Brooklet Native Set to Graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy

One of Bulloch County’s own will soon graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy!

Mitchell Waters of Brooklet, Ga has successfully completed four years of challenging academic, physical, and professional military training. He will soon be graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in Operations Research and a commission as a U.S. Marine Corps 2nd Lieutenant.

After graduation on May 24, Waters will go on to The Basic School in Quantico, Va and then to flight training in Pensacola, Fl.

Waters is a graduate of Southeast Bulloch High School. At the academy, he was a member of the Sprint Football Team, which won College Spring Football League Championships in 2021, 2022, and 2023.

Founded in 1845, the U.S. Naval Academy today is a prestigious four-year service academy that prepares midshipmen morally, mentally, and physically to be professional officers in the naval service. More than 4,400 men and women representing every state in the U.S. and several foreign countries make up the student body, known as the Brigade of Midshipmen. Each year, approximately 1,200 students are admitted to the Naval Academy’s incoming class.

U.S. News and World Reports has recognized the Naval Academy as the #1 public school, #4 engineering program, and #6 liberal arts college.

Midshipmen learn from military and civilian instructors and participate in intercollegiate varsity sports and extracurricular activities. They also study subjects such as leadership, ethics, small arms, drill, seamanship and navigation, tactics, naval engineering and weapons, and military law.

Upon graduation, midshipmen earn a Bachelor of Science degree in a choice of 26 different subject majors and go on to serve at least five years of exciting and rewarding service as commissioned officers in the U.S. Navy or U.S. Marine Corps.

The academy’s alumni include, one president, 29 members of Congress, five governors, 73 Medal of Honor recipients, two Nobel Prize winners, 55 astronauts, and 4,000 admirals and generals.