Happy to see Navy prevail. Our command has an almost equal amount of Army and Navy personnel, so it’s been a fun week on base. Army was doing a lot of talking this year.

Sorry to see my alma mater lose...Anyone know why the Navy quarterback had an 82nd Airborne patch with jump wings on his left shoulder? I was at a watch party with both Navy and Army people there (a 20-20 even split) and no Navy guy knew the significance of the patch.

I hated to see Army lose but they did not show up and ruin a great year but they did not come to play.

It was the same with Ohio State Univ. against Michigan.

At least the Womens Rugby team beat the Naval Academy 41-0.


I did read this and thought it was pretty cool:

The approximately 300-mile journey of the Army-Navy Ball Run began on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024, in front of Quarters 100 — the residence of the U.S. Military Academy superintendent.

Eighteen members of the Army West Point Marathon Team stepped off to cheers from the West Point community and Corps of Cadets to deliver the Army-Navy gameday ball to Northwest Stadium, home of the NFL’s Washington Commanders, in Landover, Maryland, on Saturday, Dec. 14, for the 125th iteration of the Army-Navy Game.

Each member of the squad will run just short of 20 miles with the ball.

Absolutely a fabulous day!!

"Anyone know why the Navy quarterback had an 82nd Airborne patch with jump wings on his left shoulder?"

I saw that and found a web site listing various patches Navy players wore. It didn't explain why they selected their patches but I suspect that it may have been a family/friend connection (see #46 below).

As you'd guess, most were Navy/Marine patches, but there were several from other entities:
# 12 - 82d Airborne
# 17 - US Secret Service
# 24 - 2d Combat Engineer Battalion
# 36 - Company, 2d Btn, 5th SFG
# 46 - LTJG Zack Kennedy Memorial
# 64 - MACV-SOG
# 84 - s1t Special Forces Command

https://navysports.com/news/20...-army-navy-game.aspx

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Originally posted by rch73:
Sorry to see my alma mater lose...Anyone know why the Navy quarterback had an 82nd Airborne patch with jump wings on his left shoulder? I was at a watch party with both Navy and Army people there (a 20-20 even split) and no Navy guy knew the significance of the patch.

He said he was honoring his grandfather.

I had not heard the West Point Alma Mater sung before. It's from a lovely German folk song about love.
Meanwhile, the Yale anthem is also from a German song, Die Wacht am Rhein. You heard the Germans sing the original in Casablanca, which gave rise to the French singing La Marseillaise.
How did Yale end up with a German military song, and West Point with a German love song?
Yale got the feistier one first?

OK, thank you for the clarification. I was really wondering about it.
cheers, Bob