USCGA Ideal Applicants

CDR James A. Sylvester (Ret), '71, President, USCGA Alumni Association, interview with CAPT Steve Finton '81, Director of Admissions, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

[@1notgilty]

The U.S. Coast Guard is highly competitive at all levels. For enlisted members the Coast Guard currently only accepts about four percent of applicants and twenty percent of those who are accepted will not graduate from basic training on time or will be discharged.

[@ColonelMarcellus]

They all have good eyesight.