For Plebes, Discipline From Day One; Shorn and Unsure, Freshman Midshipmen Begin Life at Naval Academy

From: The Washington Post | Date: July 22, 2001| Author: Nelson Hernandez | Copyright information

A ragged column of teenagers and their anxious parents wait as the gray dawn sky over the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis begins to brighten.

It's 6 a.m., and these young men and women are about to undergo the most important transition of their lives. When they pass through the doors of Alumni Hall, they will be stripped of their civilian clothes, their hair, their old identity. They will emerge as plebes, freshman midshipmen, the lowest-ranking creatures at this fiercely hierarchical ...

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