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Friends, colleagues and midshipmen of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) at Kings Point held a memorial service yesterday, remembering and honoring CAPT Elwood Charles Baumgart, USMS, Professor in the Department of Engineering, who died on July 31. He was remembered not only as a...
KINGS POINT, N.Y., August 14, 2015 – Three U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) Cadets are sailing on the Navy's first Afloat Forward Staging Base (AFSB) variant of the Mobile Landing Platform (MLP).
As part of their Sea Year, Deck Cadet Leighton-Joshua Flores, Engine Cadet Patricia Ormond...
KINGS POINT, N.Y., August 14, 2015 – On Wednesday, during a lunchtime ceremony Academic Dean, Dr. Shashi N. Kumar, Deputy Superintendent, Rear Adm. Sue Dunlap, USMS, and Director of the Academic Center for Excellence, Lt. Cmdr Paul D. Acquaro, USMS, were joined by United States Merchant...
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx’s USMMA Academic Convocation speech, KINGS POINT, N.Y., July 24, 2015
There will be a memorial service for Captain Elwood Baumgart on Monday, August 17 at 1100 in the Mariner’s Memorial Chapel. For midshipmen and USMS personnel, the uniform will be khakis; all others in appropriate civilian attire. All Kings Point community members are invited to attend.
KINGS POINT, N.Y., August 11, 2015 – On Saturday, The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) at Kings Point welcomed 243 “plebe candidates” of the Class of 2019 into the Regiment of Midshipmen as they took USMMA’s Corps of Cadets Oath administrated by Rear Admiral James A. Helis, Ph.D.,...