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The United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA), located in New London, Connecticut, is the U.S. service academy specifically for the United States Coast Guard. Founded in 1876, the academy provides education to future Coast Guard officers in one of nine major fields of study. Students are officers-in-training, and are referred to as cadets.
LT Steverson '68 and LT(jg) Robert Thornton '72 with USCGA Class of 1978 minority cadets, 1974. As the Chief of the Minority Recruiting Section Lieutenant London Steverson desegregated the all-white United States Coast Guard Academy by recruiting more than 50 minority cadets in a two-year period from 1973 to 1974.
The United States Coast Guard Academy's Swab Summer is a seven-week initiation through which all cadets are required to pass. [1] It is the academy's boot camp. Swab Summer is a unique nickname for the program at the Coast Guard comparable to Cadet Basic Training (Beast Barracks) at the United States Military Academy and Plebe Summer at the ...
Fifty-five U.S. Coast Guard Academy cadets have been disciplined for sharing homework answers in violation of academy policy, Coast Guard officials announced. After a series of disciplinary ...
The grueling basic training for fledgling cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, known as swab summer, has been revamped this year in light of a sexual abuse scandal that has rocked the ...
Sep. 22—NEW LONDON — U.S. Coast Guard Academy officials informed academy employees Friday that a former cadet's allegations of inappropriate conduct on the part of a former academy law ...
U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Robert J. Papp Jr. talks with players of the Bears football team before a game on Saturday, September 11, 2010, at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. The 1951 team under head coach Nels Nitchman was the first undefeated team at the Coast Guard Academy.
The Coast Guard Academy is disenrolling seven cadets for failing to comply with the military's COVID-19 vaccination mandate, after their requests for religious exemptions were denied and they were ...