/obamas-military-legacy-pc-sjws-the-lgbt-mafia-and-comrade-lieutenant-rapone/
https://amgreatness.com/2017/10/18/on-the-corruption-of-the-military-academies/
http://thefederalist.com/2017/10/16/not-just-west-point-u-s-military-academies-become-disneyland-politicians/
http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/naval_academy/ac-cn-drug-use-usna-0222-story.html
They are still there???
Why?
Good question. Heffington ought to be West Point superintendent. I admire him greatly. He became a target by doing the right thing. He’s the type of man West Point used to produce. Now, it’s mamby-pamby, hurt feelings, pillow fights, and sissy marys getting married in the chapel. Barf.
He’s gone. It was announced today by a West Point news release. See my later comments.
Oops. “He” refers to Caslen.
Good link, 4 minutes apart.
I took this from that:
“Make us to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong, and never to be content with a half-truth when the whole can be won”
Bernie has a slot waiting for him.
I’d pay good money to hear, from his troops…
I wish his to be a miserable life.
Well now that this clown is gone will the Supe respond to the Lt Col’s charges. He said in his letter he would provide the facts about what was known and when.
Look up at my post and 2/17 Air Cav.
I posted a few links but if you have too many links in a post, i think Jonn has it set to delete it or not post it.
Anyway,
Here are a few interesting articles about how the PC and SJW crowd (and politicos) have (in the article’s opinions) have damaged the various Service Academies.
these articles were written shortly after Lt Col Heffingotn and Lieutenant General Robert L. Caslen’s response in October 2017
https://amgreatness.com/2017/10/18/on-the-corruption-of-the-military-academies/
http://thefederalist.com/2017/10/16/not-just-west-point-u-s-military-academies-become-disneyland-politicians/
Also this:
http://usdefensewatch.com/2017/10/obamas-military-legacy-pc-sjws-the-lgbt-mafia-and-comrade-lieutenant-rapone/
On the uptick, the creeper will no longer be able to subvert or betray anyone unfortunate enough to have been exposed to him in a military environment.
The U.S. is entitled to recover the expense of this man’s willful and wanton deceptions.
FWIW, I hate to think that he may have or may obtain firearms.
If Lars hadn’t shit in his mess kit on TAH, he would be on here fully explaining to us all how his comrade is correct and you all are wrong.
I do miss him. Like I miss a hole in my head.
I miss him as much as I do my last toothache.
I would say that a good number of troops gave the main gate an FTA salute on leaving for the last time. Of course we did it after a term of honorable service and had earned the right. This guy should have been discharged from the Stockade, and if enlisted, he would have been. Fookheem!
Funny how when he was getting a paycheck, free education, free room and board, and free medical care he didn’t have any trouble “serving the agents of imperialism.”
Now that I read some of his screed, I think this might be John Kerry 2.0. He certainly has the same awkwardly shaped head and face. Let’s see if he goes to Washington and throws his medals!
I bet he doesn’t have any Purple Hearts to throw over the fence, but he could borrow someone else’s medals like Lurch aka SKerry said he did.
“I consider myself a revolutionary socialist,”
No…you’re a spoiled rotten little Millennial brat who wants a participation trophy for living, and that everyone support you by their hard earned tax dollars.
Ticks me off that someone who has spent their life trying to get into WP was denied entry b/c whoever recommended this toad didn’t do adequate research. He’ll come to his senses some day, maybe, after he has burned all his bridges and his only recourse is to suck dick behind Circle K.
Wonder if he will show up for class reunion? If so, I genuinely hope he gets his teeth stomped into his brain. I rarely ever wish the worse for people, but I’ll make an exception in his case.
Above the value of about $100,000 was given for a payback. That wouldn’t even touch tuition. All costs including 3 hots/a cot, semester hours, medical, etc., probably exceeds a quarter of a mill. A top tier university today can easily cost $60000 annually.
Fuck you, you cowardly asshole. A true socialist with gonads would have made his position known early on and faced the consequences. You took the easy road. You are the moral equivalent of pond scum. Go to NK. I understand it is a worker’s paradise.
Instead of North Korea I suggest that he go to Venezuela for a year sans any kind of financial backing, try to live off their economy for a year and IF he survives that he can be exported to Cuba!
All these purported Marxist “socialists” need to live in a communist/socialist country. It’s not pretty. I spent a day in East Berlin back in 1969; it was the most depressing place I have ever been. We quadrupled our cash of Marks and couldn’t find anything worth buying. The populace acted like they were terrified of the authorities, which I am sure they were. East German soldiers and police were everywhere, many of them armed. Most of the city had extensive bomb damage from WWII, which was totally lacking in West Berlin (except for that bombed cathedral preserved as a memorial).
In the 90’s we used to say $250,000 shoved up your a$$ on nickel at a time. So I am sure $100,000 is way too low of an estimate now.