United States Naval Academy
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The United States Naval Academy (USNA) in Annapolis is a highly selective federal service academy best known for training future officers for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, offering a fully funded undergraduate education with premier academic programs in engineering, cyber science, and national security. Student life on the historic waterfront campus, known as "the Yard," is characterized by a rigorous, highly disciplined military lifestyle where all Midshipmen participate in mandatory athletics and leadership development while building lifelong bonds of camaraderie. What truly distinguishes USNA from civilian universities is that all 4,500 students live together in Bancroft Hall—one of the largest single dormitories in the world—and graduate debt-free in exchange for a five-year active-duty service commitment as military officers.
Wikipedia:The United States Naval Academy is a federal service academy adjacent to Annapolis, Maryland. It was established on 10 October 1845 during the tenure of George Bancroft as Secretary of the Navy. The Naval Academy is the second oldest of the five U.S. service academies and it educates midshipmen for service in the officer corps of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. It is part of the Naval University System. 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. The entire campus, known colloquially as the Yard, is a National Historic Landmark and home to many historic sites, buildings, and monuments. It replaced Philadelphia Naval Asylum in Philadelphia that had served as the first United States Naval Academy from 1838 to 1845, at which time the Naval Academy formed in Annapolis.
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