Swab Summer begins
for Coast Guard Academy class of 2020
Posted Jun. 27, 2016
at 6:14 PM
NEW LONDON
It didn’t take long
Monday for the 313
“swabs,”
or
incoming
U.S. Coast
Guard Academy cadets,
to learn their lives had changed.
Minutes after
leaving their friends and family members behind
at the Roland Hall check-in
center,
the young men and
women were loaded onto yellow school buses and deposited outside an interior
courtyard on the New London campus where second-class cadets
those students with
two years of Academy life under their belts - were waiting.
Oh, but for the good
old days.
O.K.
So
maybe not so good
old days,
at least not
in 1961 July in the 'Great Lakes.
Not all that much
has changes
in
55 years.
July 5th 1961
group # 329
September 19th 1961
3rd down 3rd over
top right
is one scard kid!
top right
is one scard kid!
We were being
groomed for a skirmish that started being called a war after the public and the
media got involved.
This group of
'swabs' will be going out to this very corrupt world, may Creator place a
blessing on each one of them.