USNA 33rd Company

From USNA Virtual Memorial Hall


The company is the most important unit in the Brigade of Midshipmen. Companies eat, sleep, study, drill, and compete together. Comprised of roughly 30-35 midshipmen from each of all four classes, they are led by 1/c Midshipmen. There are currently 30 companies in the Brigade, though this number has ranged from 8 in the late 1920s to 36 from the late 1940s to the late 1990s.

Some classes are in the same company for all four years; there is also "shotgunning" (all midshipmen in a class, usually following plebe year, are moved randomly to a different company) and "rifling" (again usually following plebe year, an entire group would move from one company to another). Even though many alumni were a part of more than one company during their four years at the Naval Academy, the list below is reflective of the company from which they graduated.





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Thomas Jenike
Class of 1950

Lieutenant (j.g.), US Navy

Hillsboro, Ohio

August 1, 1952 (26 years old)

Operational loss, Attack Squadron (VA) 175, Map, Fixed Wing, USNA 33rd Company


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John Harrington
Class of 1967

Lieutenant (j.g.), US Navy

South Orange, New Jersey

September 28, 1968 (23 years old)

Operational loss, Training Squadron (VT) 22, Fixed Wing, USNA 33rd Company


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Gregg Owens
Class of 1967

Commander, US Navy

Cressona, Pennsylvania

November 8, 1983 (38 years old)

Operational loss, Air Anti-Submarine Squadron (VS) 24, Fixed Wing, USNA 33rd Company


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Orville Kollasch
Class of 1968

Lieutenant, US Navy

Estherville, Iowa

June 7, 1972 (26 years old)

Operational loss, Attack Squadron (VA) 122, Fixed Wing, USNA 33rd Company



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Richard Been
Class of 1972

Lieutenant (j.g.), US Navy

Hondo, Texas

August 25, 1975 (26 years old)

Operational loss, Fighter Squadron (VF) 101, Fixed Wing, USNA 33rd Company



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Patrick Kilcline
Class of 1975

Lieutenant (j.g.), US Navy

McLean, Virginia

July 16, 1978 (25 years old)

Operational loss, Fighter Squadron (VF) 211, Fixed Wing, HOFH21, HOFH22, USNA 33rd Company


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Jeffrey Ohl
Class of 1982

2nd Lieutenant, US Marine Corps

Huntington, West Virginia

September 23, 1983 (23 years old)

Operational loss, Training Squadron (VT) 3, US Marine Corps, Fixed Wing, USNA 33rd Company



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Paul Ambrogi
Class of 1988

Lieutenant, US Navy

Richmond, Virginia

July 23, 1993 (26 years old)

Operational loss, Attack Squadron (VA) 75, Fixed Wing, USNA 33rd Company


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Frank Wittwer
Class of 1994

Lieutenant Commander, US Navy

Deridder, Louisiana

January 18, 2006 (35 years old)

Operational loss, Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 97, Fixed Wing, HOFH23, USNA 33rd Company



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Jonas Panik
Class of 1997

Lieutenant, US Navy

Mingoville, Pennsylvania

September 11, 2001 (26 years old)

KIA, 9/11, Terrorism, HOFH22, USNA 33rd Company