USNA 21st Company
32 AlumniThe company is the most important unit in the Brigade of Midshipmen. Companies eat, sleep, study, drill, and compete together. Comprised of roughly 30-35 midshipmen from each of all four classes, they are led by 1/c Midshipmen. There are currently 36 companies in the Brigade, though there were only eight in the late 1920s before expanding to 36 from the late 1940s to the late 1990s, and then back to 30 until the 2025-2026 academic year.
Some classes are in the same company for all four years, but this too has varied. Some classes are "shotgunned" (all midshipmen in a class, usually following plebe year, are moved randomly to a different company), while others are "shuffled" (again usually following plebe year, an entire group would move from one company to another). Even though many alumni were a part of more than one company during their four years at the Naval Academy, the list below is reflective of the company from which they graduated.
Alvin Storey, II
Class of 1955
William Arbogast
Class of 1962
Brian Smith
Class of 1991
Daniel Adams
Class of 1984
Edgar Hollister
Class of 1948
John Ellison
Class of 1952
Stephen Erickson
Class of 1965
Thomas Pasquale
Class of 1969
Willard Marshall
Class of 1961
Clarence Stoddard, Jr.
Class of 1949
Robert Bradley
Class of 1964
William Wilson
Class of 1960
Robert Graustein
Class of 1961
Charles Lamberth
Class of 1963
Craig McFarlane
Class of 1971
Dean Price
Class of 1976
Douglas Mayfield
Class of 1956
James Surch, Jr.
Class of 1977
Richard Dempsey, Jr.
Class of 1982
William Davidson
Class of 1981
Glenn Morrison, Jr.
Class of 1959
Eugene Parker
Class of 1954
James Lazevnick
Class of 1984
Joseph Johnson
Class of 1967
Nello Da Rodda
Class of 1948
William Kurlak
Class of 1964
William Collier, Jr.
Class of 1957
William Flynn
Class of 1958
