The Daily Life of a Plebe with Guest Matt Meltzer USNA '17

In this episode, you learn a lot about what goes on in a typical day at the United States Naval Academy, specifically for the plebes.

We go from the moment they wake up to the moment they fall asleep and everything in between. Everything from the military obligations to the academic obligations to the athletic obligations. Matt provides great insight from something that he will mention in the podcast as the "NARP" perspective or the non-athletic regular person, where I come from a varsity athlete perspective. We cover all of the different possibilities of what a day could be like whether you're an athlete or not at the United States Naval Academy.

Matt is originally from New York City. He was in 23rd company and a political science major. He did an exchange semester at the Coast Guard Academy. The billets that he held include a company commander for 23rd company in the fall of his firstie year and the highlight of his time at the Academy was working as the regimental XO for second set of plebe summer for the class of 2020.

Matt now is a surface warfare officer onboard USS Chafee which is a guided missile destroyer homeported in Pearl Harbor. Matt is the main propulsion officer on the ship.

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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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