IIRC: Spenser Rapone enlisted in the Army, joined one of the Ranger battalions, saw at least one combat tour in Afghanistan(?), graduated Ranger school, and THEN applied to USMA before he turned 22. Hard to say when he flipped to the dark side. But I remember that even in those days you could find pictures of cadets giving “black power” salute (or whatever a raised fist is these days) in photos in their parade uniforms.
Rapone’s university biography cites his interests as
<><>“decolonization, revolution, metaphysics, [and] consciousness,”
<><>his research topics focusing on “question of the self, soul, and spirit.