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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.
Kenneth R. Force, Captain, USMS (March 24, 1940 – October 7, 2023) was band director of the United States Merchant Marine Academy Regimental Band from 1971 to 2016. [1] [2] The New York Times described him as "something of a Toscanini of military marching bands" [1] [3] and a "human encyclopedia of military ceremonial and musical data."
The Secretaries Cup is an annual college football game in the northeast United States between the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. [3] Both academies compete in NCAA Division III athletics. [4] The Secretaries Cup is an intense rivalry game for both schools. [5]
The academy offered an exchange program to Shanghai Maritime University, an 18,000-student school situated next to a deep-water port. Cadets would spend 100 days in the Shanghai program taking maritime business, law, and marketing classes and exploring the country to gain the experience they would need in the international maritime field.
Pages in category "United States Merchant Marine Academy superintendents" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The United States Merchant Marine Academy Regimental Band marching in review for the 2017 United States presidential inauguration parade. The band for decades represented the academy at presidential inaugural parades. [8] The band plays an essential in the "Ceremony of Beating Retreat", which is a military tattoo based in British roots.
The school, renamed the New York State Merchant Marine Academy in 1929, finally became land-based in 1938 at the Maritime College's present Throggs Neck campus in Fort Schuyler. One of Franklin D. Roosevelt 's last acts as Governor of New York State was to sign the act turning Fort Schuyler and the Throggs Neck peninsula over to the school for ...
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, were greatly curtailed. The government didn't contribute any new money into the program, which gives food for low-income pregnant women, mothers, and young children. Some states were able to keep running the program with current money for about a week. [11]