United States Service Academies

The United States service academies, also known as the United States military academies, are federal academies for the undergraduate education and training of commissioned officers for the United States armed forces.

There are five U.S. Service academies:

  • The United States Military Academy (USMA) in West Point, New York, founded in 1802
  • The United States Naval Academy (USNA) in Annapolis, Maryland, founded in 1845
  • The United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) in New London, Connecticut, founded in 1876
  • The United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) in Kings Point, New York, founded in 1943
  • The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) in Colorado Springs, Colorado, founded in 1954.

Read more about United States Service Academies:  Nature, Uniformed Services University of The Health Sciences and Other DOD Graduate Institutions, Preparatory Schools

Famous quotes containing the words united states, united, states, service and/or academies:

    “What chiefly distinguishes the daily press of the United States from the press of all other countries is not its lack of truthfulness or even its lack of dignity and honor, for these deficiencies are common to the newspapers everywhere, but its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion. It is, in the true sense, never well-informed.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “What lies behind facts like these: that so recently one could not have said Scott was not perfect without earning at least sorrowful disapproval; that a year after the Gang of Four were perfect, they were villains; that in the fifties in the United States a nothing-man called McCarthy was able to intimidate and terrorise sane and sensible people, but that in the sixties young people summoned before similar committees simply laughed.”
    —Doris Lessing (b. 1919)

    “I make this direct statement to the American people that there is far less chance of the United States getting into war, if we do all we can now to support the nations defending themselves against attack by the Axis than if we acquiesce in their defeat, submit tamely to an Axis victory, and wait our turn to be the object of attack in another war later on.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    “The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”
    —Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

    “Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)