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'Plebes No More': Naval Academy Class of 2024 Puts Cover at the Top of Herndon Monument Naval Academy freshmen, or plebes, climb the Herndon Monument, a tradition symbolizing the successful completion of the midshipmen freshman year, May 20, 2019. (Josiah D. Pearce/U.S. Navy) 24 May 2021 The Capital, Annapolis, Md. | By Danielle Ohl The Naval Academy Class of 2024 almost set a new record in their effort to scale the Herndon Monument — just maybe not the one they had hoped for. The now 4th class midshipmen Saturday record...

The now 4th class midshipmen made history Saturday recording the second-slowest Herndon Climb in Naval Academy history at 3 hours, 41 minutes exactly.

Groans and chants rippled through the exhausted hoard, which was covered in grass, mud and sweat.