Service Academies Hold Graduation
Service Academies Hold Graduation
It's the Day of the year at West Point, Annapolis, the Air Force and the Coast Guard Academies. It's Graduation Day and the end of the hard four-year grind. At New London, Connecticut, President Lyndon Johnson addresses graduates of the Coast Guard Academy and says that our war potential is far superior to that of Russia. West Point, NY Over head shot with the American Flag off to the right the graduates on one side and their family and friends on the other. MCUS - First cadet receives his diploma CUS - Daniel Levin receives his diploma out of uniform due to contracting poison ivy, MS - All the graduates throwing their caps in the air. Annapolis, Maryland The Naval Academy holds their graduating day. CUS - One of the graduates top man Walter Kessler maintained an all time academy record. MS - The graduates throwing their caps in the air. Colorado Springs, Colorado Air Force Academy graduation is held in the fog and rain. CUS - Cadets marching in the mud, camera pans down highlighting the mud on their white dress pants. MS - Cadets walking up to the stage to receive their diplomas. MS - The Air Force Academy throwing up their hats. New London, Connecticut Coast Guard Academy graduates receiving their diplomas. CUS - All the graduates sitting in their white uniforms listening to President Johnson's address. President Lyndon B. Johnson, "The Soviet Union, we estimate, could with difficulty send less than one third of this number over targets in the United States. Against such force the combined destructive power of every battle ever fought by man is like a fire cracker thrown against the sun."