1 / 3 Show Caption + Hide Caption – After a five-week delay due to COVID-19 circumstances, cadets from the U.S. Military Academy Class of 2021 finally received their class rings during the Ring ...

The tradition of wearing a class ring originated at the U.S. Military Academy in 1835 and continued Aug. 24, 2012, at Trophy Point with the Class of 2013, at the U.S. Military Academy at West ...

A military hero’s piece of jewelry was lost for more than 7 decades on Fort Benning, but what happened next is like something out of the movies.

A Rhode Island refinery melted class rings donated by U.S. Military Academy graduates on Monday in an annual tradition, so the gold can be used for new class rings.

That ceremony, known as the “ring melt,” is a tradition begun for the rings of West Point’s bicentennial class in 2002. Since then, it’s not just any gold that goes into these rings.

A recent search for "West Point ring" yielded two results: a sterling silver U.S. Military Academy napkin ring, and what's listed as a "perfect" 14-carat West Point Class of '45 ring.