Swab Summer

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The United States Coast Guard Academy's Swab Summer is a seven-week initiation through which all Cadets are required to pass. 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 United States Naval Academy.

The program is intended to emphasize the principles of followership, teamwork, seamanship and military life. It also introduces Cadets to the Coast Guard core values of honor, respect, and devotion to duty. Swab Summer is run by 2nd class Cadets (Cadets entering their Junior year) who themselves experienced Swab Summer two years prior. At the end of the six weeks, Cadets also spend a week sailing aboard the Academy's cutter USCGC Eagle, the only tall ship in America's active forces.[1]

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  1. ^ United States Coast Guard. The United States Coast Guard Academy Viewbook. New London, CT (2006)