services, and the services of allied nations. Graduates are commissioned as either ensigns in the Navy or second lieutenants in the Marine Corps, but a small number can also be cross-commissioned as officers in other U.S. Approximately 1,200 "plebes" (an abbreviation of the Ancient Roman word plebeian) enter the academy each summer for the rigorous Plebe Summer. Tuition for midshipmen is fully funded by the Navy in exchange for an active duty service obligation upon graduation. Students are officers-in-training with the rank of midshipman. Ĭandidates for admission generally must apply directly to the academy and apply separately for a nomination, usually from a member of Congress. It replaced Philadelphia Naval Asylum in Philadelphia that had served as the first United States Naval Academy from 1838 to 1845 when the Naval Academy formed in Annapolis. The entire campus, known colloquially as the Yard, is a National Historic Landmark and home to many historic sites, buildings, and monuments.
The 338-acre (137 ha) campus is located on the former grounds of Fort Severn at the confluence of the Severn River and Chesapeake Bay in Anne Arundel County, 33 miles (53 km) east of Washington, D.C., and 26 miles (42 km) southeast of Baltimore. service academies and it educates midshipmen for service in the officer corps of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. The Naval Academy is the second oldest of the five U.S. It was established on 10 October 1845 during the tenure of George Bancroft as Secretary of the Navy. The United States Naval Academy ( US Naval Academy, USNA, or Navy) is a federal service academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
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