Featured Stories

Now that's a job! Andrew Dietzel, Westwood (MA) High School graduate and MMA '07, Marine Transportation major, is a commissioned U. S. Navy Lieutenant. He is also one sea loving, world traveling recent grad who has upped the ante on adventure ... in just two years. Today he is the Anti Terrorism Officer aboard the USS Oscar Austin (DDG 79) - a guided missile destroyer, responsible for the security of the entire ship. Dietzel is also in charge and a member of the Visit, Board, Search and Seizure Team, a highly trained spe...[more]

Veteran honors lives of two missing Green Berets There is one way that Veterans Day will be like many other days for retired Air Force Brigadier General John Flanagan. He will think, as he often does, about two soldiers he served with in Vietnam more than 40 years ago. They will not be happy thoughts. Flanagan, who has owned houses in Falmouth since 1965, is like other veterans who have lived to tell - or not tell - about their experiences in combat. They are proud that they served and glad - sometimes with accompanying guilt - that they survived. They...[more]

Hot Hobby! ...and part time passion for Rob Munstis, Whitman-Hanson Regional High, '97 and MMA, '01. He turned his Marine Science and Environmental Protection degree into something unique indeed. Today he is a Marketing Manager for a Weymouth, MA manufacturing company and, in his spare time, author of a well known sports blog [Red Sox], The Bottom Line. A sports nut from birth, Munstis excelled at both track and soccer during high school and college. "After graduating from MMA, I was offered a rare opportunity to ...[more]

Nautical Gusto 2005 grad and Marine Transportation major, Hedi Marzougui, is working his way through the huge selection of ships owned by his employer Sealift, with an amazing gusto! "They have such a varied fleet, I get to learn new things with every assignment," Marzougui reported. "I particularly enjoyed working aboard their bulk carriers because of all the exotic places we visited such as Egypt, Greece, Turkey, South Africa, Madagascar, and Sri Lanka. I've also worked on a container ship stationed in Dubai which wa...[more]

Copper River Cool! Danielle MacPhee, Norton High School class of 2004 and MMA '08, is sitting pretty on the banks of the Copper River in Alaska. Well...she doesn't actually do much sitting, but she does do a lot of fishing. As Fisheries Research Technician for the Native Village of Eyak, she catches and tags Chinook and Sockeye salmon in an effort to estimate the total population of each. Stats go to the State Fisheries so they can estimate allowable catch numbers. Danielle stumbled on the job while searching online. Nex...[more]

Family Day 2009 Dear Family and Friends of the Academy, It is my pleasure to invite you to visit our campus and be part of Family Day 2009. On Saturday 3 October we will host Family Day, a day designed to provide an opportunity to watch college football and women's volleyball, tour the campus, learn about our upcoming sea term and to meet some of our staff. Captain Tom Bushy will discuss highlights of our winter sea term. After the athletic events we will conduct a sunset ceremony in front of the U.S.S. Constituti...[more]

2nd Company Wins Admirals Cup! Keeping eyes on the prize, senior cadet leadership provides direction, leadership, and motivation for cadet candidates - all in pursuit of the coveted Admirals Cup, which is awarded at the end of orientation. Broken down into 7 categories, Admirals Cup consists of; knowledge (25%), esprit de corps (20%), intramurals (20%), physical training (5%), team building (15%), marching (10%), and monomy racing (5%). During the two weeks of Orientation, the Commandants Staff, who provides overall leadership and g...[more]

Follow the Leaders Regimental staff are first and foremost cadet leaders. They are also responsible for some pretty serious peer administration duty. The Regimental Commander is the senior cadet at the Academy and commands the Regiment "in the highest possible state of efficiency", a tall order indeed. The Regimental Executive Officer, second in command, is responsible for the training, discipline and military smartness of the Regiment. And so it goes - with approximately seventy-five campus leadership positions, covering d...[more]