The Midshipmens Story

Author : Jacqui Murray
Publisher : Structured Learning
ISBN 13 : 097878006X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building a Midshipman written by Jacqui Murray and published by Structured Learning. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the thousands of students who apply every year for one of the four military academies, slogging through the numbing concatenation of decisions preceding a nomination, there is no greater intimidation than the statistically likely event that they will try and fail. Thats an examination into the pithiness of moral fiber important to the USNA, and eulogized by James Stockdale, USNA 46 and Medal of Honor Winner: "The test of character is not 'hanging in there' when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel, but performance of duty and persistence of example when you know that no light is coming. This is the true story of how one All-American kidlike those many that applydid it. She had no idea she could aim so high and succeed so succinctly. Her research into the typical Midshipman uncovered a profile alarmingly like herself. If she dreamt of attending a college where she fit in and attracted kindred souls, this qualified. When you first meet Meaghan, you may wonder, why does she think an Ivy League school will accept her? She doesnt earn straight As or play quarterback on the football teamor center on the volleyball squad. I describe in detail her background, her academic interests, her focus, as well as her struggle to put together a winning admissions package. Along the way, you gain insight into the moral fiber that grounds everything she does and allows her to fight the good fight. The support from family and friends, and decisions she must make that superficially appear impossible for an adolescent, but are in fact achievable for thousands of like-minded teens.

Author : Mark C. Hunter
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 9781591143970
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Society of Gentlemen written by Mark C. Hunter and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark C. Hunter makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the evolution of professional standards in the U.S. armed forces with this social history of U.S. naval officer education at Annapolis. Combining statistical and scholarly analysis based on original research, he reveals that through the Naval Academy, the Navy in 1845 initiated a more structured form of education in order to assess potential officers on academic and practical seamanship skills. His findings show that by the 1850s the Academy had established summer cruises and school ships to teach navigation and command skills to recruits taken from civilian life. This study offers a detailed analysis of antebellum Naval Academy alumni, including their backgrounds and disciplinary records while students at Annapolis. Hunter enlivens this statistical data to provide insight into the personal lives of these young officers by drawing on the letters of midshipmen and the autobiographies of famous naval officers.

Author : Harry Hayden Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.1I/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midshipman Stanford written by Harry Hayden Clark and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Feintuch
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453295607
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midshipman's Hope written by David Feintuch and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in the military science fiction series that does “an excellent job of transferring Hornblower to interstellar space. A thoroughly enjoyable read” (David Drake). In the year 2194, seventeen-year-old Nicholas Seafort is assigned to the Hibernia as a lowly midshipman. Destination: the thriving colony of Hope Nation. But when a rescue attempt goes devastatingly wrong, Seafort is thrust into a leadership role he never anticipated. The other officers resent him, but Seafort must handle more dangerous problems, from a corrupted navigation computer to a deadly epidemic. Even Hope Nation has a nasty surprise in store. Seafort might be the crew’s only hope . . . This page-turning science fiction in the vein of Robert Heinlein and Orson Scott Card—with a dash of Horatio Hornblower—marks the captivating debut adventure in Feintuch’s hugely popular Seafort Saga.

Author : Robert J. Schneller, Jr.
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814740553
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breaking the Color Barrier written by Robert J. Schneller, Jr. and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African-American Community's Battle to Combat the U.S. Naval Academy's Legacy of Racism

Author : Frederick Marryat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. Midshipman Easy written by Frederick Marryat and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas McCaffery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736332627
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Midshipmen's Story written by Thomas McCaffery and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IIn 1842 Midshipman Phillip Spencer, USN, son of the Secretary of War, was hung for inciting the crew of USS Somers to mutiny. Since then U.S. Navy midshipmen have not been crew members of any commissioned U.S. Navy ship at any time, but especially in combat. That is, until 1941, when the needs of the oncoming war required a small change in the U.S. Navy's century-old policy. That summer, fifty students at what would become the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, known as Cadet/Midshipmen, were assigned as midshipmen to U.S. Navy amphibious transports. The assignment, as with all midshipmen in history, was originally for training. However, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor changed everything. On August 7, 1942 six of these midshipmen were on duty at Guadalcanal for America's first amphibious offensive against the Japanese. Two of them, Edward S. Davis and Robert H. Dudley, were ordered to abandon their ship, USS George F. Elliott, after a Japanese bomber crashed into it, starting an uncontrollable fire. In the aftermath of the Navy's defeat at Savo Island that night, the transports, and their midshipmen, were forced to retreat to safer waters, leaving the Marines with just half of their supplies and equipment to carry on the fight. But, the Marines couldn't just be abandoned to their fate. Unable to return to Guadalcanal in force, covert plans were hurriedly improvised by the Navy to resupply them. One of these plans was to slip a former inter-island freighter, M/V Lakatoi, past the watchful Japanese into Guadalcanal. Commissioned USS Lakatoi, the ship and its volunteer Navy crew, including Midshipmen Edward Davis and Robert Dudley, set sail on a desperate, impossible mission from which none of its crew believed they would return. In summing up their remarkable story, Vice Admiral William F. Halsey wrote, "The Commanding Officer and members of the crew of the U. S. S. LAKATOI displayed fortitude and heroism in keeping with the best traditions of the service."

Author : Kristin Cronic
Publisher : Easel on Stribling
ISBN 13 : 9781736494219
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Midshipman's Journal: Pages and Prompts to Capture Your United States Naval Academy Story written by Kristin Cronic and published by Easel on Stribling. This book was released on 2021-02-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Midshipman's Journal" is a 158 page notebook with full color paintings by Kristin Cronic with Easel on Stribling, and corresponding question prompts to help you capture your United States Naval Academy story.

Author : Marryat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. Midshipman Easy written by Marryat and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Latimer Beach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781294202752
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midshipman Ralph Osborn at Sea written by Edward Latimer Beach and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Midshipman Ralph Osborn At Sea: A Story Of The U.S. Navy; May G. Quigley Collection Edward Latimer Beach null Frank Thayer Merrill W.A. Wilde Company, 1910 History; Military; United States; History / Asia / Southeast Asia; History / Military / Naval; History / Military / United States; Midshipmen; Philippines