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...Fourth of July weekend approaches, I remember Independence Day last summer. My friends and I woke up at 5:30 a.m. to watch the morning plebe formation and look for our new plebe friends...
That evening, everybody went to see the Annapolis fireworks from the Academy’s seawall. The fireworks are the only fun event of Plebe Summer, so we knew Adam, Brad and Ryan would be there...
...fields of USNA are as frantic as downtown Annapolis is calm. I’m not alone as I jog along the seawall with the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in the distance—there are more than a thousand men and women far sweatier than I. These are the plebes: newly-minted high school graduates going into their first-year as midshipmen in the Naval Academy brigade. While their high school classmates spend the summer tanning, they head off to Annapolis for Plebe Summer. “Start your days at dawn and end them long after sunset, wondering...
...seem unnecessary to be so stringent with a group of 18-year-olds. But Plebe Summer is the indoctrination to four years at the Academy and years of service afterwards. The Academy stresses development “morally, mentally and physically.” Plebes learn to let go of emotion, to respect their superiors and each other, to think quickly under stress and be in top physical condition...
...actually cut from the soccer team his plebe year at West Point because of [the injury],” Wiger said. “He came up and played JV next year and subsequently passed up seven or eight guys on a very deep varsity to earn a starting position for his junior year...