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The United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA or Kings Point) is a United States service academy in Kings Point, New York. It trains its midshipmen (as students at the academy are called) to serve as officers in the United States Merchant Marine , branches of the United States Armed Forces , and the transportation industry.
The United States Merchant Marine Academy's intercollegiate sports teams are called the Mariners and they compete in the Division III of the NCAA, generally as once a charter member of the Landmark Conference. [1] In 2016, they returned to the Skyline Conference in all sports. Men's sports include baseball, football, basketball, cross country ...
The United States Naval Academy (USNA) in Annapolis, Maryland, founded in 1845; The United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) in New London, Connecticut, founded in 1876; The United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) in Kings Point, New York, founded in 1943; The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) in Colorado Springs, Colorado, founded ...
The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy’s next superintendent will be the first woman appointed to the position in the institution’s nearly 80-year history, the U.S. Transportation Department ...
At viewer's far left, Rear Admiral Thomas A. King, 6th Superintendent of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, at awards ceremony. Thomas A. King (1921 – April 5, 2012), Rear Admiral (United States), was the first graduate of the United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) at Kings Point, New York (1942) to become its Superintendent [1] He was the 6th Superintendent of the USMMA ...
The United States Merchant Marine [1] [2] is an organization composed of United States civilian mariners and U.S. civilian and federally owned merchant vessels.Both the civilian mariners and the merchant vessels are managed by a combination of the government and private sectors, and engage in commerce or transportation of goods and services in and out of the navigable waters of the United ...
The Merchant Marine Expeditionary Medal is awarded to U.S. merchant seamen who serve on U.S.-flag ships in support of operations involving American and allied military forces. The medal is not specific to a certain military operation or conflict, but the award citation would give such details. [ 2 ]
The United States Merchant Marine Academy Regimental Band, designated as "George M. Cohan's Own", [1] is a United States military band and college marching band that currently serves as the official marching band of the United States Merchant Marine Academy. The USMMA is the only service academy outside of the six senior military colleges, to ...