Lt. Gen. Steve Gilland is the Superintendent of West Point, and has led troops in some of the Army’s most elite combat units, including the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions, the 75th Ranger Regiment and Delta Force.

Somehow he did all that while being bad at throwing grenades.

As a young soldier, he told Task & Purpose, he somehow screwed up the grenade-throwing station during testing for the Expert Infantry Badge.

That was one of the answers we got out of Gilland, and the opposing general on the other side of the Army-Navy game, when we asked both commanding officers our “5 Questions Only A Veteran Would Ask” before the 2025 contest in Baltimore.

Along with West Point’s Gilland, we talked to Lt. Gen. Michael Borgschulte, the first Marine officer to hold the position of Superin

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