Navy

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Coast Guard Ensign Kaleb Fall stationed in Alameda, Ca., left, tosses a football in the stadium parking lot while he and his brother 4th Class Midshipmen Carson Fall, right, wait for the U.S. Navy Academy's class of 2012 graduation ceremony to begin at the Navy-Marine Corps Stadium, Annapolis, Md., Tuesday, May 29, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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4th Class Midshipmen with the U.S. Navy Academy's class of 2012 wait for their graduation ceremony to begin at the Navy-Marine Corps Stadium, Annapolis, Md., Tuesday, May 29, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Midshipmen Plebes Langston Williams, left, and Nickos Leondaridis-Mena, right, stand on the upper level of the stadium before graduation is held for the U.S. Navy Academy's class of 2012 at the Navy-Marine Corps Stadium, Annapolis, Md., Tuesday, May 29, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Midshipmen 3rd Class Stephen Perez, bottom right, 4th Class Viktor Greve, top right, and 4th Class Georgiy Zotkin, left, talk at one of the entrances to the stadium before graduation is held for the U.S. Navy Academy's class of 2012 at the Navy-Marine Corps Stadium, Annapolis, Md., Tuesday, May 29, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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The U.S. Naval Academy's class of 2012 tosses their hats in the air as they graduate at the Navy-Marine Corps Stadium, Annapolis, Md., Tuesday, May 29, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Midshipman Kevin Joseph Hillery, who was paralyzed from the waist down by a falling tree during his junior year, shakes hands with Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta (third from right) as he takes the stage to receive his diploma during graduation ceremonies for the U.S. Naval Academy's class of 2012 at the Navy-Marine Corps Stadium in Annapolis on Tuesday, May 29, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta speaks during the graduation ceremony for the U.S. Naval Academy's class of 2012 at the Navy-Marine Corps Stadium in Annapolis on Tuesday, May 29, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus (left) and Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta (second from left) stand on the main stage at the beginning of graduation ceremonies for the U.S. Naval Academy's class of 2012 at the Navy-Marine Corps Stadium in Annapolis on Tuesday, May 29, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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The U.S. Navy's Blue Angels fly over the graduation ceremony for the U.S. Naval Academy's class of 2012 at the Navy-Marine Corps Stadium in Annapolis on Tuesday, May 29, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Graduation is held for the U.S. Navy Academy's class of 2012 at the Navy-Marine Corps Stadium, Annapolis, Md., Tuesday, May 29, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington)

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From left; Former Missouri Rep. Ike Skelton, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., her husband Mark Kelly, and Roxanna Green, obscured, the mother of the nine-year-old Christina-Taylor Green who was killed while attending the meeting of constituents when Giffords was shot, attend a ceremony at the Pentagon, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, to unveil the USS Gabrielle Giffords. The Navy has named a ship for Gabrielle Giffords, the recently retired congresswoman from Arizona who is recovering from a gunshot wound to the head received in January 2011. (AP Photo Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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The USS Enterprise is among a fleet of 11 carriers that the Navy maintains by law, but Pentagon budget cuts have the service talking behind the scenes of protecting only 10 for future missions, sources say. (Associated Press)

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Navy midshipmen and Army cadets had different reactions to a touchdown Navy scored Saturday during the first quarter. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** A man who is active-duty in the Navy, and only gave his name as Matt, wears a shirt being signed by others that reads "I survived D.A.D.T." (don't ask, don't tell) shortly before midnight during a celebration for the end of the policy on Sept. 19, 2011, in a bar in San Diego. (Associated Press)

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Virginia Beach residents Tom Hall (left) and Mark Janik (center) watch the news about the Navy SEAL Team 6 helicopter crash on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011, in Virginia Beach, the headquarters of the elite Navy group, whose members captured Osama bin Laden. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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Incoming U.S. Naval Academy students, or plebes, read their Reef Points booklets while waiting with their Navy-issued gear to head to their dormitory on Induction Day at the academy in Annapolis on Thursday, June 30, 2011. The Reef Points serve as an introduction to the Navy, and the plebes are expected to memorize all of the facts in the book. They are instructed to hold the books squarely in front of their face as they read them. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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Navy Secretary Ray Mabus (left) and Yale President Richard Levin arrive Thursday to sign an agreement to establish the Naval ROTC's formal presence at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. The ROTC unit at Yale will be the Navy's only ROTC unit in Connecticut. (Associated Press)