Put ‘em in, coach. They’re ready to sail.
Over 1,000 soon-to-be Navy officers found out their future jobs Thursday at the U.S. Naval Academy with a unique reveal: a baseball jersey customized for the Navy or Marine Corps ‘team’ each senior was headed toward after graduation.
Future pilots got a blue button-up with “Navy Pilot” in gold — the colors of the Blue Angels. Surface Warfare Officers got blue-on-blue unis that read “SWO” while future Silent Service sailors wore under-the-sea themed aqua marine “Submarines” jerseys.
And the quarter of Annapolis seniors headed to the Marine Corps? Scarlet and gold, of course.
The jerseys put a new twist on a long-running tradition of seniors at the three major service academies learning what job they are headed toward on the same day. The all-at-

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