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New York Military Academy (NYMA)

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Mothers Day Parade '03	Columbus Day Parade NYC 2003	Randysbars.jpg	PFC.jpg
2004 DARE Graduation	New Cadet Parade 2004	Columbus Day Parade NYC 2004	Parents Auxiliary Parade
Mothers Day Parade 2005	NYMA Football	New Cadet Parade 2005	Columbus Day Parade NYC 2005
Homecoming Parade 05	Veterans Day	NYMA Wrestling	NYMA Basketball
Parents Auxiliary Parade 2006	Mothers Day Parade 2006	NYMA Lacrosse	Alumni Parade 2006
Senior Parade	Memorial Day	NYMA Graduation 2006

NYMA '76		24-May-2010 02:17
NYMA needs your help ASAP. Please consider: donate@nymafoundation.org. Read on FB NYMA foundation - NYMA 2.0 for the story. RJR '76

Guest		22-Dec-2009 09:46
By the way, are there any pictures from1982-1984?? GB

GB		22-Dec-2009 09:35
Hi NYMA, Great to see a good NYMApage, I am a graduate of the class of 1984. If anybody knows wherabouts from Robert Gardner (Class of 1983?) please let me know!! Also, the adult who ran B Company, I think his name was Capt. Vega would be of help.... Thanks guys (& girls- of course!!) Günther Bichlbauer gbichlbauer@chello.at

GOD HONEST TRUTH		18-Dec-2008 17:06
COLONEL DOBIAS WAS THE ONLY DECENT GUY IN THAT INSTITUTION. HE WAS A GREAT MAN AND AN INSPIRATION TO ME. THOSE COMMENTS DON'T APPLY TO HIM AT ALL.

Tom palka		17-Aug-2008 22:56
Jimmy vacca you crazy sob I posted the lacrrose comment we were in dickerson hall together good to hear from you I'm glad to see people remember how crazy it was back then, I roomed with kevin Webb and toth was a prick. Tommy P.

James Vacca		17-Jun-2008 16:29
Former Cadet from '83 to 88', loved the experience and the Cadets, but then again Andy Borne and myself were the goalies on the very Lacrosse tema that was mentioned in the aforementioned story, so maybe it wasn't as great as I thought I remembered. Thought that "The Maj." (Thedore Dobias) and Col. Harder USMC ret. were the best instructors the academy will ever have, and the rest were less than desireable.(Toth) Sad to see the condition of the school on my last visit in the mid '90's, hope it's improved since. mstsgt Vacca, Bravo Co.

Guest		17-May-2008 21:39
NYMA needs more Marines in charge, not a bunch of fat ex-Army sloths who have never seen an inch of combat in their lives.

Guest		25-Jul-2007 20:08
These pics bring back memories, i spent a couple years at nyma in the mid 80s it was a freaking insane asylum but we had a good time i.e the whole laccross team high on mesquline crap like that i spent 12 years in the army and two tours in the middle east, i ran into some nyma cadets and some shit heal tac sgt that was with them at ft indian town gap a couple of summers ago we were providing medical support for the cadets good kids all of them but i cant seem to remember that assholes name that was with them i hpoe nyma fired him. thanks for the memories. PA Doc

Melissa Perez		03-May-2007 19:24
Nyma is a great school and you will have ur ups and downs and there will be times where u think everyone here is an asshole but they have thier reasons

George Thompson		24-Mar-2007 16:12
Dutch, thank you so much for your commentary. I'm glad that NYMA was such a profound influence on your life. I can only hope that in the four years Randy spent there that the same holds true for him. I will always feel a part of NYMA as a parent of a cadet. Thanks George

dutch		24-Mar-2007 04:37
George, Thanks for posting these photos - they bring back great memories. We debated in logic class as seniors the question "did NYMA prepare us for life?". Who knew what life would hold when we were 17? We sure didn't. But we all agreed that while NYMA may or may not have prepared us for college - it did prepare us for life. We learned how to survive having immature a**holes as our superiors, not knowing that for decades following the academy we would be subjected to an endless parade of such idiots. NYMA showed us that even if the boss is a jerk, if your stuff isn't ready for inspection - it's your butt on the line. That was a valuable lesson. If you pissed someone off, they frequently waited until you least expected it to get back at you. And they always did. So we learned not to piss people off. Great lessons. The patience with people that I learned at NYMA has carried me far. Nards and Secretaries run the world. All the brass didn't get anything done. It was the secretaries - People like Mrs. Cox in the Commandant's office who could make sure your permission slip (if you got it in late) made it in time to get on the bus for a corps weekend. And the knowing the nards made the supply sergeant a master at getting the heat working when the Tac had no idea who to call. Because of NYMA, in the military and in business, I've always known to rely on the ones who get the job done, not the ones with the fancy titles, when it was my butt on the line. If you're squared away for inspection, you can do what you want the rest of the week. A great lesson. Once you know what the inspector is looking for, you give it to them, and you don't get messed with. It even works at work. Once you have that reputation, you can slip from time to time and no one notices or cares. Ignore this rule at your peril. We all knew the guys who screwed up at inspections early in the year - they were the ones that got ridden all year long. Thanks for bringing up all these memories.

alex julien (the canadian)		10-Feb-2007 00:43
Well it looks like im not the only one to have found this gallery. Thank you for these pictures. brings back some old memories of delinquency.

gt		11-Jan-2007 18:10
You can find the Christmas ball photos at georgethompson.smugmug.com

Shizzle		10-Jan-2007 00:52
Hey man is it possible if you can put most of the picture that you took on the christmass ball 06

Arturo Leon		02-Aug-2006 01:26
Where is the golf team? Art Leon class of '58

Guest		20-May-2006 02:12
bring back randy on the wall.

John E. Bolog		30-Apr-2006 13:06
Greetings, I grauated NYMA (by the skin o' me teeth) in 1963. It remains both a good and not so good experience, but in all, the school did help me determine certain standards for the upcoming game of life. It taught me the ludicrousness of military life and assisted me in my decision to not fight in Vietnam. Apparenly many other NYMA graduates of that era agreed as the cadet death toll for that sad war was, if memory serves, zero. In retrospect, Choate, Andover (despite the Bush infestation) or Exeter might have seved me better, but that is not the fault of the Academy, rather it was the laziness of this man, as child, attempting to "play soldier" when other, more pressing alternatives were becoming available. Is NYMA perfect? Certainly not. Can NYMA help prepare one for the future. Certainly yes. I therefore submit. Do not travel to Iraq. John e. Bolog NYMA '63

06 Wrestling Team		07-Feb-2006 20:11
Nice pictures most of us greatly appreciate them wheres the wrestling pictures that took

CHAO		11-Dec-2005 16:56
wats poppin, put some pictures up of the nyma basketball team this year

Bren		19-Oct-2005 17:58
I was a cadet in Bravo Company '95-'96 and the only thing I learned was how to be a better criminal.

Money		05-Jun-2005 02:03
no matter how much people claim NYMA sucks it still helped everyone....someway...somehow... EZ... Class Of ' 07

ahmed		23-May-2005 02:28
The only thing NYMA did for me was to show how many assholes are out there. I went back to public school and saw the real world.

garrick mundy		02-May-2005 00:24
as a cadet at the new york military academy i have realized so much. For instance, how my life should really be. I thought that while i was at home before i cam to the new york military academy, that i had it all. Now as a person, i realize without nyma i would have not be the man i am now. thanks nyma

Pat Leung		26-Jan-2005 00:03
Brings back memories, nice pics -Former cadet, class of 04'

Guest		28-Jun-2004 02:29
Good to see some positive NYMA publicity for a change. -Former Cadet Douglas Moquet http://www.lehigh.edu/~drm204/intro.htm

Sean O'Brien		17-Jun-2004 03:05
As a NYMA student for three years and being in Golf Company last year SY 02-03 as a Platoon Sergeant/Platoon Leader, and then 03-04 as the Golf Company Commander, I do appericiate the fine quality of the photos, of myself and my company. Thanks for the good work. Best Regards, Sean O'Brien NYMA Class of 2004

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