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Untalan graduates from US Naval Academy
U.S. Marine Corps 2nd Lt. Victorino “Champ” Torres Untalan, son of Pedro T. and Elizabeth (deceased) Torres Untalan, will graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, tomorrow, May 23, 2014, and will be commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps.
Victorino “Champ” Torres Untalan
Following graduation, Untalan has been assigned for further training at the U.S. Marine Corps “The Basic School” located in Quantico, Virginia.
Untalan is a 2009 graduate of Marianas High School on Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
The mission of the U.S. Naval Academy is to develop midshipmen morally, mentally and physically for the privilege of serving as leaders of sailors and Marines who have volunteered to serve our country.
Considered one of the top educational institutions in the country, the U.S. Naval Academy was founded in 1845 and has graduated more than 77,000 men and women as Naval and Marine Corps officers. Its graduates include one President, 22 members of Congress, three governors, 27 chiefs of Naval Operations, nine commandants of the Marine Corps, 73 Medal of Honor recipients, two Nobel Prize awardees, and 52 astronauts.
The Brigade of Midshipmen is comprised of more than 4,000 students from every state and territory in the union. (PR)
