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Colonel Who Reported Communist Cadet Slams West Point Leadership
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12:10 AM 10/12/2017

 

Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Robert Heffington issued an open letter to West Point graduates earlier this week blasting the superintendent, commandant, and dean of the military academy for contributing to a “culture of permissiveness.”

The letter was subsequently posted on the website of American Military News.

Heffington told The Daily Caller he wrote the letter to the USMA Class of 1963 when several of its graduates contacted him asking how Spenser Rapone, a cadet espousing radically anti-American views, was allowed to graduate.

“The Superintendent refuses to enforce admissions standards or the cadet Honor Code, the Dean refuses to enforce academic standards, and the Commandant refuses to enforce standards of conduct and discipline,” the letter charges. “The end result is a sort of malaise that pervades the entire institution.”

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Great job Colonel Heffington!   

Thank you for having the courage to address this publicly.
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Worth noting that Heffington never taught US or military history at West Point, and all he knows of those courses is from sitting in on a couple of lessons.  Search for cadet reactions to see whether they agree with Heffington slamming them all--Rapone is one guy.  Note too that Heffington's current significant other thinks WP needs _more_ attention to gender--see the latest Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Worth noting that Heffington never taught US or military history at West Point, and all he knows of those courses is from sitting in on a couple of lessons.  Search for cadet reactions to see whether they agree with Heffington slamming them all--Rapone is one guy.  Note too that Heffington's current significant other thinks WP needs _more_ attention to gender--see the latest Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Worth noting that Heffington never taught US or military history at West Point, and all he knows of those courses is from sitting in on a couple of lessons.  Search for cadet reactions to see whether they agree with Heffington slamming them all--Rapone is one guy.  Note too that Heffington's current significant other thinks WP needs _more_ attention to gender--see the latest Chronicle of Higher Education.

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And that has to do with the fact that Rapone and a few other cadets seems to have a distinct disdain for the Long Gray Line how exactly?

How does it change the blatant insubordination displayed by Cadet Rapone towards a commissioned officer?
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It doesn't.  But note your words:  "Rapone and a few other cadets."  Unfortunately, Heffington treats Rapone as characteristic of all cadets.  I wonder what they and their parents think of that slur?

My other point was in response to Heffington's assertions about classes he has not taught.  More generally, take a look at his adjectives:  they tend to lump all cadets, most faculty, etc., together in exaggerations.  That's the definition of the screed Heffington says (at the end of his letter) he does not want to write.

All institutions have issues and face challenges.  Some wrongs or errors do not make all wrong, and a letter chock full of exaggerations either shows a lack of precision unworthy of an officer and a historian, or a willful blindness.  (Was Heffington the only good officer or teacher at WP?)  And for a retired officer--who is still subject to the UCMJ--to call his superiors liars is what?  Insubordination?  Oh, wait, isn't that what Rapone did?  Glass houses here.  Rapone will get his reward for his disrespect of constitutional authority.  But it seems that a lot of people don't mind gross mischaracterizations (to use a polite term), if they fit preconceived notions.

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It doesn't.  But note your words:  "Rapone and a few other cadets."  Unfortunately, Heffington treats Rapone as characteristic of all cadets.  I wonder what they and their parents think of that slur?

My other point was in response to Heffington's assertions about classes he has not taught.  More generally, take a look at his adjectives:  they tend to lump all cadets, most faculty, etc., together in exaggerations.  That's the definition of the screed Heffington says (at the end of his letter) he does not want to write.

All institutions have issues and face challenges.  Some wrongs or errors do not make all wrong, and a letter chock full of exaggerations either shows a lack of precision unworthy of an officer and a historian, or a willful blindness.  (Was Heffington the only good officer or teacher at WP?)  And for a retired officer--who is still subject to the UCMJ--to call his superiors liars is what?  Insubordination?  Oh, wait, isn't that what Rapone did?  Glass houses here.  Rapone will get his reward for his disrespect of constitutional authority.  But it seems that a lot of people don't mind gross mischaracterizations (to use a polite term), if they fit preconceived notions.

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I did not at all get "Rapone is characteristic of all cadets" from anything in Colonel Heffington's letter at all and I read every word.  What I got from that letter is the sorrow most of us who have a passion for that formerly fine institution find in the fact that such trash as Mr. Rapone managed to actually graduate with his class and all the fact that he did entails.  Just a few years ago it would have been quite impossible for him to have done that I will assure you!
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I did not at all get "Rapone is characteristic of all cadets" from anything in Colonel Heffington's letter at all and I read every word.  What I got from that letter is the sorrow most of us who have a passion for that formerly fine institution find in the fact that such trash as Mr. Rapone managed to actually graduate with his class and all the fact that he did entails.  Just a few years ago it would have been quite impossible for him to have done that I will assure you!

That's what I got from reading the entire report as well.
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