I wish all of you that aspire to attend the Naval Academy the best of luck! I am 77 years old, Class of 1965, and am proud of many things. I am proud and honored to have served in Submarines with some of the best people I have ever known! I am proud of my children. But most of all, I am proud to have Graduated from the US Naval Academy and continue all these years living by the credo that I do not lie, cheat, nor steal - and I continue not to tolerate those that do so! Beat Army! *s/ Retired 24 Year US Navy Submariner - USNA Class of 1965 _ Former Enlisted Man*
I entered USMC boot camp in 1983. Many years later, of course I made it a priority to visit the USNA campus during a DC trip with my wife. Walking around campus was like visiting Shangri-La knowing the type of leadership I followed. I watched Gen Krulak pin on his first star, then followed him in the 2dFSSG efforts in the Gulf War. I also shook hands with Gen Hagee in my Iraq tour. Everything about their character stood out as a clear example.
its a privilege to know my classmates and very best friends who graduated from this fine institution. Go Navy! thank you class of '45 for funding this video.
This is so inspiring. First, I am so proud that my daughter is part of something so important and steeped in history. But I am also so proud that my daughter is led by the leaders that appear in this video. The Superintendent, the Commandant and the Academic Dean are all so profoundly strong and enlightened leaders. Great video.
YES! I’m proud to be a U.S.A. Navy Veteran! I served on NAS (Naval Air Stations) as an Aviation Electronic Technician! I have to say, this is when I transferred from a boy, to a man! The Navy has traditionally been the Linchpin for all other militaries, as it was the Navy transportation facilities that put the Solders to where the action took place!
Had Westside High School in Anderson ( Anderson County ) South Carolina ( Class of 1987) , had really and truly wanted Me to succeed in life, especially, when I was not good at Math , English and Science, I would have not merely settled for a mere Marine Corps Enlistment, and, as an Enlisted Marine, would have applied for either The U. S. Naval Academy or U. S. Military Academy, and in the case of the latter, I would have spoken with the Navy Liaison at West Point, New York, and, requested a Commission as a Second Lieutenant ( 0-1E) in the Marine Corps, but, oh well, it is what it is. Semper Fidelis!!🇺🇸🦅🌎⚓
"If you're not evolving with the time, you're going to become irrelevant." "...you either adjust, or you become obsolete." ...and they're not kidding, either. One in the navy either accepts freely, without any mental reservation, or purpose of evasion, that lessons learned over 200 years of warfighting must and will be shit-canned, as required, to accommodate the desires, the demands and the whims of one special interest, or another--with no meaningful pushback from senior management, or discussion as to how such changes might affect our readiness and our warfighting capability--or one quickly adapts to civilian life. Take it from one who became as irrelevant and obsolete as morality itself while serving in the old nyvee.
The Marine Corps is a branch of the Navy and you should know that first . So yeah you can. Secondly don’t be a polishing officer when artillery or air support is required. Send it and take your political punishment.
WTF! "Not swearing an oath to a particular system of government..." Pull you head out Maj. Lampert, we ALL swear an OATH to the CONSTITUTION!!! ~ USNA '73
Nice vid, but not much history presented. Unfortunately the place is in sad disrepair and has not been maintained or upgraded to 21st century standards as a result of continual Pentagon-directed budget reductions from previous D.C. administrations. It's been reported some areas haven't been touched since its original construction. As a result, it'll take a massive amount of time and money to get it ship-shape. Meanwhile its life and demand for acceptance goes on supported by image, brand, and honor.
1:35 the Major made an error. There is no oath to a democracy whatever. The United States is defined as a constitutional republic with limited democratic processes underlying. If the United States was a democracy it would have ended long before April 12, 1861. That is a serious error on his part as well as a reflection of those before him.
Listen, I think this was a good video, but it has very little to do with the actual founding of the Naval Academy and more about its present mission and modern challenges.
I’m seeing the sexualization of the naval academy in modern times. And that will absolutely have a negative effect on morale and brotherhood, on unit cohesion in battle. I can remember being an enlisted Marine during the 1980s, and I can remember feeling squeamish about fellow Marines listening to overtly sexualized music by performers who made a point of being androgynous. And that’s because there is no way to make sexuality into a “group thing”, unless you’re talking about the actual orgies that went on in the Tailhook Scandal. Well, instead of learning from that infamous scandal-instead of realizing both genders don’t work together equally well in all circumstances-the navy has since made it about 100 times worse. And the result is an institution where you no longer have Christian virtues to strive for, but instead some sort of anything-goes “rainbow religion” that creates an obsequious and groveling soldier who can’t really see beyond the material (quite a disadvantage when you’re in a career not known for “great income”). It creates an officer who can easily be bought by persons in the private sector, promised lucrative board seats by defense contractors in exchange for altering military objectives in the immediate-going out of his way to make a war more hostile, yet also more profitable for the MIC (another Vietnam, in other words). Yet instead of correcting this problem (and I’m far from the only person complaining), the navy goes out of its way to barrage the public with PR insisting that this isn’t really happening-or if it is then it doesn’t matter. Instead of curing the disease a more cunning band-aid is offered; instead admitting the patient is now a corpse a more appealing layer of makeup is added. Eventually you’ll start to see mutinies-these, at crucial times in battle. And not just mutinies, but outright sedition leading to a junta-major portions of US military turning against our civilian government, much as the cossacks turned against the Tsar’s police in the Bolshevik Revolution. Think I’m joking? Whatever the founding fathers intended our armed forces to be, it was not a Roman orgy where every soldier has a paramour and they’ll all work under the table for post-enlistment positions-even if the corporation has sizable foreign investors. Rather, they were meant to be a dignified home for patriots who could keep their private life as stable as whatever ship they had manned.
"Adjust with the times or become irrelevant." You mean because homosexual behavior and transgender dysphoria didn't exist in nearly every culture in every age before the first quarter of the 21st century? 5:07 How can you possibly equate race with people who identify themselves by their sexual behavior, Reuben? The two are not remotely the same. If I'm an axe murderer, how come I don't get full rights to be a midshipman? You're discriminating against me because I killed someone with an axe in one moment of an otherwise well-lived life? How is that fair? Homosexuality is a behavior, not an identity. A person is created in the "image and likeness of God" (Genesis 1:28). His behavior is not (Gen 3:6). Homosexual behavior starts from early adolescence--because Johnny's parents didn't take effective corrective action when he whacked off with his boyhood friends behind the apartment complex on summer afternoons enforcing the neurons in the pleasure centers of his brain creating an associative addicted behavior that was easier than dealing with the drama of girls. While there are always exceptions in nature, the rampant fake homosexuality in the United States has become the product of horrible parenting, a dysfunctional education system, and above all a loss of God's light in people who have rejected their own Creator. It has become an excuse for people of disordered character. Suicide statistics clearly show that those who engage in sexually disordered behavior are much prone to suicide--because conscience, the great equalizer, won't let you lie to yourself without psychological and spiritual consequences---and yet here in our new lost America, we accept their behavior because we can't tell the difference between accepting the person vs. the behavior. So, we're going to put weapons in their hands. Adjusting with the times does not mean adjusting stupidly, but when you lose the light of God's grace, you lose the light which guides the right paths of human endeavor. Do we think we're the first society to ever reject that Light? How arrogant. "But when the Son of Man returns will he find any faith?" (Luke 18:8).
