When it comes to Army football, United States Military Academy (USMA) Superintendent Lieutenant General Robert Caslen knows how to get his cadets to show their school spirit.
After all, LTG Caslen donned the Army uniform as a cadet, playing center for the USMA (also called West Point) Black Knights in the 1970s.
In 2015, LTG Caslen led his team onto the field riding a custom-made Orange County Choppers motorcycle.
And then there was that time he took over the t-shirt cannon during West Point’s rout of the Lafayette Leopards, appropriately earning the nickname “Supe Daddy.”
The Lieutenant General is known to be out in front of the student section during games, pumping up the cadets, and leading them in the Army chant, “The Rocket.”
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Caslen once again made quite the entrance this past weekend at USMA’s Michie Stadium, where the Black Knights were set to take on North Texas, leading his team onto the field riding a motorcycle.
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But this wasn’t just any motorcycle.
The jet black bike, emblazoned with the West Point logo, was given in memory of the five USMA cadets and recent graduates who have passed away this year.
In addition to listing the names of the fallen, the bike includes this message:
Heroes get remembered but legends never die. In memory of Tom Surdyke.