{"id":46315,"date":"2022-12-06T14:58:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T14:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/12\/06\/midshipmen-drop-leaflets-ping-pong-balls-on-cadets-ahead-of-big-game\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:57:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:57:28","slug":"midshipmen-drop-leaflets-ping-pong-balls-on-cadets-ahead-of-big-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2022\/12\/06\/midshipmen-drop-leaflets-ping-pong-balls-on-cadets-ahead-of-big-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Midshipmen drop leaflets, Ping-Pong balls on cadets ahead of big game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The U.S. Naval Academy Midshipmen have taken to the skies in an early assault on their Army brethren dubbed \u201cOperation Black Knight Falling,\u201d with a kind of psychological operations mission that would make many an intelligence officer proud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an official statement released Tuesday, the Naval Academy confirmed that on Monday midshipmen took to the skies and bombarded their cadet rivals at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point with \u201cBeat Army\u201d and \u201cFly Navy\u201d leaflets\u2026along with some ping pong balls.<\/p>\n\n\n\t