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KU cheerleaders are dancing in front of the naval cadet stand.

The new champion today

Naval cadet wuttichai is the devil cheerleader champion of the RTNA

HA !HA! HA!........

This is Namoo team

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The Seaman-Farmer Games

This game started more than 50 years ago when the RTNA rugby football team invited the Kasetsart University rugby football team to practice in the RTNA. Friendship between the two institutions was built in a short time. Captain Sawatt Putianan, the RTNA Commandant, and Dr. Sawan Wajoggasikit, president of Kasetsart University encouraged both rugby football teams to build friendship between the two institutions for better cooperation in the future, for sportsman spirit and for unity in Thai society. In 1952 it became the Royal Thai Naval Academy- Kasetsart University sports. In that first Game, Commander Latti Tamisanon was the team manager of the RTNA and Mr. Seri Trirat was the team manager of Kasetsart University.

Later, the Royal Thai Naval Academy- Kasetsart University Games changed its name to the Seaman-Farmer Games: naval cadets work at sea so we are called seamen and Kasetsart University students work in agriculture so they are called farmers. The Seaman-Farmer Games disappeared for about ten years. The Games were brought back as an annual competition recently.

Now the Royal Thai Naval Academy and Kasetsat University join to play the traditional sports we call Seaman-Farmer Games every year. The Royal Thai Naval Academy and Kasetsart University take turns to host the Games. The Seaman-Farmer Games consist of three main activities.

(1) Tour session
We make a tour around the host institution. If the RTNA is the host we will take Kasetsart University students to the Chulachomklao Fort, if Kasetsart University is the host they will take the naval cadets to see agricultural land.

(2) Sports session
We play rugby football, basketball, petanque, sepuk-takraw (a ball game played with a wicker ball), tug of war etc.

(3) Party time
At the party we have folk songs, fancy drill show and sing each institution’s song together to close the party. About 700 people join these Games.

This is the opening of the Seaman-Farmer Games

Tour session

Tour the ant museum

Naval cadet cheer

Cheer Cheer Cheer We Cheer the Navy! "Do you have a soft drink?"

Basketball

Don't let him shoot.

We interviewed Captain Chutima Neampohka, math professor, former Kasetsart University Student.

Q: How long have you known about the Seaman-Farmer Games?

A: I’ve been joining it since I was a student at Kasetsart university, I had work there about 32 years ago , but I did join this activity before that.

Q: What activities did you like to do?

A: I liked to go to the mouth of the river because I sat on the boat and floated in the Chao Praya river and there were naval cadets taking care of everything. Naval cadets were very lovely (at that time).

Q: What is the difference between activities in the past and nowadays?

A: In the past, the Seaman–Farmer Games was as grand as the Samsamor [Three-Anchor] night. There were many naval cadets and Kasetsart students at the party at night. There were a lot of activities at the party; we cooked together, sang songs and danced. Some of the Kasetsart University students (men) that drank too much, slept with naval cadets in the RTNA because they couldn’t go back and they would be brought clothes to change in the morning too.

Q: What do you think about the Seaman-Farmer Games nowadays?

A: Nowadays I think it’s smaller than the past. It may be about the budget to work. Now it’s like the two schools come to play sports more than to join in activities.

Q: Besides sports, what else do we get from this tradition?

A: Yes, we are now friends and some people have met their soulmates at this event. In the future, we don’t know what will happen. Maybe people we meet in the Seaman-Farmer Games will become our colleague or spouse, but there is something that you will get for sure. It is friendship.