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The United States Navy, like any organization, produces its own acronyms and abbreviations, which often come to have meaning beyond their bare expansions. United States Navy personnel sometimes colloquially refer to these as NAVSpeak. Like other organizational colloquialisms, their use often creates or reinforces a sense of esprit and closeness ...
The Naval District Washington-Naval Support Activity Annapolis Police Department, formerly known as the US Naval Academy Police Department until 2010, is a full DOD law enforcement agency. It is composed of both DoD Department of Navy Civilian Police, and Navy Masters-at-Arms who are responsible for policing the US Naval Academy complex. They ...
USCGC – United States Coast Guard Cutter; USMA – United States Military Academy (U.S. Army) at West Point, New York; USMC – United States Marine Corps; USN – United States Navy; USNA – United States Naval Academy (U.S. Navy) at Annapolis, Maryland; USO – United Service Organizations (U.S. Military) USR – Unit Status Report
The United States service academies, also known as United States military academies, are federal academies for the undergraduate education and training of commissioned officers for the United States Armed Forces. There are five U.S. service academies: The United States Military Academy (USMA) in West Point, New York, founded in 1802
The Ticket Office was established in 1660 as part of the Navy Office. It administered the payment of naval wages in conjunction with the Navy Pay Office until 1829, when it was merged with the Office for Seamen's Wages where it became the Ticket and Wages Branch. [1] The office was administered by the Manager of Ticket Office, later by the ...
Alumni Hall is an indoor stadium at the United States Naval Academy, in Annapolis in the U.S. state of Maryland.Completed in 1991, it seats 5,710 and serves as the primary assembly hall for the Brigade of Midshipmen.
"The Naval Academy has established a compelling national security interest in a diverse officer corps in the Navy and Marine Corps," Bennett wrote in a 179-page ruling.
This list is drawn from alumni of the Naval Academy who are recipients of the Medal of Honor (MOH), the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. The Academy was founded in 1845 and graduated its first class in 1846. The first alumnus to graduate and go on to receive the Medal of Honor was Harry L. Hawthorne (class of ...