The United States Naval Academy (USNA) was founded in 1845 by Secretary of the Navy, George Bancroft. USNA is a four-year coeducational federal service academy that prepares officers for commissioning chiefly into the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps. It is located in Fort Severn in Annapolis, Maryland and thus the academy is also known as “Annapolis” (Baker B.T., Hocevar S.P. & Johnson, W.B., 2003; USNA website).
The history of USNA parallels the history of our country, with the Naval Academy undergoing the same cultural changes as mainstream society (Adamshick, 2010). It is the mission of ...
