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♪ memories heres to the navy for protecting all our seas ♪ you serve a brave country, you serve with style, you serve with six-pack abs i can barely run a mile ♪ i only want to thank the troops ♪ >> a great moment at the -- at fleet week here at 30 rock and here comes the academy -- the academy graduates you heard from the president. class of 2018 celebrating grass graduation. secondless in the marine corps. or navy officers. the president gave the commencement speech. 11 students hailin...

♪ im dr. kelsey mcneely and some day you might be calling me an energy farmer. ♪ energy lives here. naval academy graduation ceremony ends with the sell bra ty hat toss. here it is. >> oh, yes! >> hip hip. >> hooray! >> hip hip. >> hooray!

I think everybody is struck if you have a chance to attend one of these ceremonies as youve been saying these young people who have willingly sought out this commission for their lives who are there to celebrate moving on to the next chapter as you guys have talked about for many of them it goes right into active duty service. it is a sobering thing but really inspiring and encouraging to see them there being sent off with words of challenge and inspiration. and it gives you a sense that there i...

Highly anticipated hat toss. we think theyre back on schedule. here they go, you can see them getting excited. check this out: >> >> hip hip. >> hooray! >> hip hip. >> hooray! >> reporter: you can see the hats are up! hundreds of people are running in that the side, a lot of kids, a lot of siblings to find a hat. doesnt matter if they know the person whose hat it is, theyre going to find a hat. everybody wants to go home today with a new hat. because all the graduates are done with theirs and it...

>> jenna: i am savoring these kind words about annapolis when your son is at west point. its a friendly rivalry. jon: do our viewers understand, jenna has someone special in her life who is a naval academy grad! jenna: cant mess that up, my fiance, absolutely, and i had all these questions about what we call the hat toss, in which he directed -- corrected me, they call covers, jon. covers. jon: its properly known as the hat toss! but each academy does the hat toss, and it actually started -- the...

College and decide what they want to do next, they do have to go into service. thats what they get for the education thats provided to them at the academy. jon: in the case of my own son, he went into the west point service academy, knowing that the next nine years, really, 12 years of his life, were going to be spent in the service of the united states. because youll be a cadel, youll be four years in college, then five years of man today sorry -- mandatory service after that, plus three years ...

Write a little note and tuck it into the inner band of the hat, they may even leave a little money in the hat for those kids to find. jenna: how much? >> jon: i dont know. jenna: that sounds pretty good. jon: theyre college students, basically, theyre not extremely wealthy, so it might be $5, $10. jenna: even the words would mean so much at this point. they did really accomplish quite a bit. no easy task, of course, to get through the academy, by any stretch of the imagination. peter doocy is th...

These guys, 1006 graduate the, got to shake hands with secretary of defense robert gates and he gave a great speech before. we are going to talk about that in a second. we think that the hat toss is literally just seconds away. we think maybe about 30 seconds away, according to my producer, shayla. but there is just a lot of anticipation, and all built up to this. jon, as you mentioned, its the visual and symbolic end to the four years at the academy. jon: i know that one of the reasons they tos...

Peter doocy said weve been out there four hours so far with this graduation ceremony. well of course continue coverage and bring you that hat toss, as soon as it happens. well be right back.