Mitchell Waters of Brooklet has successfully completed four years of challenging academic, physical, and professional military training, graduating from the United States Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in Operations Research and a commission as a US Marine Corps 2nd Lieutenant. He is a graduate of Southeast Bulloch High School. At the academy, Waters was a member of the Sprint Football Team.
Waters, 22, is the son of Michael and Shannon Waters of Brooklet, brother of Samantha Waters, and grandson of Raymond and June Waters of Brooklet and John and Linda Wyatt of Tiger, GA. He graduated from SEB in 2020. Waters will officially graduate from the Naval Academy on Friday, May 24, 2024 at the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis.
You can watch a livestream of the graduation ceremony, beginning at 10am on Friday, HERE.
Following his graduation, Waters will move on to his US Marine training at The Basic School in Quantico, Virginia. Following his training at The Basic School, he plans to attend flight school in Pensacola, Florida.
About the Naval Academy
Founded in 1845, the U.S. Naval Academy is a prestigious four-year service academy that prepares midshipmen morally, mentally, and physically to be professional officers in the naval service. More than 4,400 men and women representing every state in the U.S. and several foreign countries make up the student body, known as the Brigade of Midshipmen.
Each year, approximately 1,200 students are admitted to the Naval Academy’s incoming class. U.S. News and World Reports has recognized the Naval Academy as the #1 public school, #4 engineering program, and #6 liberal arts college. Midshipmen learn from military and civilian instructors and participate in intercollegiate varsity sports and extracurricular activities.
They also study subjects such as leadership, ethics, small arms, drill, seamanship, and navigation, tactics, naval engineering and weapons, and military law. Upon graduation, midshipmen earn a Bachelor of Science degree in a choice of 26 different subject majors and go on to serve at least five years of exciting and rewarding service as commissioned officers in the U.S. Navy or U.S. Marine Corps.
The academy’s alumni include one president, 29 members of Congress, five governors, 73 Medal of Honor recipients, two Nobel Prize winners, 55 astronauts, and 4,000 admirals and generals.