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I will be starting a stint at USNA and thus figure that my occasional commentary on Service Academy Forums should come to an end. (Among other things, I need to be better about modeling working without online distractions!) This is a great site and has a lot of shared wisdom to offer...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/07/us/raised-fist-photo-by-black-women-at-west-point-spurs-inquiry.html?_r=0 Read this in the NY Times regarding a faux "old timey" group photo in which black women cadets have their fists raised -- USMA now is apparently investigating whether they were engaging...

Looking for Lucky Fourteen for the mids today. Good luck to Navy Football, including (but not limited to, as the lawyers say) the 15 out of 32 seniors who have service selected USMC!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/05/us/at-west-point-annual-pillow-fight-becomes-weaponized.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news Uh, oh. The New York Times got hold of the story that 30 plebes were injured in the annual plebe pillow...

Napsters report to USNA tomorrow. Good luck, especially for those Napsters coming from the Fleet or the Corps. Can still remember how much the prior enlisted Napsters in our Plebe Summer platoon and squad helped all of us "decks"* (Direct entry clueless kids). * caution: Do not use...

With Navy Football Service Selections in, http://www.navysports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/112114aaa.html, the fact that over 50% of the football seniors have chosen Marine Corps Ground is a good omen for Navy's execution of the triple option in the 2014 Army-Navy game. Of course, Army knows...

Hello, fellow warriors. I've got a HS buddy in OCS at Benning and I want to drop him a line. I've got a street mailing address for him but would like to know what salutation to use for him: "Officer Candidate Doe, John"? "Officer Candidate John Doe"? "Officer Cadet etc." I'd prefer not to...

For want of a better title, I'm really curious about what the different service academies do differently. I am hoping people can chime in with some real analysis, not just good old venting! Some variables I can think of that account for the rise and fall of football fortunes: 1...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/25/us/edwin-a-shuman-iii-former-prisoner-of-war-who-defied-hanoi-hilton-guards-dies-at-82.html?hp Navy Commander Edwin A. Schuman III, USNA '54, who led fellow prisoners in the Hanoi Hilton in a Christmas prayer service in defiance of their guards.

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In your downtime when you're not running, doing abs, and doing pushups, and since you won't be cramming Reef Points because the Navy store isn't selling it online any more, here are two books that I highly recommend for any incoming plebe who wants to have a sense of the "real" history of the...

I saw some Sea Trials photos on the USNA Facebook page and it brought back a lot of memories. I just wanted to say, as much as I love tradition (you better if you end up in the USMC), it shouldn't hold back a willingness to explore change. Sea Trials is only about a decade old, but it's...