Rites of Passage - Military

Military

  • Blood wings
  • Line-crossing ceremony
  • Krypteia, a rite involving young Spartans, part of the agoge regime of Spartan education.
  • Wetting-down. In the U.S. Navy and Royal Navy, is a ceremony in which a Naval officer is ceremonially thrown into the ocean upon receiving a promotion.

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