⚓ SWAB DRILL

About Swab Drill

Purpose: fast recall practice for a future Coast Guard Academy candidate. It is not an official USCGA product and cadre questions vary by year and company.

Question labels: “Public Running Light tradition” marks traditional prompts found in publicly available Running Light/indoc study material. Other material is based primarily on official USCGA and U.S. Coast Guard sources.

Modes:

• Random Drill: everything, shuffled.
• Study: choose a topic and work through it.
• Cadre Mode: timed, loud, unpredictable. The timer expiring counts as pressure—not automatically as a miss.
• Trouble Spots: favors anything previously marked “Hesitated” or “Missed.”

Keyboard: Space = reveal; 1 = Got it; 2 = Hesitated; 3 = Missed.

Sources checked August 2026: U.S. Coast Guard Academy mission, history, traditions, EAGLE and Swab Summer pages; U.S. Coast Guard Historian mission/history pages; USCG Sea Legs glossary; USCG cutter and aviation program pages; public Running Light/Swab indoc study sets.

Important: current leadership names and other fast-changing facts are intentionally omitted so the question bank does not silently go stale.