This is awesome.
"Beat Army rings deep for Navy Officer"
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/Dec/13/gervy-alota-army-navy-football-eisenhower/?#article-copy
Dwight D. Eisenhower went there. So did Douglas MacArthur and Omar Bradley. Five-star generals all. U.S. Army, all.
West Pointers, all.
So there was Lt. Cmdr. Gervy Alota, set to receive his masters degree from the very same school, the United State Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Alota, Annapolis ’98, was one of the few Navy officers accepted annually into the leadership college.
Understand. A Navy brat from the Navy stronghold that is San Diego, Alota had gotten physically ill before starting at free safety in each of his four Army-Navy games. Similarly unable to stomach the thought of being pictured for posterity in the Army college’s yearbook — completely surrounded by enemy officers on every page — Alota waited until right before the photographer’s click to tear open the shirt of his Navy blues and reveal the two words underneath:
“Beat Army!”
“I got grief for that,” said Alota, proudly looking at the picture with his wife Bernice, a Montgomery High product and fellow U.S. Naval Academy grad. “The general called me in, sat me down, opened up the yearbook to my page and said, “Are you kidding me? Are you blanking kidding me?’
“I said, “Sir, I had to make my mark here.’ The general was stern and started to really scold me. But then he said (lowering voice), “That was pretty cool.” He turned his head and started to smile. He said, “
retty ballsy.” ”
The picture ran. Uncensored. Mark made.
