| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - Courts - 1955 - 1400 pages
...States Air Force Academy to train career Air Force officers. The Air Academy will be a counterpart of the Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy at Annapolis. American Foreign Aid Chief Stassen says United States technical aid is one of the most important sections... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - 1955 - 1816 pages
...beyond the one of training men to fly planes in defense of the country. It is quite obvious that, like the Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy at Annapolis, the Air Force Academy will take on the qualities of a national shrine. On this ground it would be well... | |
| Jean Darby - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1989 - 124 pages
...newspaper, Dwight read that on October 4 and 5, competitive examinations would be given to applicants for the Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Quickly he wrote another letter to the senator. "Now, if you find it impossible to give me an appointment... | |
| John Hope Franklin - History - 2002 - 340 pages
...56 The ordnance office had a policy of ordering sufficient training muskets to supply the needs of the Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy at Annapolis. In the final decade before the Civil War, it had to handle requests for such arms from Southern military... | |
| United States. War Department - 1916 - 1282 pages
...West Point has for years consisted of designation by the President, Senators, and Kepresentatives, with examination as a prerequisite to acceptance;...those fittest by temperament and talent to pursue in tlfe Military Academy and the Naval Academy the study of military science; and incidentally these schools... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs - 1937 - 34 pages
...the District of Columbia, with a population of approximately 600,000, is allotted four appointments to the Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy at Annapolis; and Whereas there are eight States each of a less population than the District of Columbia, and each... | |
| Nutrition - 1912 - 768 pages
...question, but one that concerns the entire nation. Fifty per cent, of the candidates for admission to the Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy at Annapolis are rejected for being physically inefficient. It is estimated that 78,000 of our children go to school... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs - 1942 - 60 pages
...men do work that always improves the original invention. Not always at once but after use and trial. The Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy at Annapolis base their training on two elements, the killing of an enemy ashore or afloat and the destruction or... | |
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