The roughly 1,200 optimistic, yet timid, young men and women of the U.S. Naval Academy’s class of 2029 arrived Thursday ...

Dirk Rumfelt, Syracuse, a graduate of Fairfield Junior/Senior High School, was inducted into the Naval Academy Class of 2029 ...

Dilynn Aubrey Untalasco, a graduate of St. John Paul II Catholic High School in Avondale, was inducted into the Naval Academy ...

The U.S. Naval Academy, ... Sea Trials conclude with the Herndon Monument Climb, where hundreds of first-year midshipmen take turns scaling a 21-foot obelisk covered in vegetable shortening.

The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, ... “Plebe year” (first year) students are generally free to choose their major, but at least 65% of commissioned graduates entering.

U.S. Naval Academy plebes cap their first year with greasy, grueling Herndon Climb 01:55. BALTIMORE -- Dozens of U.S. Naval Academy freshmen, known as plebes, gathered around a 21-foot-tall ...

After a rigorous six-week program that prepares first-year students, also known as plebes, ... Each detailer is a third or fourth-year Naval Academy student, responsible for 65 plebes.

U.S. Naval Academy Plebes work together during the annual Herndon Monument Climb on May 23, 2016 in Annapolis, Md. The Herndon Monument Climb is the culmination of the plebe year at the Naval ...