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Plebes No More : Naval Academy Class of 2024 Puts Cover at the Top of Herndon Monument
Naval Academy freshmen, or plebes, climb the Herndon Monument, a tradition symbolizing the successful completion of the midshipmen freshman year, May 20, 2019. (Josiah D. Pearce/U.S. Navy)
24 May 2021 The Capital, Annapolis, Md. | By Danielle Ohl
The Naval Academy Class of 2024 almost set a new record in their effort to scale the Herndon Monument just maybe not the one they had hoped for.
The now 4th class midshipmen Saturday recorded the second-slowest Herndon Climb in Naval Academy history at 3 hours, 41 minutes exactly.
As the plebes fought their way to the top of the 21-foot obelisk, slick with water and shortening, the cannon signaling three and a half hours had passed boomed out over the Yard. Groans and chants of we suck rippled through the exhausted hoard, covered in grass, mud and sweat. But in the final h