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U.S. Naval Academy campus Plebes (first year students) marching in front of Bancroft Hall Interior of the Naval Academy chapel The pool in the Lejeune Hall The campus (or "Yard") has grown from a 40,000 square metres (9.9 acres) Army post named Fort Severn in 1845 to a 1.37 square kilometres (340 acres) campus in the 21st century.
The STA-21 commissioning program is designed to allow active-duty sailors with high ability to gain a college education and become commissioned officers in the unrestricted line (URL), special duty officer (intelligence), special duty officer (cryptologic warfare, formerly information warfare and cryptologist), nurse corps (NC), nuclear, supply corps (SC), civil engineer corps (CEC), explosive ...
The admissions process to the U.S. service academies is an extensive and very competitive process. 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.
A federal judge on Friday ruled that the U.S. Naval Academy may continue to consider race when evaluating candidates to attend the elite military school, even after last year's U.S. Supreme Court ...
“The Academy has proven that this national security interest is indeed measurable and that its admissions program is narrowly tailored to meet that interest.” Bennett noted that demographics are a minor factor in Naval Academy admissions — no one is admitted solely on the basis of race.
A federal judge has rejected a challenge to the Naval Academy’s use of race in its admissions practices, ruling that the school has “established a compelling national security interest” in ...
SFFA sued the Naval Academy in October 2023, a few months after the Supreme Court effectively ended race-conscious admissions policies at civilian colleges and universities nationwide by ruling ...
Prior to World War I, Marine officers came primarily from the Naval Academy or were commissioned from the enlisted ranks. But as the Marine Corps expanded, it needed its own training pipeline for officers. OCS traces its roots to the "School of Application," established in 1891 in Washington, D.C.