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USCGA · Life at the academy · Year 2 of 4

Third class yearU.S. Coast Guard Academy · Third class

What year 2 of 4 at USCGA looks like: milestones, training, privileges and the service commitment, from official USCGA pages.

Hamilton Hall at the Coast Guard Academy, July 2008. Photo: US Coast Guard Academy via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

What this year is like

Third class cadets spend part of the summer aboard EAGLE and the rest at Coast Guard units, apply to their major and mentor fourth class cadets.

Duties
Third class cadets "serve as mentors to fourth class cadets" and begin formal leadership study1.

Key milestones and events

  • EAGLE and field units
  • Major application
  • Training with Cape May drill instructors
End of the year
training with drill instructors from the Coast Guard's Cape May boot camp to prepare for second class leadership roles1.

Academics and training

Summer training
"Every Third Class Cadet spends five or six weeks of the 11 week summer aboard EAGLE," with the rest at Coast Guard field units. Cadets work as junior petty officers1. Units range from the East and West Coasts to Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico2.
Academics
You apply to your major1.

Privileges

USCGA’s public pages don’t publish privileges for this class year, so we don’t list any. Ask the academy.

Service commitment

When it becomes binding: We didn't find this point stated on the official pages we reviewed. Ask the academy.

Sources

  1. Third Class Year (uscga.edu)
  2. USCGA: Summer in the Field (uscga.edu)

Official pages change. Confirm details with USCGA before you plan around them.

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