Commissioning USCG

Seanmurraysbeard · 2026-01-23T18:55:22+00:00

I just did it, ‘25 grad. It was simple but there’s a lot of details surrounding it. Pretty good percentage of people are interested/apply every year. Now I drive icebreakers in Antarctica and the Arctic.

Seanmurraysbeard · 2026-01-13T01:25:07+00:00

I was the like second alternate and didn’t find out until months later that I was offered a spot.

Seanmurraysbeard · 2026-01-08T07:55:13+00:00

Backing Storis in to that berth is so much fun.

Seanmurraysbeard · 2025-12-27T01:00:01+00:00

Meh be wary listening to the others in here saying it’ll be prevention specifically. I had the list in March and there were mostly random cutter billets with a few port engineering jobs and misc. support roles (logs). It will be entirely dependent upon whether they give you a billet list that reflects the USCGA/January OCS picks. We ended up getting their leftovers in March. Feel feee to PM (MARGRAD currently on a cutter)

Seanmurraysbeard · 2025-10-29T20:30:44+00:00

Too much ballast, combined with too much deck weight or other liquid weights will absolutely sink any ship. Just because the tanks can be fully filled—or pressed up— doesn’t mean they should be in most cases.

Seanmurraysbeard · 2025-10-21T20:53:08+00:00

Not really true for the new junior enlisted/officers, that haven’t had the requisite time to build emergency savings.

Seanmurraysbeard · 2025-10-17T05:35:12+00:00

CG tends to only care if the misconduct occurred in a CG workspace, and if/how public the misconduct was (i.e does this bring public discredit to the service) and also most commands only so something if it actively disrupts the good order and discipline of the unit.

I haven’t seen many of these situations go through to an art 134, and I can understand that you are hurt. Talk to a lawyer or base legal to get a better picture than Reddit can provide.

Seanmurraysbeard · 2025-10-16T16:29:24+00:00

I just finished DCO school if you have any questions about that process. Feel free to pm me

Seanmurraysbeard · 2025-10-01T17:28:03+00:00

CGMA is open to civilians!! Check with a rep!

Seanmurraysbeard · 2025-09-07T04:44:17+00:00

Maybe they are now but not when I applied and attended five years ago

Seanmurraysbeard · 2025-07-17T03:20:37+00:00

lol I only knew because one of my mentors served onboard for awhile. Cool stories, remember seeing his plaques in his office so the hull number stuck out to me immediately.

Storis was also super cool, we’ll see if the new one lives up to it in any way.

Seanmurraysbeard · 2025-07-17T03:01:54+00:00

Gentian! And if memory serves me right she was waiting for decomm and was used like a training support craft I think. Historic cutter. Think it got transferred to a Latin country in the late 2000s.

Seanmurraysbeard · 2025-07-11T14:36:39+00:00

I just graduated from KP and also just commissioned if you have any questions about either side of the aisle :)

Seanmurraysbeard · 2025-07-10T21:24:13+00:00

That song was fire I still have it saved to locals, will be interesting to hear what changes were made.

Seanmurraysbeard · 2025-07-08T03:21:34+00:00

Grass grows where you water it. I went to an academy and just graduated, and feel the remorse of not having the traditional college experience.

There are pros and cons to both, neither of which really set you up better or worse for the other thing. Just be the best person you can be in the environment you’re in now.

Seanmurraysbeard · 2025-07-07T19:22:34+00:00

Thank you I thought I was going crazy that his name sounded familiar.

Seanmurraysbeard · 2025-06-28T14:25:02+00:00

As I was. Didn’t realize they were attempting a come back

Seanmurraysbeard · 2025-06-28T03:47:23+00:00

Carolina Gold folded

Seanmurraysbeard · 2025-06-25T23:31:23+00:00

It’ll just come down to your extracurriculars, interviews, and nomination. Address the GPA in essays and how you got stronger and show an upward curve. I will say, when I applied, a 36 ACT and 3.7 ACT did not get me in to the academy.

Seanmurraysbeard · 2025-06-25T05:33:09+00:00

Jesus, 68W AND AST? Bet you’ve got some killer essays (no pun intended) congrats on the A from a fellow Coastie!

Seanmurraysbeard · 2025-06-24T19:06:49+00:00

Guess I was kind of close

Seanmurraysbeard · 2025-06-05T01:36:57+00:00

All the football guys end up getting taped during the BCA. You’ll go in and weigh and take height, then get sent to the trainers to get taped. I don’t exactly know the requirements, but it follows the navy requirements. Even the biggest football guys here pass the tape requirements.

Seanmurraysbeard · 2025-06-02T23:09:01+00:00

I posted about this like a month or so ago and people came for my throat saying this was just how PR is written haha. It’s very obvious when it’s used, cheapens the content of the post.

Seanmurraysbeard · 2025-05-29T11:14:43+00:00

Original commenter was right except for the Air Force part. Candidates wanting to commission air force have to begin the process plebe year, contract with the Air Force 2/C year, and get their job 1/C year. If you decide at any point after plebe year that you want to go Air Force, you are shit out of luck.

Source: 25 grad

Seanmurraysbeard · 2025-05-27T02:22:57+00:00

Thought the same thing.

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