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Navy runs over Missouri to capture
Texas Bowl
1/1/2010: An exuberant celebration
featuring numerous displays of unbridled joy began as soon as
safety Wyatt Middleton intercepted a pass to put the finishing
touches on an incredibly complete performance in the Texas Bowl.
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Naval Academy
sex abuse training programs praised
1/2/2010:
The Naval Academy has done an excellent job of implementing programs aimed
at reducing sexual assaults, according to the new Defense
Department report. The Naval Academy, with 4,400 midshipmen, had
eight reported sexual assault cases during the 2008-2009
academic year. That was about average for recent years, and was
down from 15 cases in 2005, but up slightly from six in the year
ending in 2007.
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Dolphin Club
provides firsthand view of the submarine fleet
1/3/2010:
Midshipmen at the Naval Academy have many opportunities to learn about the
different communities they will become a part of upon their
graduation. Those interested in submarine warfare have the
luxury of joining the Dolphin Club, allowing them to take part
in activities that reveal more about the community and share
those experiences with like-minded mids.
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Academy:
Lessons learned from color guard flap
1/4/2010:
The superintendent of the Naval Academy said that the flap over racial
makeup of a color guard that marched at the World Series had
provided "some good lessons
learned" for the Brigade of Midshipmen, and explained that the
whole thing had been caused by a "misunderstanding."
The academy's
color guard made arrangements to march at
game two of the World Series in New York without vetting them
with the administration, Vice Adm. Jeffrey Fowler told
Navy Times. He said the administration often changes the makeup of
groups - to make sure midshipmen get equal chances to represent
the school.
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Academy:
Lessons learned from color guard flap
1/4/2010:
The superintendent of the Naval Academy said that the flap over racial
makeup of a color guard that marched at the World Series had
provided "some good lessons
learned" for the Brigade of Midshipmen, and explained that the
whole thing had been caused by a "misunderstanding."
The academy's
color guard made arrangements to march at
game two of the World Series in New York without vetting them
with the administration, Vice Adm. Jeffrey Fowler told
Navy Times. He said the administration often changes the makeup of
groups - to make sure midshipmen get equal chances to represent
the school.
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Two Midshipmen
earn Mitchell Scholarships
1/5/2010:
Two First Class Midshipmen have been awarded Mitchell Scholarships, which
provides each of them with one year of postgraduate study in any
discipline offered by institutions of higher learning in Ireland
and Northern Ireland. The Mitchell Scholars Program, named to
honor former U.S. Senator George
Mitchell's pivotal contribution to the Northern
Ireland peace process, is designated to introduce and connect
generations of future American leaders to the island of Ireland,
while recognizing and fostering intellectual achievement,
leadership and a commitment to public service and community.
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MU, Navy band officials: Clash of songs just a
misunderstanding
1/6/2009: Missouri and Navy football
fans clashed online over the weekend in a verbal brawl about competing
band performances after Thursday's Texas Bowl. Although now officially
resolved, the incident provided emotional outbursts from both sides.
Navy fans said MU was rude to play its fight song as the U.S.
Naval Academy Drum & Bugle Corps was performing its revered
Blue & Gold anthem. Missouri fans argued that Navy began
playing before Marching Missou finished its own traditional sequence of
songs. As it turns out, neither side had the correct information. It was
all a misunderstanding.
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Midshipmen research project affects how fleet does business
1/7/2010:
Six first-class Midshipmen from the mechanical and aerospace
engineering departments are making significant contributions to
a major research project aimed at investigating ship air-wake
impact on naval helicopters.
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Navy opens 2010 football season against Maryland
1/8/2010: The Naval Academy announced
their 2010 football schedule on Thursday, which includes five
games at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium and three neutral
site games in the NFL venues. The Mids will play four teams who
played in a bowl game in 2009, including two conference
champions. The Mids are coming off a 10-4 campaign, including a
seventh-consecutive Commander-In-Chief's Trophy and a victory
over Missouri in the Texas Bowl.
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YP Squadron teaches Mids vital leadership and navigation skills
1/9/2010:
Five Yard Patrol (YP) Squadron crews got underway from the Naval
Academy last month to transit the Chesapeake Bay and the
Delaware River as part of the weekend-long activities of the
110th Army-Navy football game. The YP Squadron is a surface
warfare oriented extracurricular activity that provides
Midshipmen with a small-scale but realistic view of life on a
ship while teaching them seamanship, navigation and leadership
skills.
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Spring
Yardtales deadline set
1/10/2010:
The deadline for the spring issue of
Yardtales is
Monday, January 25.
Submit articles and photos (in JPEG or TIFF formats) to
Jan Haupt. If preferred,
hard copies of photos can be mailed, will be scanned and
promptly returned.
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Blue Angels to
perform in Wisconsin
1/11/2010:
The Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, popularly known as the Blue
Angels, first performed in 1946 and is currently the oldest
flying aerobatic team, performing graceful aerobatic maneuvers
with precision flying. The
squadron's
six demonstration pilots fly the Boeing
F/A-18 Hornet in more than 70 shows at 34 locations throughout
the United States each year. The Blue Angels will perform in
Wisconsin June 5-6 in Eau Claire and in Milwaukee June 12-13.
The Blue Angels' mission is to enhance Navy and Marine
Corps recruiting efforts and to represent the naval service to
the United States, its elected leadership and foreign nations.
The Blue Angels serve as positive role models and goodwill
ambassadors for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.
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Internet posts indicate threat to Navy
1/12/2009: Messages posted recently by
prominent contributors to Islamist Web sites are seeking
specific information on U.S. military targets in hopes of
carrying out an attack on Navy ships in the Persian Gulf,
according to a U.S.-based group that tracks such sites.
Extremists reportedly are "on the verge of attacking U.S. ships
in the gulf," according to Steven Stalinsky, the group's
executive director.
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2010 Commissioning Week Schedule
1/13/2010: A tentative Schedule of
Events is available for the Class of 2010 Commissioning. Updates
will be posted to this website on the right side menu under the
Class of 2010 Graduation date of May 28, 2010. A detailed
program of events will be posted at a later date.See
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Vinson deploys to respond to Haiti earthquake
1/14/2010: USS Carl Vinson
(CVN 70) has been ordered to deploy to Haiti to conduct
Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Response (HA-DR) missions.
Currently, Vinson is underway in the Atlantic Ocean,
and will briefly loiter off the coast of Mayport to receive
equipment and supplies. Along with Vinson, USS
Bataan (LHD 5) embarked with Marines from the 22nd Marine
Expeditionary Unit (MEU 22), USS Fort McHenry (LSD 43),
and USS Carter Hall (LSD 50) were ordered to get
underway as soon a possible. Additionally, USS Normandy
(CG 60), USS Underwood (FFG 36) and USS John L.
Hall (FFG 32) will deploy from their homeports and stand
ready to assist, while USNS Comfort (T-AH-20),
homeported in Baltimore, Maryland, is preparing to get underway
if required.
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Naval Academy chosen among nation's top 100 best-value
colleges
1/15/2010: The U.S. Naval Academy was
named as one of the nation's top 100 best-value colleges by
The Princeton Review. The Best College List features 50
public and 50 private colleges, and The Princeton Review
selected these institutions as its "best value" choices for 2010
based on surveys of administrators and students at more than 650
public and private colleges and universities.
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NAPS welcomes
new commanding officer
1/16/2010:
Naval Academy Preparatory School (NAPS) in Newport, Rhode Island held a
change of command ceremony Jan. 12. Capt. Jim Cunha, of Rumford,
Rhode Island, relieved Capt. Anthony Barnes as commanding
officer. Barnes temporarily held the job after Capt. Leland Hart
Sebring was relieved of duty in August. NAPS is responsible for
strengthening academic skills of about 300 potential candidates
each year for the Naval Academy.
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Kinkade steps up to lead brigade
1/17/201:
Last week, Midshipmen recently returned to the Yard after a three-week
semester break. And, while most acclimate themselves to their
schedules, classes and professors, Midn. 1/C Keegan Kindade has
another added pressure - he is responsible to, and for, all of
them. Kinkade has assumed the duties as the Brigade Commander,
the highest position within the Brigade of Midshipmen. He
relieves Midn. 1/C Ryan Steenberge, who held the position during
the first semester of the academic year.
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World War II
veteran speaks to Midshipmen
1/18/2010:
World War II veteran Woody Story recently spoke to Midshipmen at the Naval
Academy's
Uriah P. Levy Center about his experiences aboard the destroyer
escort USS Levy (DE
162), commissioned in 1943. Story, a native of Virginia, was a
sonarman first class during his tour on Levy, serving as the
captain's talker at special sea detail and on the sound stack
listening for a torpedo attack, at general quarters.
Levy's duties included anti-submarine and
anti-air protection.
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Yardtales deadline reminder
1/19/2010: The deadline for the next
issue of Yardtales is next
Monday, January 25.
Submit articles and photos (in JPEG or TIFF formats) to
Jan Haupt. If preferred,
hard copies of photos can be mailed and will be scanned and
promptly returned.
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U.S. astronauts visit Naval Academy
1/20/2010:
Three U.S. astronauts from the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration's
(NASA) most recent shuttle mission visited
the Naval Academy Jan. 12 to speak to the Brigade of Midshipmen.
Marine Col. Charles Hobaugh (USNA
'84), Navy Capt. Barry Wilmore and retired Capt. Michael Foreman
(USNA '79) attended noon meal at King Hall then
headed to Alumni Hall to describe their last mission to an
audience of Midshipmen, faculty and staff.
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January letter from the commandant regarding recent
thefts

1/21/2010: Recently, there has been
allegations of theft at Naval
Academy including textbooks and other personal items taken
during the holiday leave period. The Commandant of Midshipmen,
Capt. Matt Klunder and his staff have taken immediate action to
investigate this matter and to determine the culprit and
potential degree of permeation throughout the Brigade. A full
investigation is underway and the results will be forthcoming.
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Midshipmen get rare look at U.S. intelligence
community, learn about national security
1/21/2010:
A group of 45 Naval Academy Midshipmen studying aspects of the U.S.
intelligence community and its relation to national security
traveled to Washington, D.C. in December to get a rare
first-hand glimpse at the inner workings of a few of the
agencies they discussed in the classroom. The trip included
stops at the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) in Suitland,
Maryland, and the Washington Field Office of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI).
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Comfort
receives first patients aboard
1/23/2010:
Navy medical professionals aboard
USNS Comfort (TAH20) received their first patients Jan. 20,
delivered by an MH-60S "Knighthawk"
helicopter from USS Carl
Vinson (CVN 70) in the middle of the night. Prior to
arriving on station just a few hours away from the Caribbean
nation of Haiti, Comfort
Sailors spent much of their three-day transit from their home
port of Baltimore, preparing for patients by conducting drills,
reviewing procedures and conducting frequent exercises
concentrating on the variety of afflictions they felt they were
likely to encounter during their disaster relief efforts during
Operation Unified Response.
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Widespread problems found on LPDs, other ships
1/24/2010:
Navy engineers are tackling a raft of problems discovered aboard warships
built at the Gulf Coast yards of defense giant Northrup Grumman
- including faulty welds, lube-oil problems and a defective
engine - in the latest installment of the ongoing saga between
the Navy and its largest shipbuilder.
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Navy's
newest warship tops out at more than 50 mph
1/25/2010:
USS Independence (LCS 2) will be the sixth ship of the U.S. Navy to be named for the
concept independence. It is intended as a small assault
transport with a variety of capabilities depending on the
mission module installed. The ship is a
trimaran
design capable of over 45 knots (52 mph) in two minutes.
Destroyers and frigates top out at roughly 30 knots. A
traditional navy commissioning ceremony took place on Jan. 16,
2010 marking the entrance of the
USS Independence into
the Fleet.
USS Independence official web site
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Midshipmen provide training, advice to Scouts
1/26/2010:
Midshipmen assisted the National Eagle Scout Association during the
weekend of Jan. 16, developing future Eagle Scouts and helping
current scouts earn difficult badges, such as wilderness
survival, orienteering, radio and first aid. Roughly 85
Midshipmen camped out at Camp Letts for three days and two
nights along with approximately 650 Scouts and adults from the
local community, fighting the frost and cold temperatures.
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Spring Yardtales deadline extended
1/27/2010: The deadline for the next
issue of Yardtales has been extended to
Friday, Jan. 29. E-mail articles
and photos to
Jan Haupt
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Tom Brokaw calls for 'all
hands on deck'
1/28/2010:
He may have been preaching to the choir, but that didn't stop NBC
correspondent Tom Brokaw from returning to the refrain of public
service when he addressed the Brigade of Midshipmen Jan. 25.
Brokaw was the guest speaker at the January installment of the
Forrestal Lecture Series at the Naval Academy.
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USNA player's drug test causes 'uproar'
1/29/2010:
A Naval Academy football player is being permitted to continue
as a midshipmen even after testing positive for drug use,
according to multiple sources and Web sites that have sprung up
to criticize the decision. According to sources with knowledge
of the situation, the player smoked a cigar packed with a
mixture of pot and tobacco - also known as a "blunt"
- deeply enough for the drug to show up on a random urinalysis
test performed in December. But he told the Naval Academy
leaders he didn't
know he was smoking marijuana and is being permitted to continue
at Annapolis, the sources said.
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A milestone on ice for Midshipmen
Navy adds women's team to flourishing program
1/30/2010: Monday Night Football
celebrated its inaugural season, along with the United States
Naval Academy's Club Hockey program. As the men's hockey program
marks its 40th anniversary, the 2009-2010 campaign marks the
first for the women's program, under the direction of Tim
Murphy.
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Naval Academy
staff member receives MLK Award
1/31/2010:
Naval Academy Director of Governmental Affairs Joe Rubino received the Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Drum Major Award at the 22nd Annual Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards dinner Jan. 15 in Glen Burnie,
Maryland. The award is presented to individuals who have
demonstrated a propensity and commitment to the dream of Dr.
King and is given
annually to recipients locally and nationwide.
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