By RALPH D. RUSSOASSOCIATED PRESS |OCT 14, 2021 AT 7:41 PM If a 12-team format is the future of the College Football Playoff —- and odds are that it still is despite a recent detour on the road to expansion — among the many details that need to be worked out is when it would start. There are two …
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Estate Planning 101 October is Estate Planning Awareness Month and the Naval Academy Foundation’s Office of Planned Giving will be hosting a webinar, “Estate Planning 101,” on Thursday, 28 October at 3 p.m. EDT to help build awareness on this important topic. The webinar is designed to help people learn about some estate planning fundamentals …
Classmates, Frank Hunt (1ST CO) forwarded to me the following observations and comments from Admiral Kirk Donald, USNA ‘75, about the Naval Academy. Admiral Kirk was recently honored as a Distinguished Graduate and following the DGA ceremony in Annapolis, he received briefings from Academy leadership and the Alumni Association. The Admiral has provided his notes and observations from those …
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Sep 16, 2021 8:58:34 AM One of only four varsity sports offered at the Naval Academy at the turn of the century (along with baseball, crew and football), fencing has been an integral part of the Naval Academy sport story since 1896. It also has a deep history of great success here, no doubt related …
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U.S. News and World Report recently ranked U.S. colleges and the Naval Academy came in as #1 for Top Public School:
By BILL WAGNERCAPITAL GAZETTE |SEP 11, 2021 AT 9:00 AM Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at The Capital Gazette. On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Ed Malinowski was walking to his second period class when he began hearing chatter among passing midshipmen about some …
Follow Naval Academy Tourism on Social Media Ahoy, fellow USNA supporter! You’ve shopped with us and learned with us at Navyonline. Want to know what you can do next to support the Naval Academy? Visit the USNA and follow Naval Academy Tourism on Facebook and Instagram! Just like the Navyonline accounts, Naval Academy …
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By HEATHER MONGILIO CAPITAL GAZETTE |SEP 07, 2021 AT 1:09 PM Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at The Capital Gazette. The Naming Commission, the federal task force examining Confederate symbols on military installations, is seeking recommendations for new names for installations and ships that could …
From the USS PORTER Facebook page: “Congratulations to the 2021 Arch Griffin & Terry O’Brien (USNA’78) Memorial Leadership Award winners: Blue Jacket – BMSN Nakia Hardy E4 – BM3 Marqutta Reed E5 – FCA2 Tyler Townsend E6 – OS1 Alfred Zemke CPO – GMC Michael Zimmerman Officer – LTJG Andrew Walker Keep up the awesome …
Links to the trailer of the 1937 classic Navy Blue and Gold Trailer and a 2017 documentary The Making of An Officer were added to the Interesting and Fun Video Links page on the website. The 1937 classic follows three Mids through their time at the Academy and starred James Stewart, Robert Young and Tom …
