The roughly 1,200 optimistic, yet timid, young men and women of the U.S. Naval Academy’s class of 2029 arrived in Annapolis for Plebe Summer.

Jonathan Guerrero, a graduate of Irvington High School was inducted into the Naval Academy Class of 2029 Thursday, June 26th, ...

The roughly 1,200 optimistic, yet timid, young men and women of the U.S. Naval Academy’s class of 2029 arrived in Annapolis for Plebe Summer.

Michael John Daley, son of Mike and Megan Daley, was inducted into the U.S. Naval Academy Class of 2029. He is now serving in ...

ANNAPOLIS — Roughly 1,200 incoming midshipmen arrived in Annapolis on Thursday for the kickoff of the U.S. Naval Academy’s Class of 2029 Plebe Summer. Many will spend most of their time on ...

(I)t is 100% worth it,” Scott Belveal, a West Point graduate from Radnor, said. “I would not go back and change a thing about ...

Plebe Summer is a six-week, physically intense training period for freshmen to learn Naval Academy basics like seamanship skills, navigation, damage control and how to shoot a variety of weapons.

Five recent area high school graduates – Jake Hooten, Hudson Mitchell, Aidan Baker, Julia Frosch and Arman Truitt – will soon embark on their next journey at the Naval Academy.

And, then during the summer, she sprained her ankle. “It was definitely hard for me to adjust for the last two weeks,” she said of the plebe summer and her ankle injury.

The names vary by school — the Beast, Plebe Summer — whatever the intense immersion programs at U.S. military academies are called, they’re a long way from familiar surroundings at tiny ...