United States Coast Guard Academy - Tide Rips Yearbook (New London, CT)

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But, as so many good things are, graduation week was over all too quickly and once again we shoved off to sea. and to those far away places. ' llowever. we didnxt really push off too far at all. Our first port of call was Cape May, New jul-say and what a time we had - once we got there. The Coast Cuard goes through surf and storm and howling gale but, by golly, we go nowhere in the fog. On the weekend that we were to depart for Cod's Countryv a big fog rolled into New London and our Private Planesv couldnit land, take off, Hy, or anything else that planes are supposed to do. But finally the sun shone through and after about a million attempts to go, we finally made it. To look at us you,d have thought it was National Boy Scout WVeek, but deep down in- side we were still cadets. At Cape May, we learned all about the inner workings and hidden mechanisms of the M-I rifle and .45 pistol and even how to fire them. Cui' stay at the rifle range was about a week and besides having a lot of fun, we learned a lot about rifles and firing procedure, so weill be able to tell the Marines how, just in case the Navy ever becomes a part of the Coast Cuard. Sit tight, Chris, we just started moving 'nf-1 Maybe we'll leave this time, huh, Frank? But just to be serious for a minute, we all hope and pray that that day will never come and what we learned at Cape May will just be a pleasant memory and experience. Having been in jersey a couple of days we soon found that it really wasnit uCod,s Country after all. The mosquitoes werenit big, they were huge. After our first night time raid, it was unanimously decided to bolt the racks to the deck so the cockroaches wouldnit carry them away. The two stripes on our dungarees really im- pressed the boys at the Cape. In fact they were so impressed that the recruit messcooks wanted us to stand at parade rest and in a straight line. However after a few soft spoken words were directed their way, they decided to leave us alone. But before we leave Cape May for our sum- mer cruise, this history wouldn,t be complete if I didnit mention our world famous, All- American rowing team. In the annals of Coast Cuard History their adventures will be recorded and unequalled Cthis last clause is certain be- cause of the increased concern shown towards cadets by commissioned officersb. But never-the-less our heroes survived after being restricted for a day and in body the class of ,58 finally embarked on their second class cruise. 27

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