<p>Press Release Text for Graduation Announce for Local Newspaper(s)</p><p>Copy and Past the document below into your word processor and substitute your information, selecting Ensign or Second Lieutenant and he or she where appropriate. Send it along with a 5 x 7 photo of your Firstie to the local newspaper(s) on a single typewritten sheet of 8 ½ x 11 paper. Include a SASE if you wish them to return the photo. Be sure to stick a preprinted return address label with your name & address on the back of the photo (DO NOT write on the back of the photo directly since this can mar the pictures.) and paperclip it to the announcement.</p><p>FOR IMMEDIATE Contact: {your name} RELEASE {your phone number U.S. Naval Academy, with AC} Annapolis MD. ______</p><p>U.S. Navy Ensign/U.S. Marine Corps Second Lieutenant {First Name Middle Initial Last Name}, son/daughter of {parents’ name}, graduated from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD on {graduation date} and was commissioned as an Officer in the U.S. Navy/U.S. Marine Corps. Ens. /2nd Lt. {Last Name} successfully completed four years of intensive academic, physical, and professional training, resulting in a Bachelor of Science Degree with a major in {academic major}. As a graduate of the Naval Academy, Ens./2nd Lt. {Last Name} completed a four-year, total immersion program where a strong, balanced academic program, focused on the educational needs of the Navy and Marine Corps I superimposed on a strict, professional military training environment emphasizing the development of leadership skills. Following graduation, Ens. /2nd Lt. {Last Name} has been assigned to {ship/school} where ne/she will {continue studies/training in ______} and then proceed to {home port/duty station} where he/she will begin service aboard/with {ship/command}.</p><p>Considered one of the top educational institutions in the country, the U.S. naval Academy was founded in 1845 and has graduated more then 60,000 men and women as Naval and Marine Corps Officers. Its graduates include 4,000 Admirals and Generals, one President, 200 members of Congress, three Governors, 73 Medal of Honor winners, one Nobel Prize winner, and 40 Astronauts.</p><p>The Naval Academy currently has more than 4,000 students who comprise the Brigade of Midshipmen and who come from every state in the union.</p><p>Ens. /2nd Lt. {Last Name} is a {HS Grad Year} graduate of {High School/Academy}, {City}, {State}.</p>