USNA 25th Company
19 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.
Craig Crowley
Class of 1950
Robert Wilson, Jr.
Class of 1978
Ronald Winchester
Class of 2001
Robert Tuttle
Class of 1967
Daniel Bartle
Class of 2006
Joseph King, Jr.
Class of 1983
Robert Hughes
Class of 1967
Brian Hawley
Class of 1984
Gary Simkins
Class of 1965
Jay Williamson
Class of 1986
Richard Mergl
Class of 1949
Robert Graff
Class of 1967
Thomas Adams
Class of 1997
Thomas Doyle
Class of 1981
Edgar Cruise, Jr.
Class of 1949
Hubert Evans
Class of 1950
Joseph Gollner
Class of 1949