In this episode, your host Grant Vermeer speaks with United States Naval Academy graduate Tilman Dunbar '16 about his experiences as a TAD ensign during plebe summer.

Tilman was selected to serve after his graduation to coach with the varsity basketball team and serve also in the PE department during plebe summer.

Grant and Tilman talk about Tilman's experiences as a student at the naval academy and later as an ensign helping out for activities like PEP, swimming, boxing, and the rock climbing wall.

You will definitely learn a lot about how the academy utilizes newly commissioned officers to play a key role during plebe summer. 

Tilman talks about why he selected an assignment as a Surface Warfare Officer.

Grant and Tilman are close friends, were teammates at the academy, on the All Navy team 2019, and are teammates again on the All USA Armed Forces Basketball Team headed to Wuhan, China in October 2019 for the military world games. 

Tilman shares his outstanding charitable work with the PUSO Foundation as it's Creative Director.

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Links Mentioned in the Show:

PUSO Foundation

Tilman's Book Recommendations:
 

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Grant Vermeer your host is the person who started it all. He is the founder of Academy Insider and the host of The Academy Insider podcast and the USNA Property Network Podcast. He was a recruited athlete which brought him to Annapolis where he was a four year member of the varsity basketball team. He was a cyber operations major and commissioned into the Cryptologic Warfare Community. He was stationed at Fort Meade and supported the Subsurface Direct Support mission.

He separated from the Navy in 2023 and now owns The Vermeer Group, a boutique residential real estate company that specializes in serving the United States Naval Academy community PCSing to California & Texas.

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