T-7 days to Iday class of 2027!!!!

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2023: I-Day Class of 2027

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (June 29, 2023) The U.S. Naval Academy welcomes the midshipman candidates, or plebes, of the class of 2027 during Induction Day 2023. I-Day marks the beginning of a demanding six-week indoctrination period called Plebe Summer, intended to transition the candidates from civilian to...
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Photos are being posted, folks!

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The majority look so serious, then I see a couple of guys chatting and grinning. Friends already.
 
I'm hearing the speech twice, like row row row your boat!!! Ha!! :jump1: See what I did there!!!!
 
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
 
HAVING BEEN APPOINTED A MIDSHIPMAN IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY,
DO YOU SOLEMNLY SWEAR (OR AFFIRM) THAT YOU WILL SUPPORT AND DEFEND
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN
AND DOMESTIC; THAT YOU WILL BEAR TRUE FAITH AND ALLEGIANCE TO THE
SAME; THAT YOU TAKE THIS OBLIGATION FREELY, WITHOUT ANY MENTAL
RESERVATION OR PURPOSE OF EVASION; AND THAT YOU WILL WELL AND
FAITHFULLY DISCHARGE THE DUTIES OF THE OFFICE ON WHICH YOU ARE
ABOUT TO ENTER, SO HELP YOU GOD.
 
Yeah, I miss the "FULL SPEED AHEAD" part. That's my favorite behind the resounding "I DO".
It was super short.
 
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