How much vacation or leave do midshipmen get?
The Naval Academy’s combined academic, military and physical development programs demand a lot of effort, requiring you to spend more time on the Yard than the typical civilian college student. But midshipmen enjoy Christmas and summer vacations (leave) plus shorter periods of time off (liberty). Free time to be away from the academy is based in large part on assigned military responsibilities, performance in academic and military endeavors and class seniority. You earn more liberty and privileges each year you advance at the Academy. All midshipmen generally are granted leave during these periods: –Thanksgiving leave; –a Christmas vacation at the end of the fall semester; –mid-term leave during the spring semester; –a short break at the end of the spring semester and before Commissioning Week; and –a month-long summer vacation for all but new plebes, staggered according to the summer’s professional training schedule.
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