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Cape May City Elementary School is the school for elementary-aged children living at the training center. The Coast Guard financially supports the school. Dependent elementary-aged children on the base attend Cape May City Elementary School, the only school of the Cape May City School District. In previous eras the Coast Guard children made up ...
Originally known as Government Island, this artificial island was formed in 1913 by the dredging project that extended the Oakland Estuary to San Leandro Bay.The Coast Guard first came to the island in 1926 when it established "Base 11" under an Executive Order signed in September 1931 that gave title to a 15-acre (6.1 ha) tract for a permanent base.
Military recruit training, commonly known as basic training or boot camp, refers to the initial instruction of new military personnel. It is a physically and psychologically intensive process, which resocializes its subjects for the unique demands of military employment .
Integrated Support Command Alameda (ISC Alameda) is a large operating base of the United States Coast Guard, located on Coast Guard Island in Alameda, California Now known as Base Alameda. ISC Alameda provides a wide variety of services in direct support of Coast Guard activities throughout the west coast of the United States of America. Among ...
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USCGC Icarus, a 165-foot (50 m) cutter that previously had been a rumrunner chaser during Prohibition, sank U-352 on 9 May 1942, off the coast of Cape Lookout, North Carolina, and took 33 prisoners, the first Germans taken in combat by any U.S. force. USCGC Thetis sank U-157 on 10 June 1942. During the war, Coast Guard units sank 12 German and ...
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Cape May Inlet is 1 mile (1.6 km) long and connects Cape May Harbor with the Atlantic Ocean, and separates Two Mile Beach to the northeast from Poverty Beach to the southwest. It is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) northeast of the City of Cape May. The United States Coast Guard Training Center Cape May is located on the southwest shore of Cape May Inlet.