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About United States Coast Guard Academy

The United States Coast Guard Academy, more familiarly recognized as simply USCGA, is the military academy of the United States Coast Guard, and it is situated in New London, which is a seaport city and a port of entry on the northeast US coast, located at the mouth of the Thames River, in New London County, in the southeastern area of the US state of Connecticut.

USCGA traces its roots to the School of Instruction of the Revenue Cutter Service, the school of the Revenue Cutter Service, founded near New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1876, being moved to Curtis Bay, Maryland, in 1900, and then again in 1910, to Fort Trumbull, near New London, Connecticut, the modern academy we know today being opened in 1915, when the Revenue Cutter Service and the Life Saving Service merged, forming the modern Coast Guard.

Besides military training, the academy offers 8 majors, in: Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Operations Research and Computer Analysis, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Government, and Management.

Athletics

The USCGA Athletic Department offers 23 intercollegiate sports for cadets, the academy's sports teams being known as the Bears, which compete in Division III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and Division I, for Rifle and Pistol. Their mascot is Objee the Bear.

Notable Alumni

Among USCGA's noteworthy graduates, there are: Elmer Fowler Stone - United States Naval Aviator, piloted the NC-4 on the first naval transatlantic flight, Erroll M. Brown - first African-American Coast Guard admiral, Bruce E. Melnick - first Coast Guard astronaut, Joseph Stika - Vice admiral, recipient of the Navy Cross, and Leonidas I. Robinson - first Academy graduate to die in the line of duty.