Word: navales
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...gold class rings they earned when they graduated from one of America's military academies. For generations the ring signified that the wearer was a cut above. No longer: the ring knockers are losing their grip on the armed forces. When Admiral Jeremy Boorda becomes chief of naval operations this month, five of the six Joint Chiefs of Staff will be nonacademy men who have come up through the enlisted ranks or from officer- training programs...
...Naval Academy Expulsions...
More than a year after the U.S. Naval Academy learned of widespread cheating on a December 1992 exam, a Navy panel recommended expelling 29 midshipmen and disciplining 42 others. The final decision will be up to the Secretary of the Navy...
...received a glimpse of military life, from running the obstacle course to discussing the politics of elections with a professor to "flaming," a high pressure activity which takes place during Plebe Summer (mandatory training before your freshman year at the Naval Academy) and is as unpleasant as it sounds...
Koma B. Gandy '95 is a midshipman in Naval ROTC. She is a government concentrator living in Mather House...