West Point
Census-designated place in New York StateWikipedia
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Sep 13, 2026
Eric WalkerHOST
And so I chose the latter, which was the way to go.
Eric WalkerHOST
then I got the opportunity to go train with Tony in Montreal and in West Point New York which was awesome is like 12 days of training crazy that my department approved that and paid for it but it was cool and then that was indispensable and in my evolution as a martial artist and a police officer And then I actually brought Tony to Safford.
Eric WalkerHOST
Right.
Eric WalkerHOST
That was a big seminar.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
At one time, the cause of liberty was nearly ruined by a traitor.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
General Benedict Arnold tried to sell the British a fort at West Point on the Hudson River.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
If the British could have got that, the states north and east of New York would have been cut off from the rest, and probably they would have all been conquered.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
Happily, the plot failed.
Bill FedererSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
His leg heals.
Bill FedererSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He's now made the, um, uh, char- he's in charge of West Point.
Bill FedererSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And after a year of nagging, she gets him to meet with a British spy, John Andre, to betray West Point.
Bill FedererSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And he's gonna betray West Point on the very day George Washington is coming to inspect West Point.
Bill FedererSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It'll be a double crisis.
Bill FedererSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And so he's meeting with the spy.
Bill FedererSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Some Americans see it and fire upon it, so it pulls away.
Bill FedererSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And so now the spy's left on shore with Benedict Arnold.
Peter BergenGUEST
We made a film called American War Generals for National Geographic.
Peter BergenGUEST
And we interviewed all the key commanders who most of them started at West Point in 1971, 1972, when the war in Vietnam was deeply unpopular.
Peter BergenGUEST
If you wore a military uniform in public, people would spit on you.
Peter BergenGUEST
Well, that was the generation of McChrystal, Petraeus, Odierno, a lot of the key generals in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Peter BergenGUEST
One of the themes that came out of that documentary was, you know, at West Point, you learn more about the American Civil War than you did about Vietnam or about counterinsurgency.
Peter BergenGUEST
Vietnam is almost like a verboten topic.
Peter BergenGUEST
I hope we don't make the same set of mistakes again, because by the law of averages, the United States is going to get pulled into a messy, protracted insurgency war that that isn't really, it's not the war that the US military particularly wants to fight.
Craig MelvinHOST
9-11-01.
Craig MelvinHOST
There's also a small W. That's because these coins were minted in West Point, created by New Yorkers.
Craig MelvinHOST
In fact, West Point is going to strike 250,000 of these coins.
Craig MelvinHOST
They're going to go into circulation.
Craig MelvinHOST
The Treasury Department says they will be distributed around the nation so that people in every corner of the country will have the opportunity to own one of these.
JenniferAUDIENCE
C- to see what's going on in the teaching world as we speak, you know, students not knowing about 9/11 hurts my soul.
JenniferAUDIENCE
But that day, driving home in, in this communal daze of people horrified and frightened together, driving up the New York City, um, roadways and New York State Thruway to get back home, I remember seeing the convoy from West Point coming down the New York State Thruway, and my heart leapt out and I knew in that moment I needed to change my life trajectory, and I wanted to help.
JenniferAUDIENCE
And the only way I knew how was to become a first responder.
JenniferAUDIENCE
That day inspired me, the loss of those.
Allen WestGUEST
Uh, they set the conditions for a guy like me.
Allen WestGUEST
I think about Henry O. Flipper, who was a, a Georgia native just like me, the first Black graduate from the United States Military Academy West Point.
Allen WestGUEST
I think about, you know, the, the 54th Massachusetts, the Buffalo Soldiers, 9th and 10th Cavalry.
Allen WestGUEST
I think about all of the Tuskegee Airmen.
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Sage SteeleHOST
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Sage SteeleHOST
I'll end on this 'cause I know, um, my dad, uh, loves you, and I know you know who he is.
Sage SteeleHOST
Um, but as when-- I might have told you this when I came on your podcast a few years ago, but when we were kids, he had us memorize part of the cadet prayer from West Point.
Sage SteeleHOST
Um-
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
At one time, the cause of liberty was nearly ruined by a traitor.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
General Benedict Arnold tried to sell the British a fort at West Point on the Hudson River.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
If the British could have got that, the states north and east of New York would have been cut off from the rest, and probably they would have all been conquered.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
Happily, the plot failed.
Jim DeCesariHOST
He currently serves as the Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, the oldest standing legislative committee in the House with broad jurisdiction over our nation's energy, the environment, health care, telecommunications, and consumer product safety policies.
Jim DeCesariHOST
Guthrie graduated in 1987 from the US Military Academy at West Point and went on to serve as a field artillery officer in the 101st Airborne Division Air Assault at Fort Campbell.
Jim DeCesariHOST
He later earned a master's degree from Yale University in Public and Private Management.
Jim DeCesariHOST
Following his military service, he joined Trace Diecast, a Bowling Green based manufacturing business that was started by his father.
Pete DominickHOST
And so they're leaving, wanting to leave.
Pete DominickHOST
And by the way, a couple of professors have been kicked out of West Point Military Academy, the prestigious military academy just north of me here in beautiful West Point, New York.
Pete DominickHOST
because they told the truth, this latest one about climate change.
Pete DominickHOST
So a couple of stories over there.
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