Word: annapolises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief Specialist John Geston, in charge of the Naval Sci conditioning classes, was made a junior grade Lieutenant in the Naval Reserve and will leave today for Annapolis for similar work there.
With all the color and pageantry of a combined Annapolis-West Point display, Harvard's 1600 men of war, swinging into line yesterday for the largest full-dress military review in the University's history, showed the thousands who looked on that Harvard is doing its share in the war...
Naval promotions are passed upon by nine-men Selection Boards. If a man is "passed over" twice, he is retired at the end of a prescribed period. Although only some 50% of all Navy officers are Annapolis graduates, Annapolis men dominate most Selection Boards. In awarding promotions, they seem invariably...
An extreme example of the Annapolis clan spirit is the Green Bowlers, a secret fraternity of Annapolis men dominated by the single idea of helping one another up the naval ladder. Composed of top-flight graduates in each class, the cabal of Green Bowlers was started in 1909, has been...
There is no real evidence yet of injury to the Navy's wartime fighting strength by the system's operation, inequitable as it may seem. This is cited by Navy brasshats as their side of the story. Another brasshat argument is that just because a man went to...