USNA 33rd Company
17 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.
Jeffrey Ohl
Class of 1982
Matthew Bancroft
Class of 1994
Edgar Rawsthorne
Class of 1949
Gregg Owens
Class of 1967
Frank Wittwer
Class of 1994
Dennis O'Malley
Class of 1972
Michael Martin
Class of 1971
Orville Kollasch
Class of 1968
Paul Ambrogi
Class of 1988
Christopher Braybrooke
Class of 1950
David Greene
Class of 1986
Channing Gardner
Class of 1949
John Harrington
Class of 1967
Patrick Kilcline
Class of 1975
Richard Been
Class of 1972