Start of Swab Summer

Published: June 25, 2012

Hayley Smith, of Scotland, Conn., sounds-off during a roll call for Echo Company as members of the United States Coast Guard Academy class of 2016 report-in for the first day of "swab summer" Monday, June 25, 2012 at the academy in New London. R-Day marks the traditional start of Swab Summer, an intense seven-week training program designed to transform civilian students into military men and women ready to accept the challenges that await them in their pursuit to become Coast Guard officers.

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Sean D. Elliot/The Day

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