About the Chapter

The Greater Kansas City Chapter is a long established Naval Academy Alumni Association chapter and currently there are over 250 USNA alumni who reside in our extended metro region of over 2.5 million people.

Our chapter area covers both states of Kansas and Western Missouri surrounding Kansas City including the metropolitan areas of Kansas City (Missouri), Kansas City (Kansas), all of the suburbs such as (not all inclusive) Olathe, Overland Park, Lenexa, Leawood, Shawnee, Mission Hills, North Kansas City, Gladstone, Lees Summit, Independence, Blue Springs, Liberty and as far as Lawrence and Leavenworth, Kansas.

The Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) is at nearby Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas and many Navy and Marine Corps 0-4 officers, who are Naval Academy graduates, attend that mid-career graduate level military course or whom are instructors there. The Navy and Marine Corps also send career officers to Kansas University to obtain advanced degrees such as the Petroleum Management MBA program.

We are currently trying to expand our active chapter membership roll in 2024 with a fuller program calendar of meetings, gatherings, and activities which will help promote the Naval Academy and bind alumni together in support of the traditions, memories, and growth of the Academy. Part of our mission is also to seek out, inform, encourage, and assist outstanding qualified young men and women to pursue careers as officers in the Navy and Marine Corps through the Naval Academy teaming with the Blue and Gold Officers in the KC Metro Area.

We fully support the local USNA Parents Club and their efforts to support their sons and daughters who are currently Midshipmen at the Naval Academy. We participate in their annual events like golf tournaments and send off picnics of incoming Plebes.

We also support the area USNA Blue and Gold Organization who are generally former or current Navy or Marine Corps officers, or Reserve officers, in their quest to assist high school students and their parents in their applications to the Naval Academy. We help fund their activities.

We often have joint activities with the local West Point Society of Graduates and the Air Force Academy Association of Graduates including joint happy hours monthly, joint football watch parties when we play each other, and semi annual golf competitions, air shows where the Blue Angels are in KC to perform. We involve them in ship commissioning activities like the USS Kansas City (LCS-22), and other key Navy League activities. They in turn invite us to their events like Founders Day dinners and special commemorative service events.

Our published chapter bylaws on this site explain how our organization is formed and operates, and the requirements to obtaining local chapter membership, which is in addition to an annual or lifetime membership with the national USNA Alumni Association in Annapolis. Local annual dues are $25 annually payable to the Treasurer. Please contact Eric Carlson ’74 directly (see chapter officers) and arrange to pay your 2024 dues. We hope to have the ability to pay on-line on this web page soon. Please email Eric to get the street address to mail your $25 or special donation check: j.eric.carlson@gmail.com.

If you are a resident of our chapter area or visiting during a meeting/activity or have a connection that you want to strengthen with our members, please join the Chapter. You do not have to be a local chapter member to participate in a meeting or activity but we hope you will consider joining as you witness the camaraderie and inclusiveness of our group. Graduates and non graduates of welcome as well civilians who can be associate chapter members.

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