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

The U.S. Naval Academy welcomed approximately 1,200 plebes, or freshman, members into the Class of 2029 when they reported ...

The Naval Academy Class of 2028 reunites with their families for the first time since Plebe Summer began six weeks ago for Plebe Parents Weekend.

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

Roughly 1,200 incoming midshipmen arrived in Annapolis on Thursday for the kickoff of the U.S. Naval Academy’s Class of 2029 ...

A member of the U.S. Naval Academy’s first year class wears an upperclassman hat as she and fellow plebes climb the Herndon Monument, a granite obelisk coated with a thick layer of vegetable ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (7News) — The U.S. Naval Academy's Class of 2028 successfully completed the Herndon Monument Climb on Wednesday morning, marking the end of their Plebe Year. The climb, a storied ...

First-year students at the U.S. Naval Academy are taking part in the annual Herndon Monument Climb on Wednesday, a ritual that marks the end of their plebe year and some say foreshadows career ...

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The climb began in 1940, and the placement of an officer’s cap atop the obelisk to show they had conquered the plebe year came seven years later, according to a history of the event by James ...