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Mids find muse
amid war
12/2/2009:
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. One mid who read his poem
for the audience Tuesday, served in Iraq as a Marine from
February 2004 to April 2005.
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give 500 gifts to Salvation Army Angel Tree
12/3/2009: Naval Academy Midshipmen,
faculty and staff gathered to decorate the tree in Bancroft Hall
and kick-off the holiday season for the 19th annual Giving Tree
program. Midshipman 2/C Kerry Brady, (left in
photo), headed up this year's efforts, coordinating with the
Salvation Army in Annapolis and working with company members to
decorate the tree and line up speakers and music for the event.
She is daughter of WISNAPA members Dan and Charlene
Brady, Germantown.
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Midshipmen learn to navigate ethical dilemmas in DVDs
12/4/2009: Generations of midshipmen
have judged case studies about personal conduct and wartime
decisions through the prisms of wise men of old. Now, they're
also testing their fitness to be leaders with a series of
interactive DVDs that demand snap decisions in 21st-century
dilemmas.
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Bowl tailgate and events
12/5/2009: Various activities will be
held at the
Texas
Bowl in Houston the last week in December. A No-Host Spirit
Hour will be held at the
JW Marriott Hotel on Tuesday, Dec. 29. The 7th Annual Brigade of Midshipmen
Bowl Game Tailgate featuring a Texas BBQ will be
from 11:30-2:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 31 at the big "Navy"
tent in the South Kirby lot of Reliant Stadium. The cost is $25
for adults and $15 for children 3-12 years of age. Entertainment
includes performances by the Naval Academy Electric Brigade plus
appearances by the Navy cheerleaders and Bill the Goat.
Tailgate tickets are non-refundable and must be ordered by
December 27. Navy Sports
has additional information on game tickets, tour packages and
tailgate information.
USNA Alumni Association is also sponsoring a New Year's Eve
Come Around after the Texas Bowl game at the Bronx Bar,
2670 Sage Blvd., Houston, located adjacent to the Galleria Mall
(about a two-minute walk from the J.W. Marriott Hotel on the
corner of Westheimer and Sage Blvd.). The event will take place
from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. with a cost of $75/person (member),
$80/person (non-member), $125/couple (member) and $130/couple
(non-member). Contact the event coordinator by
E-mail or call
410-295-4020.
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Middies to keep
highway shipshape
12/6/2009:
Midshipmen from the Naval Academy will took part in the State Highway
Administration's effort to keep Maryland's roadways clean
yesterday by picking up litter along Ritchie Highway (Route 2)
just outside Annapolis. The middies took part in the agency's
Adopt-a-Highway program Saturday morning. According to the
highway administration, volunteers have saved the state millions
of dollars by picking up trash from alongside
Maryland's
non-interstate highways since the program started in 1989.
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Commandant's
December letter
12/7/2009:
Commandant of Midshipmen, Capt. Matthew L. Klunder, wrote a letter on
December 4, 2009. He indicated the
Brigade's average GPA successfully met an "important historical
trend, indicating the required academic focus and tremendous
ability to balance the excitement of extra-curricular activities
and physical requirements with the inherent rigors of USNA's
academic pace."
He also highlighted the success of the Navy football team,
including the seventh bowl game in seven years, encouraging the
Brigade and the Naval Academy family to cheer the team to
victory on December 31 in Houston at the Texas Bowl.
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Navy to play Missouri in Texas Bowl
12/8/2009:
Navy (8-4) will play Missouri (8-4) in the Texas Bowl on
Thursday, Dec. 31 at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas. The game
will be televised nationally by ESPN at 2:30 p.m. (CST). The
Texas Bowl marks a landmark achievement for the football team,
as it is the first time in school history that Navy has gone to
seven-straight bowl games. Navy can achieve another first by
winning the Commander-In-Chief's
Trophy for a school-record seventh-consecutive year on Saturday
when the Mids play Army at Lincoln Financial Field in
Philadelphia in a game that will be televised nationally by CBS
at 1:30 p.m. CST.
Tickets for the Texas Bowl are on sale now at
Navy Sports. Tickets can also be purchased starting Monday
morning at 9 a.m. by calling 1-800-US4-NAVY (1-800-874-6289) or
at the Ricketts Hall Box Office. Fans are also asked to purchase
tickets to sponsor midshipmen and enlisted personnel and their
families.
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Midshipmen gain
experience on YP
12/9/2009:
The Yard Patrol (YP) Craft Squadron 75 Midshipmen from all classes and
three officer safety coordinators on a short training deployment
to Norfolk, Virginia last month to conduct shipboard training
while underway. Along with their academic and physical
responsibilities, Midshipmen have to focus on their military
training as well. YP training is part of that process and allows
the mids to experience firsthand what
it's like to operate at sea.
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 Watch Army/Navy game in Brookfield
12/10/2009:
The Wisconsin USNAAA Chapter invites WISNAPA
members, family and friends to watch the
Army/Navy game at
Champps
Americana Sports Bar, 5030 S. 74th St. in Greenfield (in the
Stein Mart Plaza off Holmes Road from 84th/76th Street exit
south of I-894 -
directions) on Saturday, Dec. 12 at noon. There will be a
buffet for $20 at 12:30 p.m. Kick-off is scheduled for 1:40 p.m.
(CST). RSVP Chris Adams
(414-967-9249) ASAP so he can get a head count for the buffet. The game will also be
televised nationally on CBS.
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Academy readies for gridiron battle
12/11/2009: The Army-Navy week bonfire
is a fairly recent-and raucous-tradition. It usually involves
"about 500 wooden pallets, 25 bales of straw and a match," said
John Finkle, Naval Academy public works supervisor. A wooden
version of Army's mule mascot is burned about the bonfire. But
Wednesday's rain washed out the bonfire, so Wednesday night a
piņata replica of the Army mule was hung from a crane and busted
open by excited midshipmen.
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Academy to emphasize cybersecurity
12/10/2009:
Looking at the next great threat to the nation, Naval Academy officials
told the institution's oversight
board Monday that they plan to make cybersecurity a required
field of study for all midshipmen. Academy Superintendent Vice
Adm. Jeffrey Fowler told the Board of Visitors that cyberspace
will be the next battleground.
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Navy continues streak, downs Army 17-3
12/13/2009: Navy has turned sports'
most patriotic rivalry a lopsided one. The Mids beat Army 17-3
on Saturday for their eighth straight win in the series. The
loss eliminated the Black Knights' shot at playing in their
first bowl game since 1996. Navy won the Commander-In-Chief's
Trophy, awarded annually to the team with the best record in
games between the three service academies, for a school-record
seventh straight year.
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History and
experience assist training at NAPS
12/14/2009:
Some of the most successful
senior Navy and Marine Corps leaders of the last century began
their careers at the Naval Academy Preparatory School (NAPS), an
institution that boasts a long and distinguished history of its
own. Officially established in a 1919 document signed by the
Undersecretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, NAPS offered
informal preparatory classes several years earlier. Since then
NAPS has been fulfilling its mission of preparing selected
candidates morally, mentally and physically, with emphasis on
strengthening the academic foundation of individual candidates
for officer accession through the U.S. Naval Academy.
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Mids complete Alpha Room Inspection in Bancroft Hall
12/15/2009:
The Brigade of Midshipmen completed the second part of its fall
semester zone inspection, the Class Alpha Room Inspection, Dec.
2 and 3. In addition to their numerous other duties, Midshipmen
are responsible for maintaining the material condition of their
company's
spaces within Bancroft Hall and the zone inspection assesses
their ability to do that.
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Female
Mid's
sexual assault claims dismissed
12/16/2009:
The Naval Academy says there's
not enough evidence to charge anyone with sexually assaulting a female
midshipman in June. The woman, a sophomore at the academy,
reported being sexually assaulted while on summer training in
Norfolk, Virginia.
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Prep school
retooled for future mids
12/17/2009:
Midshipmen entering the Naval Academy from its preparatory school were
arriving with badly underdeveloped study skills for the past two
years, the
academy's superintendent said, which is why the
prep school curriculum got a major overhaul this autumn. Vice
Adm. Jeffry Fowler said plebes who had come from the Naval
Academy Preparatory School in Newport, Rhode Island, ahs so much
trouble with basic studying that academy officials decided to
redesign the courses at NAPS to focus on completing assignments
and asking for help.
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Naval Safety
Center launches holiday safety campaign
12/18/2009:
With the holidays fast
approaching, the Naval Safety Center has launched a
comprehensive Web-based campaign designed to give Sailors and
their families all the resources they need to manage risk
through the end of 2009 and into the early months of 2010.
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Naval Academy sets holiday hours
12/19/2009: The Naval Academy has
announced the holiday gate hours through Jan. 6. Vehicles may
enter at Gate 1 from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., and pedestrians will be
given access from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday to Thursday, and 6
a.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday. Gate 3 will be closed for
vehicular traffic through the holiday period, and it will be
closed to pedestrians on Dec. 25, Jan. 1 and on weekends.
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Mizzou Tigers
almost touchdown favorite over Navy in Texas Bowl
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12/20/2009:
The Texas Bowl will play host to the United States Naval Academy and the
Missouri Tigers on December 31. Reliant Stadium in Houston will
host the event. Navy has known the location of the bowl game
since they accepted a bid from the bowl back on November 7.
Missouri received the invite on December 6, and, upon accepting,
will represent the Big-12. The match-up between these two
programs will be the first since 1961. The
College Football Odds have set Missouri as a 6-1/2 point
favorite to defeat Navy in the game.
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Mids
participate in BIG project
12/21/2009:
Midshipmen from 4th Company conducted a Saturday Morning Training (SMT)
last month with the Midshipmen Action
Group's (MAG) Books for International Goodwill (BIG) project. The nonprofit,
humanitarian association collects, organizes and ships books
donated by Annapolis citizens to schools and libraries in
impoverished communities in the U.S. and overseas.
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Stolen Naval
Academy flag recovered
12/22/2009:
A Naval Academy class flag that was ripped off over the weekend
has been found. The 1985 class flag was taken from Benny the
Bum's bar in South Philadelphia. Class members
had left the flag hanging on the wall while they went to the
Army-Navy game. No charges are expected.
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Sexual assault
reports drop at academies
12/23/2009:
The number of reported sexual assaults has dropped again at the
nation's
three major military academies, the
Defense Department said Friday, noting that underreporting could
be a reason for the decrease. The change represents a
significant decrease in reports at the U.S. Air Force Academy in
Colorado Springs, Colorado, but a rise at the U.S. Naval Academy
in Annapolis, Maryland and the U.S. Military Academy in West
Point, New York.
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 Holiday
letter from the commandant
12/24/2009: Capt. Matthew Klunder
(right), Commandant of Midshipmen, provided one final update for
2009 outlining the many achievements the Brigade has amassed.
Important dates for the spring semester are also outlined as
well as providing an update of the H1N1 vaccination.
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 Saying
thanks during the holiday season
12/25/2009: Xerox is providing a web site to send thank
you cards to soldiers electronically at
Let's say
Thanks. You can pick out a thank you note and choose a
personalized message. Xerox will print it and send to a soldier
currently serving overseas. Several designs are available with
the artwork done by children. The service is available each
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Mids get
firsthand experience with nuclear power
12/26/2009:
Eleven midshipmen enrolled in the Naval
Academy's Principles of Propulsion/Nuclear course (EM300N) visited the Calvert
Cliffs Nuclear Propulsion Plant in Lusby, Maryland last month to
gain a better understanding, outside the classroom, of how a
nuclear power plant operates.
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Navy tops in selling bowl tickets
12/27/2009:
When it comes to selling postseason tickets, no college football
program in the country can compare to Navy. Navy has appeared in
seven straight bowl games and sold a total of 151,000 tickets
during that stretch. That is an average of 21,571 tickets per
year, an amazing figure that helped the Naval Academy Athletic
Association make money on postseason appearances despite the
significant costs associated with travel and lodging.
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Naval Academy
celebrates Army-Navy football tradition
12/28/2009:
Naval Academy midshipmen began the 130-mile journey to Philadelphia Dec.
11 for the 27th Army-Navy football run. The football run
originated in 1982 as an attempt to get 13th Company, the
"unlucky" company, out of the Academy. It became an annual tradition where the
midshipmen in 13th Company physically run the ball from Bancroft
Hall to the stadium hosting the Army-Navy game. The run is
dedicated to those who have served and continue to serve the
nation in a time of war.
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Navy bowl
ticket facts
12/29/2009:
In 2003, the Naval Academy brought 25,000 fans to the Houston Bowl and
nearly half of the student body attended the game. The crowd of
51,068 was a Houston Bowl record. In 2009, Navy will sell 18,000
bowl tickets to the Texas Bowl and will have more than 20,000
Navy fans in the stands.
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Watch
Texas Bowl game in Brookfield
12/30/2009:
WISNAPA
members, family and friends are invited to watch the
Texas Bowl game with the
Wisconsin USNAAA Chapter at
Champps
Americana Sports Bar, 1240 S. Moorland Rd. Brookfiled (1/2 mile south of I-94 on the corner of
Moorland Road and Greenfield Avenue) on Thursday, Dec.
31. Kick-off is scheduled for 2:30 p.m.
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Naval Academy
engineering students win first place
12/31/2009:
A team of honors systems engineering majors from the U.S. Naval Academy
won first place at the Semantic Robot Vision Challenge, Dec. 1,
in Las Vegas, Nevada. This was the first time a team from the
academy competed in the challenge.
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Go
Navy! Beat
Army!
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(Wisconsin
Naval Academy Parents' Association,
Inc.)
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