The Naval Academy Class of 2028 completed the annual Herndon monument climb in a time of 2:27:31 and are “Plebes no more!” ...

The culmination of a midshipmen’s academic career at the U.S. Naval Academy — graduation and commissioning —  comes with ...

It was a big day Friday in Annapolis as the Class of 2024 graduated ... Since 1845, about 91,000 midshipmen have graduated from the Naval Academy.

Midshipmen have continued that legacy of perseverance each year since 1962 by climbing the monument. The Naval Academy Class of 2028 completed the annual Herndon monument climb in a time of 2:27: ...

The climb coincides with the roughly 14-hour-long Sea Trials and is the true culminating event of their plebe year, the ...

A lard-covered obelisk is more than a slippery slope for U.S. Naval Academy plebes, who view it as a rite of passage that changes them into midshipmen.

I went to the U.S. Naval Academy because I believed in the values laid out in its mission: to develop midshipmen morally ... In 1992, I sat in uniform as our professors walked us through the ...

The Naval Academy's class of 2025 includes about 1,000 midshipmen. They received their service assignments in November 2024. A total of 787 were assigned to the Navy, and another 262 were assigned ...