{"id":274314,"date":"2026-06-22T19:18:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/274314\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T19:18:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:18:05","slug":"u-s-merchant-marine-academy-graduation-held-in-kings-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/274314\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Merchant Marine Academy graduation held in Kings Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/USMMA-90th-Grad_062226_423e2-c-Karen-Rubin-Hats.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"USMMA 90th Grad_062226_423e2 (c) Karen Rubin-Hats\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Cadets celebrate their graduation from the U.S. Merchant Marine<br \/>\nAcademy in Kings Point. <\/p>\n<p>Karen Rubin\/news-photos-features.com<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy held its most recent commencement \u2014 the 90th, for the Class of 2026 \u2014 on Monday, June 22, at the Academy in Kings Point.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll delivered the commencement address. He was joined in congratulating the cadets by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-362876\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/USMMA-90th-Grad_062226_151e2-c-Karen-Rubin-SecArmy-Daniel-Driscoll.jpg\" alt=\"USMMA 90th Grad 062226 151e2 c Karen Rubin SecArmy Daniel Driscoll\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\"  \/>U.S. Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll delivered the commencement address at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Karen Rubin\/news-photos-features.com.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-362883 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/USMMA-90th-Grad_062226_133e2-c-Karen-Rubin-SecTrans-Sean-Duffy.jpg\" alt=\"USMMA 90th Grad 062226 133e2 c Karen Rubin SecTrans Sean Duffy\" width=\"700\" height=\"510\"  \/>U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy congratulates cadets at their graduation.Karen Rubin\/news-photos-features.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cadets celebrate their graduation from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point. Karen Rubin\/news-photos-features.com &#13; &#13; The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130,105572],"class_list":["post-274314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-u-s-merchant-marine-academy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}