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FBaggins

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1. Two weeks into Plebe Summer

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Jul 18, 2022, 10:38 AM

Jul 2022

Last edited Mon Jul 18, 2022, 02:11 PM - Edit history (1)

Can be rough (though Bancroft Hall now has air conditioning). It's still hundreds of recent highschool graduates getting their first introduction to military life.

Of course - Sunday morning wouldn't be a five-mile run in the heat/humidity.

On edit - It was a 2nd class midshipman. Not only not related to plebe summer... but not even really at the academy. He was on a semester exchange program at Chile's naval academy. Slipped and fell over a waterfall.

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Naval midshipman dies -- 2nd Naval Academy student death in two months [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2022 OP

Two weeks into Plebe Summer FBaggins Jul 2022 #1

Repugs are saying it was the vaccine. jimfields33 Jul 2022 #2

Our editors have updated the story. Thanks for reaching out. mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2022 #3