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From: budden@trout.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Coast Guard Boot Camp
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Date: 8 Aug 90 03:02:00 GMT
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From: budden@trout.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg)
The Coast Guard's boot camp is located at Cape May, NJ -- southern
tip, about one bridge after you run out of Garden State Parkway.
Last I looked, boot camp was 8 weeks.  It's not all that different 
from the boot camps of other services...physical training, learn how
to wear the uniform, ... a sea service slat -- learn to swim (or prove
that you can), some bos'n mate things, small arms training.  

Since the late 70s (fairly radical policy change about 79 or 80),
all boot camp graduates go to some unit, most of them operational.
Give you some taste of at least part of the Coast Guard before you
commit to an A school.  Nobody goes directly from boot camp to
A school any more.  

It's been years since I was actually in the gate at Cape May so
my data is not terribly complete...most of the time when I get
down in that neighborhood its to visit our lab across the channel
at Wildwood...But EECEN's CO is a commander and she currently works
at the training center....

Rex Buddenberg,
Lcdr USCG