A quartet of friends who bonded on the football team at the U.S. Naval Academy remained lifelong friends until the DC plane ...

Brian Ellis, a 1993 Naval Academy graduate and former varsity football player, was among 67 victims of last week’s midair ...

It would become a lifelong friendship for Ellis, Chatlos, Che’ Bolden and Mark McGinnis. They played four years of Navy football and did a lot of summer training cruises together, he said.

It would become a lifelong friendship for Ellis, Chatlos, Che’ Bolden and Mark McGinnis. The early years of the friendship between four graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy. From left ...