Greetings to all active duty, reserve, auxiliary, past, present, and especially FUTURE Coasties!
For those of you who have served or are serving, I want to thank you for your service. This website is primarily designed to assist Coast Guard recruits in their quest to prepare for the challenges of Coast Guard Basic Training.
It is one of the best, FREE online Coast Guard Boot Camp Preparation Resources! Here, you can find everything you need to help you get ready for Coast Guard Basic Training. You can check out helpful articles on physical preparation, and mental preparation, get the best-selling Survival Guide and a Fitness Success Program geared toward your fitness level. You can even find links to other Coast Guard resources.
I’m dedicated to giving you all the tools you need to help you succeed in USCG Basic Training. Please feel free to scroll down below to learn more about the specific aspects of getting ready for USCG Boot Camp.
If you have any questions about anything, please don’t hesitate to contact me and I’ll be glad to help you. My e-mail address is: bootcampsuccess@yahoo.com (On a side note, I hate SPAM in my e-mail inbox just as much as I hate it on my plate. Long story short, your e-mail stays with me and me only.)
Enjoy the website. I hope it helps you in some way.
Martin
Last Updated On: 19 APR 24
Last Date Validated: 23 APR 24
Secretary of Homeland Security: Alejandro Mayorkas
Commandant of the Coast Guard: Admiral Linda L. Fagan
Deputy Commandant for Mission Support: Vice Admiral Paul F. Thomas
Force Readiness Commander: Rear Admiral Jeffrey K. Randall
Commanding Officer: CAPT Warren D. Judge
Executive Officer: CDR Bradley Conway
Command Master Chief: CMC Radford Hoffpauir
Training Officer: CDR Amanda Denning
Regimental Officer: LCDR Ashly Thomas
Battalion Officer: LT Matthew Asire
Battalion Commander: YNCM Michael Snyder
*** In the military you write the date in the fashion that you see here. It’s the day first, followed by the abbreviated month, and ending with the year. Get used to it now. You will be doing it this way at the Cape May Training Center as well.
If you are shipping out close to the update date, this will likely be it. If you are shipping out later, keep an eye on this page for updates. You can also click on most of the names to go directly to the source pages (which will show you the current person in that position).
Last Updated On:
25 MAR 22
Last Date Validated:
25 MAR 22
Secretary of Homeland Security:
Commandant of the Coast Guard:
Deputy Commandant for Mission Support:
Training Officer:
CDR Scott Koser
Regimental Officer:
LT Charles Shaffer
Battalion Officer:
LTJG Matthew Asire
Battalion Commander:
SKCM Randall Lawrence
*** In the military you write the date in the fashion that you see here. It’s the day first, followed by the abbreviated month, and ending with the year. Get used to it now. You will be doing it this way at the Cape May Training Center as well.
If you are shipping out close to the update date, this will likely be it. If you are shipping out later, keep an eye on this page and I’ll update it as often as I get the latest one.
My name is Martin and I’m the guy behind SurviveCoastGuardBootCamp.com. I attended Coast Guard Basic Training in 2012 and although I loved the experience, when it was all over, I have to say that there were some really tough points during the actual process itself. I prepared as much as I could from the information that was available to me at the time, but there were so many instances when I found myself saying “Man, I wish I had known this prior to shipping out!”.
Of course these surprises were intentional. The people who design the boot camp curriculum don’t want you to know everything because knowledge equals confidence. If you have a recruit that shows up knowing everything, it’s hard to break someone like that down and apply artificial stress on them.
This is where the Survival Guide was born!
In the trenches of Cape May. I told myself that when I got back, I would do a giant ‘brain dump’ of everything and put it together into an organized format to help future recruits – and I did exactly that.
Since that time, the Survival Guide has undergone 5 editions! Whenever I find out about updates to the way things are being done at Cape May, I adjust those sections in the Survival Guide accordingly. The reality though is that the incredibly large majority of this stuff hasn’t changed in forever. They do tweak things here and there from time to time, but the majority of it is steeped in military and nautical tradition that goes back a very long time. There is only so much that can be adjusted in an attempt to try to win the information arms race that's resulted from the evolution of the internet.
It is my goal to continue being the #1 information resource for USCG recruits outside of recruiters and official USCG personnel involved with the recruitment process. Those will always be your best resource. If you wish to read more about my story, you can do that on the about me page. If you want to check out what some of your future shipmates have said about the Coast Guard Boot Camp Survival Guide, you can do that here.
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