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Military recruits receive their graduation degrees in the United States.
Graduation ceremony of military recruits in the United States. A large number of midshipmen seated in a building in Annapolis, Maryland. They receive their graduation degrees. US Secretary of the Navy Fred Korth does the honors. A crowd applauds and cheers. US Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson awards degrees to air force personnel in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Johnson on a reviewing stand. The cadets at West Point in New York receive their degrees from President John F Kennedy. Kennedy addresses them. The cadets cheer and applaud. Location: United States. Date: June 7, 1962.
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The video highlights the graduation ceremonies of the three major U.S. military academies. It captures the transition of 1,675 graduates from the Naval, Air Force, and Military Academies into officers, emphasizing their commitment to defending democracy and the strategic role of the military as a complement to diplomacy.
Anchors Away means just that at Annapolis, as 780 middies receive
their diplomas after four years of grinding study.
10,000 jam the Naval Academy Fieldhouse
as the middies receive their Bachelor of Science degrees,
and all but 14 of the class become officers in the armed forces.
When the Secretary of the Navy, Fred Korth,
hands out the last diploma and the anchorman gets his hazing,
there's one last traditional rite.
The graduating class gives three cheers, cheers they all deserve.
All right.
In Colorado Springs,
2,100 air cadets parade in salute to Vice President Johnson on hand
to give 297 Air Force Academy graduates their diploma.
This is but the fourth class to graduate from the Air Force Academy,
and already they are
molding a tradition,
ready to follow in the footsteps of General Curtis LeMay, who presents
their commission.
May their bright new wings carry them to a brilliant career.
The 598 graduates at West Point are honored
by the Commander-in-Chief himself, who addresses
the cadets on their role as soldiers.
He tells them that the next decade would offer them
a broad opportunity to defend freedom.
And then he said,
Above all, you will have a responsibility
to deter war as well as to fight it.
For the basic problems facing the world today
are not susceptible of a final military solution.
While we will long require the services
and admire the dedication and commitment of the
fighting men of this country,
neither our strategy nor our psychology as a nation, and
certainly not our economy,
must become permanently dependent upon an ever-increasing military
establishment.
Our forces, therefore,
must fulfill a broader role as a complement to our diplomacy, as
an arm of our diplomacy, as a deterrent to our adversaries.
...and as a symbol to our allies of our determination to support them.
The President is made an honorary member of the class of 62
and receives a class ring.
Does this make the Commander-in-Chief a second Louis?
Then that coveted piece of parchment.
The President has special greetings for two graduates whom he appointed
to the Academy while he was a senator from Massachusetts.
In all, 1,675 officers and gentlemen graduate from the three academies.
Men who pledge their futures to the freedom of the democracy,
something we can all cheer about.
