Navy Nannies to Kill Plebe Tradition?

By John Noonan
Published January 18, 2008 7:36pm ET
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Navy Nannies to Kill Plebe Tradition?
I can’t say I really understand the USNA’s annual plebe scramble to the top of a towering, lard-slicked granite monument, as the idea of a squirming man-pile of greasy midshipmen seems to validate all of those inter-service stereotypes about the Navy. But, having crawled belly down through a field of mud and cow patties as […]
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