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There’s nothing that brings people together like breaking bread and sharing a meal. When you’re bringing more than 4,400 midshipmen together, that’s a lot of bread and a lot of meals. In the Naval Academy dining hall, King Hall, this feat is performed three times a day. It’s run like a ship because they’re preparing the future Navy for the rhythm of mealtimes aboard a ship. Also, how else can you feed that volume of people so efficiently?

The Navy Midshipmen faced off against the Army Black Knights right outside of Boston, Massachusetts, on December 9, 2023, in front of a crowd of 65,878 roaring fans and far more watching on televised broadcasts. It was “America’s Game,” aptly played just one week before the 250th celebration of the Boston Tea Party. It was the first time in their history the two teams met at the Patriots’ Gillette Stadium, and it was a game that lived up to the anticipation.