Lucian Truscott IV — West Point graduate and third generation military officer on Trump bombing Iran (Podcast)
Lucian K. Truscott IV is a journalist, author, and screenwriter. Lucian started working for the Village Voice while still a cadet at West Point in the 1960s and comes from a long line of military leaders and political figures. I recorded this interview was recorded a few days before Trump dropped bombs on Iran. We discussed:
Interviewing Abby Hoffman for Life Magazine and covering the Stonewall Riots
Current and potential US military action against Iran
How Lucian's experience as a graduate of West Point informs his view of the consequences of US involvement in conflicts
His concern about hasty and ill-advised military and political decisions
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Proud third-generation military officer
Truscott was born in Japan to Anne and Lucian K. Truscott III, a U.S. Army colonel.[1] His grandfather Lucian Jr. was a U.S. Army general during World War II where he commanded the 3rd Infantry Division and later the Fifth Army in Italy. His father Lucian III served in the U.S. Army in Korea and Vietnam, retiring as a colonel.[2]
Truscott attended the United States Military Academy, graduating in 1969. In 1968, Truscott and other cadets challenged the required attendance at chapel services. Later, a court case filed by another cadet along with midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy resulted in a 1972 US Court of Appeals decision (upheld by the Supreme Court) that ended mandatory chapel attendance at all the service academies.[3] He was then assigned to Fort Carson, Colorado.[4] There, he wrote an article about heroin addiction among enlisted soldiers and another about what he felt was an illegal court martial. He was threatened with being sent to Vietnam, so he resigned his commission about thirteen months after graduating, receiving a "general discharge under other than honorable conditions."- Wikipedia
TakeAway: Listen to those who have served America in the armed forces for three generations like Lucian, not would-be dictators who dodged military service with five deferments.
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