The Iconic Warrior: Duty at West Point

This is a fast-moving story about army First Lieutenant (1LT) Jean-Paul Debert's assignment as a Tactical Officer at the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1901. (A TAC Officer is the active-duty officer who is the commander of a company of the academy's cadets.)

The controversy was that Jean-Paul was not a graduate of the Academy and did not have a college degree. As a result, there is much resistance to him being assigned there by the Academy's staff and faculty, all of whom a...