The Wesley Brown Field House is a sports arena at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
[5] The synthetic playing surface (with football-field yard-lines) is stored on a spool at the field house's south end.
[5] The surface is put in place by nine winches and an 18-port air-blower that makes the turf float across the field-house floor while being deployed and retracted.
[7] The facility is named for the first African American to graduate from the Academy, retired Lt. Cmdr.
[2] Brown participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen, Naval Academy Superintendent Vice Adm. Jeffrey L. Fowler, and Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley.