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Students at these academies are organized as cadets, and graduate with appropriate licenses from the U.S. Coast Guard and/or the U.S. Merchant Marine.While not immediately offered a commission as an officer within a service, cadets do have the opportunity to participate in commissioning programs like the Strategic Sealift Officer Program (Navy) and Maritime Academy Graduate (Coast Guard).
Westchester Military Academy (TX) Western Military Academy (IL) Western Military Institute (KY & TN) Western Springs Military Academy; Westover Military Academy (VA) Weymans Military School (MO) Williams Military Academy (IL) Williamsburg Military Academy (VA) Wilmington Literary, Scientific and Military Academy (DE) Wilson Military Academy (NJ)
Chicago Military Academy-Bronzeville is a public four-year military high school located in the Bronzeville neighborhood located on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, in a building known as the Eighth Regiment Armory. The academy opened on August 24, 1999. [6]
Military training has changed considerably since the establishment of the first military academy in the 17th century. As such, it becomes more a matter of prestige and tradition rather than ...
The Military Academy, the Naval Academy, and the Air Force Academy all require an applicant to submit an online file and proceed through pre-candidate qualification before an application is provided. The Merchant Marine Academy requires an applicant to submit part 1 of the 3 part application prior to receiving a nomination.
The one-story building now known as the Kenney Gym Annex, the easternmost of the two structures, was built in 1889-90 as the Military Drill Hall and was designed by Nathan Clifford Ricker. The interior was converted for use as a gymnasium in 1914, at which time it became known as the Annex to the Men's Gym building next to it.
It is from this class society's historical base and the desire to emulate the best-known of all the class societies, Skull & Bones, that senior societies, in particular, began to spread nationally between 1900 and 1930. Junior, sophomore, and freshman class societies also are to be found at campuses across the country today.
The school was founded in 1947 by the Chicago Public Schools district [6] as George Washington Carver Area High School, a neighborhood high school.Carver was established to accommodate high school-age residents of the Chicago Housing Authority's Altgeld Gardens Homes public housing complex, which opened in the area west of the school's location in 1944.