USNA 24th Company
34 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.
Ralph Baurichter
Class of 1951
Richard Geriak
Class of 1952
Paul Klinedinst, Jr.
Class of 1958
John O'Grady
Class of 1952
Charles Parish
Class of 1964
Christopher Tragna
Class of 1991
Dwight Owings
Class of 1956
Henry Nix
Class of 1951
Jerry Hogan
Class of 1964
Keith Rasmussen
Class of 1958
Ronald Vauk
Class of 1987
George Richards
Class of 1947
J. Wesley Van Dorn
Class of 2007
James McLendon
Class of 1966
James Wiley
Class of 1954
John Lyons, Jr.
Class of 1947
Jonathan Coe
Class of 1955
Norman Sassi
Class of 1954
Stephen Toth
Class of 1963
Arthur Bennett, III
Class of 1971
Bernard Joyce
Class of 1953
Donald Loring
Class of 1954
Herbert Knipple
Class of 1952
James Koch
Class of 1962
Jerold Weaver
Class of 1953
John Harper, Jr.
Class of 1949
Paul Cappellino
Class of 1977
Ralph Brown, Jr.
Class of 1948
Richard Hormel
Class of 1971
David Shore
Class of 1963
Dean Matzko
Class of 1966