Uniform Company

Week 03
Uniform 182 has managed to trudge through another week of basic training. We are really beginning to hit our stride academically. Each day seems to be more crammed with classes than the one prior to it. Ranging from seamanship, to Coast Guard history. We are also treated to a healthy diet of physical fitness utilizing the state of the art facilities here at training center Cape May. This of course does not mean that there has been noticeable drop in incentive training. By now, everyone in the company has come to the understanding that our company commanders can, and will make time to reinforce whatever point needs reinforcing at the moment.

The morale of Uniform 182 is, in a word, improved. Not high by any means, but considerably better than previous weeks. I can attribute this to many key factors: first of all, we receive mail and the love and support conveyed through this correspondence has been extremely uplifting to all. Second our company commanders have started issuing hints on how to come together as a team. Finally, and most significantly we are all beginning to see a change in ourselves. We are truly starting to see one another as shipmates and treating each other as such. We are helping each other study and learn knots. Each and every shipmate in this company has something that he or she can contribute to make us a better, stronger team. If teamwork can remain our goal success will find us sooner, rather than later.

Uniform 182

Week 01 – 02

On the evening of January 12, 2010 more than one hundred travel weary and nervous young men and women made their way to the Philadelphia USO. The staff at the USO was extremely hospitable, friendly, and encouraging. From the airport in Philadelphia we all made the long bus ride to Cape May. All of us knew that we were in for a change in lifestyle. But I’m certain that not one of us knew the magnitude of that change, or the immediate impact it would have on our lives.

After almost three days of being herded around the base like cattle we were picked up by our company commanders. Our lead company commander is Yeoman First Class Mullins, assistant company commanders are Operations Specialist First Class Moon and Aviation Maintenance Technician Second Class Vandenberg. This is when the real training began. Our company commanders have been clear and concise about their expectations from the beginning. We must be loud. We must move quickly with a sense of urgency. And we must always maintain the most utmost self-discipline and military bearing. Our success in this department has been marginal at best, but we believe that uniform company will be able to come together as shipmates to help one another achieve our group and individual goals.

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