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Spenser Rapone in 2016. (Spenser Rapone/AP)
Spenser Rapone, 26, became notable a bit faster than most graduates. On Monday, the Army’s 10th Mountain Division accepted the resignation of 2nd Lt. Rapone less than a year after he posted photos of himself at his 2016 graduation, posing in a Che Guevara shirt under his uniform, along with a fist salute to underline a message written in his cap: “Communism will win.”
The photos, which Rapone posted to social media last September, created a fierce backlash, sparked death threats and drew calls from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to investigate Rapone’s online writing last fall. In response, West Point said in September that Rapone’s actions “in no way reflect the values of the U.S. Military Academy or the U.S. Army.”
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Spenser Rapone in 2016 (Spenser Rapone/AP)
Rapone received an other than honorable discharge, the AP reported, an administrative separation reserved for misconduct.
— source washingtonpost.com | Jun 19, 2018