Philippine Coast Guard Academy PCGA – Philippine Coast Guard Academy PCGA: Premier Maritime Law Enforcement Training
15 Brutally Honest Truths About PCGA
- The only academy where “coast guard” means both saving lives and losing sleep
- PCGA WiFi is as reliable as a rubber boat in typhoon season
- You haven’t truly experienced PCGA until you’ve polished brass at 3AM
- Cadets communicate in nautical terms and sleep-deprived mumbles
- The quarterdeck is 50% inspection-ready and 50% cadets questioning their sanity
- Every PCGA cadet has mastered sleeping while standing watch
- The real school color isn’t white – it’s the sunburn from deck drills
- You’ll develop a sixth sense for knowing which officers are doing rounds
- Rescue simulations are just tests to see who can tread water longest
- Instructors can detect half-polished insignias from across the compound
- The only thing more precise than your knots are your excuses
- You know you’re true PCGA material when you consider the ship your home
- Graduation is just PCGA saying “Now go save lives (and don’t drown)”
- The maritime program is where they teach you to navigate both seas and bureaucracy
- Campus is so nautical even the classrooms smell like saltwater

Originally posted 2006-07-06 11:06:48.
