Academi

opened in 1998

  • 1997 founded as Blackwater
  • May 15, 1998 Training center opened
    – 6,000-acres
    – cost $6.5 million
  • November 2006 acquired 80-acre facility in Mount Carroll, Illinois
    – called Impact Training Center
  • July 2008 Southwest’s facility in San Diego opened
  • 2009 renamed as Xe Services
  • 2011 acquired by private investors and renamed Academi
  • 2014 became a division of Constellis Group

Moyock, NC

 54 tactical ranges, five ballistic houses, multiple MOUT/scenario facilities, four ship-boarding simulators, two airfields and three drop-zones, a three-mile tactical driving track, 25 classrooms, multiple explosive training ranges, a private training center, accommodations for over 450 personnel and other training support activity centers

https://www.academi.com/pages/facilities/moyock-nc


ACADEMI Southwest’s facility

  • 61,000 sq. ft. warehouse facility
  • 25 yd. Indoor Firearms Range (12 stations), rated 7.62mm NATO, high/low light
  • 3 fully equipped climate controlled classrooms (Computer, projector, Wi-Fi)
  • Ship simulator (3 deck levels)
  • Non-Lethal Training Ammunition Shoot House (2500 sq. ft.)
  • Container Climbing/Rappel Tower

https://www.academi.com/pages/facilities/san-diego-ca


ACADEMI in Salem, Connecticut

  • A 12-lane indoor range for rifle, pistol, shotgun
    25-yard
  • Practical Lab
  • Firearms Training Simulator

https://www.academi.com/pages/facilities/salem-ct

U.S. Naval Academy Museum

12 guns on display

Founded in 1845

Annapolis, Maryland

  • 1845 – founded as the Naval School Lyceum
  • 1849 –  Navy’s collection of historic flags added to collection
  • 1939 – construction of Preble Hall
  • 12,000 square feet
  • four galleries
  • 2007-2009 – complete renovation to turn the building into a modern museum
  • Rogers Ship Model Collection (108 ship and boat models)
  • Naval Academy Art Collection (1,200 paintings)
  • Malcolm Storer Naval Medals Collection (w/ ancient coins)
  • Beverley R. Robinson Collection
     (woodcuts, etchings, line engravings, mezzotints, aquatints, and lithographs of naval history).
  • open seven days a week, from 9 am to 5 pm on Mondays through Saturdays, and 11 am to 5 pm on Sundays; it is only closed on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day

U.S. Naval Academy Museum
118 Maryland Avenue
Annapolis, MD 21402-5034
(410) 293-2108
http://www.usna.edu/Museum