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Don't give up the ship: CDR Squires' '75 battle with COVID-19 - January 2021
2021 Gerald R. Ford Award: David Robinson (Robinson '87) - January 2021
Brigade Commander on Goals for Naval Academy (Barber '21) - January 2021
We Who Love History Need to Bring It Alive (Braithwaite '84) - January 2021
Niceville native earns his wings (McWilliams '18) - January 2021
Pearl Harbor Submarine Crews Get COVID-19 Vaccine (Braithwaite '84) - January 2021
December 2020 WaveTops
El Paso Twins Make National News at Army-Navy (Esqueda '24) - December 2020
MIDN O'Loane '21 Awarded Marshall Scholarship - December 2020
Naval Academy Participates in RATE Study (Buck' 83) - December 2020
Football Uniforms For The Army Game Celebrate The 175th Anniversary - December 2020
Remembering Pearl Harbor - December 2020
NJ Firstie chosen for Rhodes Scholarship (Usadi '21) - December 2020
Wavetops - November 2020
Midshipmen Recieve Service Assignments - November 2020
First Black Female Brigade Commander 16th Female Selected (Barber '21) - November 2020
Naval Academy Cyber Operations Awarded NSA Designation - November 2020
Veteran's Day: A History - November 2020
Task Force 70 Conducts Change of Command (Pennington ’89) - November 2020
Wavetops - October 2020
Graduate makes American Dream possible for those in need (Plank '69) - October 2020
SECNAV Visits Palau (Braithwaite '84) - October 2020
NAVFAC Washington Selects Military Engineer of the Year (Dill '05) - October 2020
Navy Kicks Off Naval Sustainment System Supply (Lescher '80) - October 2020
Nimitz Connects With Space Station (Cassidy '93; Thomas '97) - October 2020
Hopper Hall, New Cyber Building, Officially Opens (Lahti ’89) - October 2020
Kathryn Hire is Mobile Bay Area Patriot of the Year (Hire '81) - October 2020
Navy Announces Plans For New Museum In Washington (Cox '80) - October 2020
CNO Demands Network Linking All Ships (Gilday '85) - October 2020
SECNAV Names Attack Boat After WWII USS Barb, DDG For Former SECNAV Lehman (Braithwaite '84) - October 2020
CNO Asks For Moment Of Silence In Honor Of USS Cole 20th Anniversary (Gilday '85) - October 2020
Story of First Black Female Plebe at USNA (Mines '80) - October 2020
In Memoriam: ADM Carlisle A.H. Trost ’53, USN (Ret.) - October 2020
USS Ronald Reagan Changes Commanders (Goldhammer '93) - October 2020
Meet NAS Patuxent River’s new executive officer (Kingsley ’96) - October 2020
September Wavetops - September 2020
Space Force May Be Possible For USNA Graduates (Garas '01) - September 2020
USNA RELEASES UPDATED FALL SEMESTER SCHEDULE - September 2020
Navy Commissions Destroyer Delbert D. Black (Braithwaite '84) - September 2020
Story of the USS KIDD - September 2020
EMALS tech. will help Navy accomplish mission (Crenshaw ’74) - September 2020
USNA Climbs U.S. News & World Report Rankings in 2021 - September 2020
Stockdale Leadership Award Recipients Announced (Wiley ’00; Geary ’00) - September 2020
Sacrifice For Peace: WWII Tribute (Lescher '80) - September 2020
Brigade will not attend Navy Football Home Opener - September 2020
At Military Academies, COVID-19 Is The Enemy To Be Defeated - September 2020
Navy Announces 3 Flag Assignments (Green '86; Wade '90) - August 2020
Artificial Intelligence Is the Next Top Gun (Stavridis '76) - August 2020
Capt. Moore Commanding Officer at NAS Meridian (Moore '97) - August 2020
August Wavetops - August 2020
Repairing USS Bonhomme Richard May Take Years (Hage '81) - August 2020
NAVSEC Visits New England Sub Building Sites (Braithwaite '84) - August 2020
USNA, St. Johns In Talks Over Midshipmen Housing (Garas '01) - August 2020
The Japanese Surrender: A Sailor’s Perspective (Stavridis '76) - August 2020
CNO On Connecting Tech, Recovering From Accidents (Gilday '85) - August 2020
3rd Fleet to Lead USS Bonhomme Richard Fire Investigation (Aquilino '84; Byrne '93) - August 2020
USS Hershel ‘Woody’ Williams Makes Stops in Naples (Black '86) - August 2020
Class of 2022 Parents' Weekend postponed indefinitely - August 2020
Littoral Combat Ship USS St. Louis Commissioning Ceremony (Braithwaite '84; Faller '83; Hagan '03) - August 2020
Midshipmen Will Return for Hybrid Learning Plan (Garas '01; Buck '83) - August 2020
Naval Academy’s ‘Plebe Summer’ Looks A Bit Different This Year (Buck '83) - August 2020
Those Who Battled Bonhomme Richard Blaze Risked All To Save Ship (Braithwaite '84) - August 2020
VADM Brown Retires (Brown '85) - August 2020
Captain Of The Navy's 6th Fleet Flagship Pulls Security Duty (Pollard '96) - August 2020
July Wavetops
Congress Awards Its Highest Honor To WWII Crew Of USS Indianapolis (Braithwaite '84; Toti '79) - August 2020
The Blue Angels Just Got Their 1st Super Hornet Jet In Aircraft Upgrade (Weisser '00) - August 2020
THE SKY IS THE LIMIT (Swegle '17) - July 2020
How A U.S. Navy Base In The Gulf Tackles Coronavirus (Smith '97) - July 2020
USS Eisenhower, Carrier Strike Group Head To Mediterranean Sea (Estes '95) - July 2020
How The Defense Department Is Reorganizing For Information Warfare (Gilday '85) - July 2020
Carrier Strike Groups Combining COMPTUEXes With Deployments (Kirk '90) - July 2020
Head Of U.S. Southern Command Weighs In On Regional Threats (Faller '83) - July 2020
USS Bonhomme Richard Updates (Gilday '85) - July 2020
Bonhomme Richard Is “Survivable,” (Gilday '85; Sobeck '91) - July 2020
U.S. Destroyer Conducts Second Freedom Of Navigation Operation Off Venezuela In A Month (Gabrielson '89) - July 2020
Bonhomme Richard Is “Survivable,” (Gilday '85; Sobeck '91) - July 2020
USS Detroit Completes Counter-Narcotics Deployment (Mack '00; Rossum '17; Gabrielson '89) - July 2020
Midshipmen To Return To USNA This Month (Garas '01; Buck '83) - July 2020
Fire On Navy Ship In San Diego Injures 21 People (Sobeck '91) - July 2020
Meet The Navy's First Female African American Tactical Jet Pilot (Swegle '17) - July 2020
Navy's New PRT Plank Event (Nowell '84; Richardson '82) - July 2020
USS Bunker Hill, USS Russell Return To San Diego (Thompson ’97) - July 2020
VADM Burkhalter Jr. '51 dies at 91 - July 2020
The U.S. Navy Shakes Up The Carrier Ford Program After Latest Setback (Metcalf '94) - July 2020
Navy Needs To Act More Quickly On Diversity And Inclusion, Personnel Chief Says (Nowell '84) - July 2020
June WaveTops - June 2020
Different but challenging: Naval Academy prepares for Induction Day and Plebe Summer - June 2020
Navy Pilots Finding A Way To Fly Through Pandemic (Meier '86) - June 2020
Sailors, Marines And Civilians Recognized For Response To Pensacola Shooting (Cozad '85; Nowell '84) - June 2020
Our Core Values: Special Committee - June 2020
VADM Tom Moore Retires After 39 Years (Galinis '83; Moore '81) - June 2020
USS Theodore Roosevelt, USS Nimitz Launch Dual-Carrier Flight Drills In Philippine Sea (Kirk '90) - June 2020
Naval Academy Commandant Uses Instagram to connect with Midshipmen - June 2020
SECNAV Pledges Support for Navy History Museum (Braithwaite '84; Cox '80) - June 2020
Plebes Finish Sea Trials Virtually - June 2020
A Message from ADM Samuel Locklear III ’77, USN (Ret.) - June 2020
NAVYCON Comes To Annapolis Coronavirus Style (Barron '10) - June 2020
2020 Navy-Notre Dame Football Game Will Not Be Played in Ireland - June 2020
Braithwaite Sworn In As Secretary Of The Navy (Braithwaite ’84) - June 2020
New Cyber Office Will Unify NAVSEA's Digital Efforts (Moore' 81 ; Richardson '82; Gilday '85) - June 2020
SECDEF Esper Tells USNA Grads Next Generation Fleet on the Way - May 2020
Reflection On Memorial Day (Gilday '85) - May 2020
Naval Academy Holds its First-Ever Virtual Graduation Event - May 2020
11 Naval Academy Varsity Sports Programs Receive NCAA APR Public Recognition - May 2020
Navy Grad On The Front Lines Of Coronavirus At Anne Arundel Medical Center (Bailey '91) - May 2020
Some Marines Stuck Abroad May Return Home Soon Following COVID-19 Deployment Disruption (Rankine-Galloway ’05) - May 2020
CNO Message to the Fleet (Gilday '85) - May 2020
TRIBUTE TO THE CLASS OF 2020 - May 2020
Spotlight:Application to I-Day - April 2020
April WaveTops - April 2020
MIDN Perry '20 Selected By Miama Dolphins in 7th round of NFL Draft - April 2020
USS Theodore Roosevelt Sailors Show Gratitude For Marines Support (Huerta '15) - April 2020
How More Ready Jets Is Helping the Navy Create Deadlier Pilots (Brophy '91) - April 2020
My Family Worried for Me While I Served Overseas. Now I worry for Them While They Serve on the Home Front (Stavridis '76) - April 2020
6 Essential Actions for Thriving in Close Quarters (Mills '91) - April 2020
Change of Command at NAVSEA Warfare Centers (Byrne '93; Ver Hage '91) - April 2020
Trump Names New Ambassador to Panama (Bethel '92) - April 2020
Amid Pandemic, Why USS Nimitz Is Critical To The Country's Defense (Clark '92) - April 2020
'A band of bad brothers': Class of 1952 reunites at Willow Valley - April 2020
Foggo: U.S. Military In All-New Territory In Fight Against Virus (Foggo '81) - April 2020
Tackling coronavirus is the next challenge for Penn cancer pioneer (June '75) - April 2020
Navy stadiums to participate in #LightItBlue Campaign - April 2020
Navy Hosts Virtual Industry Day To Keep Hammerhead Mine On Accelerated Acquisition Path (Moton '91) - April 2020
Apollo 13 remembered 50 years later (Lovell ’52) - April 2020
USNA Cancels All Public Commissioning Week 2020 Events - April 2020
CNO Message To The Fleet (Gilday '85) - April 2020
Modly Resigns Amidst Carrier Roosevelt Controversy; Army Undersecretary To Serve As Acting SECNAV (Modly ’83; Crozier ’92) - April 2020
7th Fleet Commander Visits COVID-19 Stricken Aircraft Carrier Docked On Guam (Merz '86) - April 2020
COVID-19 Pushing Navy To 100 Percent Virtual Recruiting (Nowell ’84) - April 2020
Navy Probe into Letter From Carrier Roosevelt CO; Report Says Crozier Has COVID-19 (Crozier '92; Modly '83) - April 2020
5 Questions With The Marine Corps’ Deputy (Reynolds '86, USMC) - April 2020
Senate Confirms New Leaders For Naval Forces Europe, Naval Intel, 5th & 2nd Fleets (Galinis '83; Moore '81; Foggo '81; Richardson '82) - April 2020
USNS Comfort Treats First Patients In New York (O’Brien ’93) - April 2020
March Wavetops - March 2020
USNS Comfort Will Depart for New York on Saturday with Trump, Modly in Attendance (Modly '83, USN) - March 2020
Navy Is Hardest-Hit Military Service In Coronavirus Outbreak (Modly '83, USN) - March 2020
DoD, Navy Trying to Keep Defense Industrial Base – and Workers – Healthy During COVID Pandemic (Moore ’81, USN; Gilday ’85, USN; Modly ’83, USN) - March 2020
Retired Captain Brings Navy’s Worst Sub Disaster Back To The Surface (Bryant '71, USN) - March 2020
NAVSEA Considering Changing Pricing Of Ship Maintenance Awards (Moore '81, USN; Gilday '85, USN) - February 2020
PACFLEET Commander: RIMPAC 2020 Will Be More Complex, Feature More Countries (Aquilino '84, USN) - February 2020
The U.S. Navy’s Top Officer Declares Support For Basing 6 Destroyers In Spain (Gilday '85, USN) - March 2020
Navy to Make Modest Personnel Contribution to Space Force, New Space Designator Likely (Brown '86, USN) - March 2020
USS Theodore Roosevelt Arrives In Vietnam, Becoming Second US Carrier To Visit Since The 1970s (Aquilino '84, USN) - March 2020
Hide And Seek At The Bottom Of The Sea: Navy Minesweepers Visit Juneau (Laney '00) - March 2020
SECNAV Modly '83, USN Says Nation Needs Larger, Distributed Fleet of 390 Hulls - March 2020
February WaveTops - February 2020
Navy & Marines Caught By Surprise By Esper’s Budget Cuts (Modly '83, USN; Gilday '85, USN) - February 2020
CENTCOM Limits Troop Travel In Middle East Due To Coronavirus Fears (Urban '97, USN) - February 2020
Navy's Malcom Perry sees path to the pros, and it could be with NY Giants (Perry '20) - February 2020
SECDEF Esper Talks About Delay Of New 355-Ship Fleet Outlook (Modly '83, USN; Gilday '85, USN) - February 2020
The Navy Has Installed The First Drone-Stopping Laser On A Destroyer (Pennington ’89, USN) - February 2020
USS Delbert D. Black Completes Builder’s Trials (Miller '96, USN) - February 2020
Digital Modernization Among the Money Savers That Could Help Navy Reach 355 Ships, Modly Says (Modly '83, USN) - February 2020
Midshipman Dies After Being Found Unresponsive at Naval Academy - February 2020
Opening of Cyber Foundry (White '87; Glavy '86; Gilday '85; Casey '97) - February 2020
Acting SECNAV Kicks Off Navy ‘Night Court’ Cost Savings Drive With Aim To Save $40 Billion (Modly '83) - February 2020
Admiral James Foggo '81, USN Awarded The Title Of 'Commendatore' Of The Order Of Merit Of The Italian Republic - February 2020
Midshipman Duke Carrillo '22 Memorialized, Buried At The Naval Academy Cemetery - February 2020
Navy Experiment: Can A Drone Ship Help Guard Naval Station Norfolk From Attackers? (Ashliman Jr. ’90) - February 2020
USMC to Shift Acquisition Strategies, Training for China Rivalry, Commandant Says (Perez '80) - February 2020
U.S. Admiral Hopes Philippine Security Pact Can Still Be Saved (Davidson '82) - February 2020
Dreamhack, ESL North America Announce Partnership With U.S. Navy (McLane '90) - February 2020
As China Expands Navy, US Stockpiles Missiles (Harris '78, Willard '73) - February 2020
Naval Academy Mourns the Death of Midshipman 3rd Class Duke Carrillo - February 2020
U.S. Navy Looks To Hire Thousands More Sailors As Service Finds Itself 9,000 Sailors Short At Sea (Nowell Jr. ’84, USN; Brown ’85, USN) - February 2020
In Memoriam: Roger E. Tetrault '63 - February 2020
USS Gerald R. Ford Completes, Passes Aircraft Compatibility Testing, Navy Says (Akacem '99) - February 2020
U.S. 7th Fleet's Command Ship Visits Busan (Merz ’86, USN) - February 2020
2nd Fleet Flexes Expeditionary Command and Control (Lewis '85) - February 2020
Naval Academy Adds Cadence Push-Ups, Planks to Fitness Test (Smotherman '88; Wright '01) - February 2020
USNA Grad Named USMC Female Athlete of 2019 (Herren '12) - February 2020
Sailors Work To Bring The USS Ford To Life (Akacem '99; Modly '83) - February 2020
USNA Grads Among Pilots in Super Bowl Flyover (Kitts '01; Bowens '99; Billings '10) - February 2020
January WaveTops - January 2020
Ship Selection 2020 - January 2020
Future of U.S. Carrier Fleet Key Issue as New Force Structure Moves Through Pentagon (Modly '83; Rowden '82) - January 2020
Governor Hogan Commemorates 175th Anniversary of the Naval Academy: (Buck ’83; Buchanan ’92) - January 2020
2020 Distinguished Graduates Announcement - January 2020
USNA Grad Paul Hudson '99 Killed In Tanker Crash Battling Austrailian Wildfires - January 2020
Toledo native takes over command of Navy submarine squadron (Majewski '96) - January 2020
Nimitz At Sea: Getting A New Crew Of Sailors Deployment Ready (Clark ’92) - January 2020
A Message from Bill the Goat - #GoNavyThankEveryone
Interview with Acting Secretary Thomas Modly '83 - January 2020
Navy Authorizes New Black Leather Jacket for Surface Warfare Officers (Nowell ’84; Brown ’85) - January 2020
In Memoriam: ADM Sylvester “Bob” Foley Jr. ’50, USN (Ret.) - January 2020
NASA's Astronuant Candidate with Ties to Naval Academy to Graduate with Eye on Artemis Missions (Barron '10) - January 2020
Leyte Gulf Returns to Norfolk After Nine Months Deployed (Musser ’96; Wade ’90) - January 2020
Three Navy Sisters Deploy in U.S. 5th - January 2020
Navy Victory Over Kansas State in Liberty Bowl - January 2020
Top Stories 2019: Navy and Pentagon Leadership (Richardson '82; Moran '81; Gilday '85; Modly '83; Braithwaite '84) - January 2020