Mission of United States Merchant Marine Academy
THE MISSION OF THE UNITED STATES MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY
"To educate and graduate professional officers and leaders of honor and integrity, who are dedicated to serving the economic and defense interests of the United States in our Armed Forces and Merchant Marine, and who will contribute to an intermodal transportation system that effectively ties America together."
The Academy is a national institution, operated by the Federal Government's Maritime Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The Academy's four-year program centers on a regimental system that instills its students - called midshipmen (a term used for both men and women) - with the traits of leadership, discipline and dedication required for a career that typically may include service at sea, maritime employment ashore, and serving as a commissioned officer in a reserve component of the U.S. Armed Forces.
The United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) at Kings Point, New York, has a long and proud history of graduating outstanding young men and women who have given devoted service to the United States, in peace time and during war. The mission of the USMMA is " To educate and graduate professional officers and leaders of honor and integrity, who are dedicated to serving the economic and defense interests of the United States in our Armed Forces and Merchant Marine, and who will contribute to an intermodal transportation system that effectively ties America together."
Undergraduates of this institution, one of five federal service academies, have even given their lives in the pursuit of the cause of freedom. Our graduates have gone on to serve with pride not only in this country’s merchant marine, but in many other areas of service in both the public and private sectors. Their successes, across a broad spectrum of careers and in a wide range of corporate and governmental endeavors, provides copious testimony of the value and benefits to this country (and the world) of the investment made in the individuals who are proud to call themselves Kings Pointers. The Academy's four-year program centers on a regimental system that instills its students - called midshipmen (a term used for both men and women) - with the traits of leadership, discipline and dedication required for a career that typically may include service at sea, maritime employment ashore, and serving as a commissioned officer in a reserve component of the U.S. Armed Forces.