Please contact Training Center Cape May’s battalion officer for recruit issues at 609-898-6715. Please know the recruit’s full name, report date and graduation date if available.

Please contact the American Red Cross Emergency Communications Center at (877) 272-7337 (toll-free) to get a message to a recruit about a family emergency or situation.

Coast Guard Training Center Cape May does not keep a library of recruit company photos. If you graduated after 2000, you may contact the Training Center’s contract photographer at www.princephoto.com to see if a copy is available for purchase.

Coast Guard Training Center Cape May does not keep a record of recruit rosters. You may be able to connect with some of your boot camp shipmates on a variety of blogs, forums or social media sites.

Tour request forms and the submission process can be obtained by clicking on the Visitor Services tab or by contacting the Public Affairs Office.

You can find your recruit's graduation date by clicking on the Graduation Info tab.

You can find the graduation day events listing by clicking on the Graduation Info tab.

Please mail the National Ensign with a letter requesting it be flown to the following POC:

Commanding Officer
Attn: Mr. Ed White
1 Munro Avenue
Cape May, NJ 08204
609-898-6901

In the letter, please include the retiree's full name and rank, years of service and boot camp company if available.

Please include a prepaid return or forwarding shipping label and packaging materials.

Yes. You are encouraged to send letters to your loved ones. You cannot, however, send care packages (e.g. food, books, magazines, etc.) as they are not authorized.

MAIL CORRESPONDENCE TO:

SR (Last name, First initial)

Company # and Hall (James, Healy or Munro)

1 Munro Avenue

USCG TRACEN

Cape May, NJ, 08204

*You will typically receive a letter by about the middle of week 2 with information about your recruit's company name and which hall to address your letter to.

After completing recruit training, each graduate is permitted up to 05 days of regular leave. This leave will start the Saturday following graduation from boot camp. Service members taking recruit leave must report to their new unit during regular working hours on a regular workday (e.g. Monday - Friday) and not on a holiday.

Any graduate desiring to save leave may do so by proceeding to his or her intended unit immediately following graduation.

The live stream of the graduations are viewed by going to the training center's Facebook page at www.facebook.com/uscoastguardbootcamp

*It should be noted that the live streams are a courtesy and not a guarantee. There could be technical issues or resource availability issues that would interfere with the stream. The live streams are not intended to be high definition productions of the graduation ceremonies.

If you are looking for higher quality video products from your loved one's graduation, you should contact VTS at 609-365-8889

For information on our service or the different jobs and opportunities in the Coast Guard, go to www.gocoastguard.com. You can also find a recruiter on that page that can answer questions about joining the service.