Naval Academy News

One old postcard features a 1910 picture of Naval Academy midshipmen wearing dark uniforms with white leggings while blasting away with artillery pieces on the school's parade ground.

As top U.S. Navy officials deliberate on a policy change that would allow women to serve on submarines, Naval Academy officials said they've been advised to canvass female students for the possible historic opportunity.

Looking to reduce the risks inherent in landing helicopters aboard ships, a team of six Naval Academy midshipmen is documenting the air currents and atmospheric disturbances that pilots must navigate on a regular basis.

About 50 midshipmen gathered in the Naval Academy Museum this week to read poems, some written by them after serving in combat and others as a tribute to warriors in uniform.

Academy's Masqueraders display a flair for comedy with 'Fortinbras' T he Naval Academy's Mahan Hall rocked with laughter last weekend as the midshipmen of the Masqueraders displayed their comedic mastery in Lee Blessing's "Fortinbras."

The Naval Academy, and by extension the Navy and Marine Corps, has been criticized for making diversity a primary goal.

As it turned out, the color guard still ended up all white because the male replacement forgot parts of his uniform.

Midshipman First Class John Huffstetler has been selected to serve as Company Commander for 16th Company at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.A He is one of 30 seniors chosen to lead each company for the fall 2009 semester.A See the Nov.

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"Sources: USNA subbed mids to look more diverse" There is the headline from the Marine Corps Times on Sunday.A No one was supposed to know the Naval Academy brass yanked two of the four midshipmen who had arrived at the World Series last week to perform as an honor guard for the game.

She's the highest ranking enlisted sailor at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, and works in a man's world, but CMDCM Evelyn Vonn Banks doesn't mind it at all.

On the day his side lost the Vietnam War, Hung Ba Le fled his homeland at the age of 5 in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees.

Jim Cunningham's retirement comes with strings attached. But that's just the way he wants it.

It all started Sunday, when U-S Naval Academy student Matthew Sanders went reportedly missing.

Naval Academy leaders removed two midshipmen from a color guard that performed at the World Series last week because they were white men, and replaced them with a nonwhite man and a white woman so the academy could present a more "diverse" profile, according to several sources, a move that has reportedly angered mids and alumni.

Lucky you folks - we have a "Tuesday Twofer." One subject - two authors. The first part of the post will be from me, then USNA English Professor Bruce Fleming will follow.

Police in West Virginia are considering whether to charge a U.S. Naval Academy student who they say lied about being the victim of a kidnapping and extortion plot.

"Midshipmen are persons of integrity: They stand for that which is right. They tell the truth and ensure that the full truth is known.

Naval Academy Commandant of Midshipmen Capt. Matthew Klunder holds a copy of the school's honor manual while discussing concerns expressed by some graduates that honor violations aren't taken seriously.

The U.S. Naval Academy Chapel, designed by the noted Beaux-Arts master Ernest Flagg, had in recent years begun to show the effects of its 100 years of existence at the Naval Academy grounds in Annapolis, MD.