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'Plebe' Summer begins at Naval Academy
7/1/2011: It's induction day at the Naval Academy
in Annapolis. It's a nice way of saying you're not a civilian
anymore - and in no uncertain terms. Their high school diplomas
are barely dry. Now for the next seven weeks, they'll have to
survive the summer as "plebes," which is what first-year
students are called.
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Naval Academy squadron makes brief trip to Connecticut
7/2/2011: Rear Adm. Michael
McLaughlin, commander of Submarine Group Two, welcomed the
visiting US Naval Academy Offshore Sail Training Squadron during
their brief stay in Stonington, Connecticut, June 24-27. The
squadron traversed 300 nautical miles from Annapolis on four
Navy 44-foot sailboard crewed by midshipmen. The Stonington
Harbor Yacht Club and local families hosted the midshipmen during
their visit.
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Fall meeting date changed
7/3/2011:
The fall WISNAPA meeting has been changed from Saturday, Oct. 29 to
Saturday, Nov. 5. The location will remain the same, at the
Milwaukee Yacht Club. For more meeting information, click
here.
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Robert Gates retires from secretary of defense
7/4/2011:
Robert Gates received the highest honor any civilian can get in the
country. During his farewell on June 30 ceremony as secretary of
defense, President Obama surprised Gates with a special
recognition: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The only man
ever to be secretary of defense for both a Republican and
Democratic president, many have suggested he is the finest
defense secretary ever.
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Historic Marine base gets first-ever female general
7/5/2011:
For the first time in its 96-year history, a female general is taking
charge at the famed Marine Corps training depot at South
Carolina's Parris Island. Brig. Gen. Loretta
Reynolds, who is also known as the first female Marine to ever
hold a command position in a battle zone, took charge at the
installation south of Beaufort.
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Navy wins international sailboat competition
7/6/2011:
A team of 12 recent Naval Academy graduates and midshipmen won first place
at the 2011 SailBot competition for robotic sailboats, held June
13-16 at the academy. The team, made up of systems engineering,
naval architecture and oceanography majors, designed and built a
two-meter sailboat capable of autonomously completing a series
of graded tasks outlined in the competition rules.
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Midshipmen volunteer for 'Save
the Bay' Day
7/7/2011:
Thirty-six midshipmen from 16th Company went to Lake Waterford
Park in Pasadena, Maryland, last semester, to render
clean up, tree planting and beautification assistance as part of
the "Save
the Bay"
Day campaign.
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Mids compete to help wounded veterans
7/8/2011:
Three Naval Academy midshipmen participated in the Oshsner 70.3 Ironman
held in New Orleans, Louisiana
to help raise awareness and funds for the Wounded Warrior
Foundation.
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In her father's footsteps: Dee Coulson, USNA graduate
7/9/2011:
Intended or not, Diedre Fay Coulson, Hudson,
Wisconsin, is following in her father's footsteps. On May 27 she
graduated from the U.S. Naval academy with a major in systems
engineering and was commissioned. As a brand new ensign, she's
in Pensacola, Florida to begin flight training. It so happens
she grew up in the Navy. Her father Jim Coulson
was a 30-year man, a 1977 Annapolis graduate and aviator who
retired as a captain.
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Plebes to make phone calls
7/10/2011: Plebes will be able to make
three phone calls home during Plebe Summer. The dates and times
will be:
Sunday, July 10 at 3-3:30 p.m. EST
Sunday, July 24 at 4-4:30 p.m. EST
Wednesday, August 3 at 7-7:30 p.m. EST
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US Naval Academy year in review 2010-11
7/11/2011:
Most people know the mission of the Naval Academy is to develop midshipmen
morally, mentally and physically and to imbue them with the
highest ideals of duty, honor and loyalty in order to graduate
leaders who are dedicated to a career of naval service and have
potential for future development in mind and character, to
assume the highest responsibilities of command, citizenship and
government. Here are some interesting facts and figures to how
that mission was accomplished in the 2010-11 year.
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Life of John Paul Jones
7/12/2010: John Paul Jones is famous
in the United States as the "Father of the American Navy." He
was born in poverty and through his skills became a
distinguished naval officer fighting for both the USA and
Russia. In Britain he is rather remembered as a pirate. In 1913
his body was finally laid to rest in a magnificent marble
sarcophagus, modeled on the tomb of Napoleon, in the chapel
crypt of Annapolis Naval Academy, a far cry from his humble
beginnings in Scotland.
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Mids compete in human-powered submarine race
7/13/2011:
A team of recent Naval Academy graduates and midshipmen won the 11th
annual International Submarine Races held June 27-July 1 at the
Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division in Bethesda,
Maryland. The team won first place for overall performance,
which included a $1,000 cash prize.
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Former mids to compete at World Military Games
7/14/2011:
The United States is one of over 100 countries slated to send teams to
this year's World Military Games that opens this week in Rio de
Janerio, Brazil. Included on the U.S. roster are a number of
former Naval Academy student-athletes.
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Cadets, Midshipmen, UPDF partner throughout Uganda
7/15/2011:
Cadets from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and
midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis participated
in a weeklong leadership training workshop last month throughout
Uganda with the Ugandan Peoples Defense Force (UPDF).
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Academy Ball date announced
7/16/2011:
The date for the 2011 All Academies Military Ball will be on Friday, Dec.
30, 2011 at the Country Springs Hotel in Pewaukee. The Wisconsin
West Point
Parents'
Association (WWPPA) will be hosting the
event this year. Additional information will be posted as it
becomes available.
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Midshipmen participate in tornado chasing internship
7/17/2011:
A group of 10 Naval Academy midshipmen recently participated in the 2011
Severe Weather In-Field Training (SWIFT) exercise, conducted in
several states in the U.S. The activity was to engage midshipmen
in forecasting, observing and verifying severe convective storms
and to develop them professionally with tours and briefings at
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Air
Force Weather Agency operational and research facilities.
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Westport is port of call for Naval Academy crews
7/18/2011:
As they washed and polished the railings, decks and trim on the majestic
sailing crafts visiting Westport in the late Friday afternoon
sun, the spirit of camaraderie, responsibility and duty they
share was obvious. These young sailors were learning the ways of
the sea while being groomed to be future leaders of the
nation's
naval forces.
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Midshipmen learn rappelling skills
7/19/2011:
Marines
with Special Operations Training Group instructed a group of
midshipmen on the proper procedures of Helicopter Rope
Suspension Techniques training at Camp Pendleton, California,
June 28.
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At 60,
she's out of the
barracks and into the books
7/20/2011:
During Army book camp two years ago, Carol Heartlein Sells looked around
at the other 180 officer recruits in her class and did the math.
She was the oldest by at least a decade. At the time Sells was
58 and joining the military for the first time. She did what she
was recruited to do - help set up a new doctoral program for
Army occupational therapists at Brooke Army Medical Center in
San Antonio.
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'Wolfpack'
gives midshipmen taste of helo life
7/21/2011:
Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 466 played host to 86 U.S. Naval Academy
midshipmen at the Marine Corps Base in Camp Pendleton,
California, July 13. The midshipmen are scheduled to spend a
week getting hands-on experience in the Marine Air-Ground Task
Force as part of their summer professional training.
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Career extended
7/22/2011:
When Andrew Hanko graduated from the United States Naval Academy, he
thought his competitive distance running career was over. An
ensign in the Navy, he had elected to serve on nuclear
submarines. Just keeping in shape would be difficult in that
environment, and training for races seemed nearly impossible.
But Hanko will be able to compete at least once more, when he
represents the United States in the Military World Games in Rio
de Janeiro.
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West Point cadet dies during field training exercise
7/23/2011: A new U.S. Military Academy
cadet has died while participating in field training at West
Point, and an investigation was under way to determine the cause
of death. Jacob D. Bower of Fairmont, West Virginia, was found
unresponsive Thursday in a wooded area while joining in a
land-navigation exercise in the vicinity of Camp Buckner.
Efforts to resuscitate him at the scene were unsuccessful and he
was pronounced dead at 6:05 p.m. U.S. military officials
believed that Bower to be a victim of this week's hot weather.
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U.S. Naval Academy funeral detail renders honors
7/24/2011:
U.S. Naval Academy sailors provide military funeral honors to all fallen
Navy veterans and retirees in Anne Arundel County on a year
round schedule. Services range from flag folding, casket bearing
and presenting the flag and are performed by 10 enlisted service
members, the ceremonial bugler for
Taps which the Naval
Academy Band supplies, and a rifle team provided by other
commands.
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Navy prepares submarines for first female officers
7/25/2011: For Ensign Peggy LeGrand,
the biggest concern about serving on a submarine is not spending
weeks at a time in tight quarters with an entirely male crew.
What worries her is the scrutiny that comes with breaking one of
the last gender barriers in the U.S. military. The initial class
of 24 women will be divided among four submarines, where they
will be outnumbered by men by a radio of roughly 1 to 25. The
enlisted ranks, which make up about 90 percent of a sub's
160-sailor crew, are not open to women although the Navy is
exploring modifications to create separate bunks for men and
women.
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Academy grad replaces Petraeus
7/26/2011:
Gen. David Petraeus handed the reins to U.S. and NATO forces in
Afghanistan to a former Naval Academy commandant of midshipmen.
Gen. John Allen was the first Marine to serve in the
academy's No. 2 post. He was the 79th commandant of midshipmen and a 1976 graduate
of the academy.
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Navy and Notre Dame extend
football series to 2026
7/27/2011: Navy's football series with
Notre Dame, which is the longest continuous intersectional
rivalry in college football, has been extended to 2026, which
will be the centennial year for the series.
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Future US officers, TPDF Navy find common ground
7/28/2011: Cadets from the U.S.
Military Academy at West Point and midshipmen from the U.S.
Naval Academy at Annapolis visited the Tanzanian People's
Defense Force (TPDF) Naval Command Training Center in Dar Es
Salaam, for training recently. The students came at the
invitation of the Tanzanian government to visit TPDF junior
officers and exchange training philosophies, best practices on
leadership style and introduce the junior officers to one
another to facilitate future working relationships.
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Dinner for four thousand?
7/29/2011:
David
O'Malley, food services director at the Naval Academy, knows
his way around the kitchen. As with hundreds and thousands of
others who know their way around a kitchen, cooking is a
second-nature activity that
O'Malley
and the rest of us is that most of us aren't cooking for 4,500 hungry members of the Armed Forces.
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Mids train with Quantico marines
7/30/2011:
Naval Academy midshipmen recently returned from Marine Corps Base,
Quantico, Virginia, where they spend four weeks of their first
block of summer training participating in the Leatherneck
Program. The program is designed to train, evaluate, advise and
mentor senior midshipmen considering a career in the U.S. Marine
Corps.
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Mids learn from Tanzanian forces
7/31/2011:
Midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy and cadets from the U.S. Military
Academy at West Point visited the Tanzanian
People's Defense Force (TPDF) Naval Command Training Center in Dar Es Salaam, for
training in June. The students came at the invitation of the
Tanzanian government to visit TPDF junior officers and exchange
training philosophies, best practices on leadership styles and
introduce the junior officers to one another to facilitate
future workshops.
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Navy! Beat
Army!
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(Wisconsin
Naval Academy Parents' Association,
Inc.)
Board of Governors
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