USNA 23rd Company
31 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.
Charles Troppman
Class of 1952
Robert Gonano, Jr.
Class of 1953
Thomas Lampsa, Jr.
Class of 1956
William Stephenson, III
Class of 1951
David Hess
Class of 1954
Roland Obenland
Class of 1959
Kevin Bianchi
Class of 1985
Gerald Jenkins
Class of 1969
Howard Moore
Class of 1948
Landon Jones
Class of 2001
Orland Pender, Jr.
Class of 1966
Robert Renner
Class of 1960
Charles Morrow
Class of 1975
Edward O'Neill
Class of 1989
Frankie Naylor
Class of 1953
George Jeffries, Jr.
Class of 1948
James Willis, Jr.
Class of 1954
John Burke
Class of 1963
John Lawler
Class of 1959
Robert Forwalder
Class of 1989
Thomas Brunk
Class of 1966
Charles Ballou
Class of 1952
Daryl Summers
Class of 1964
Ernest Greppin, III
Class of 1989
Galen Gilbert
Class of 1964
John Williams
Class of 1960
Ralph Rodgers
Class of 1948
Richard Clinite
Class of 1949