The images Spenser Rapone posted on Twitter from his West Point graduation were intentionally shocking: In one, the cadet opens his dress uniform to expose a T-shirt with a blood-red image of socialist… US News Summaries.<\/b>
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The images Spenser Rapone posted on Twitter from his West Point graduation were intentionally shocking: In one, the cadet opens his dress uniform to expose a T-shirt with a blood-red image of socialist icon Che Guevara. In another, he raises his fist and flips his cap to reveal the message: \u00ab\u00a0Communism will win.\u00a0\u00bb Less than a year after Rapone’s images drew a firestorm of vitriol and even death threats, the second lieutenant who became known as the \u00ab\u00a0commie cadet\u00a0\u00bb is officially out of the US Army with an other-than-honorable discharge, the AP reports. The Army accepted Rapone’s resignation Monday after an earlier reprimand for \u00ab\u00a0conduct unbecoming of an officer.\u00a0\u00bb Rapone said an investigation found he went online to advocate for a socialist revolution and disparage officers. Officially, the Army said only that \u00ab\u00a0appropriate action was taken.\u00a0\u00bb
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, \u00ab\u00a0One final salute.\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0I consider myself a revolutionary socialist,\u00a0\u00bb the 26-year-old Rapone told the AP. \u00ab\u00a0I 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.\u00a0\u00bb Rapone said his journey to communism grew out of his experiences as an Army Ranger in Afghanistan (\u00ab\u00a0We were bullies in one of the poorest countries on Earth\u00a0\u00bb) before he was accepted into the US Military Academy. And those views only hardened during his studies of history as one of the academy’s \u00ab\u00a0Long Gray Line.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

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