Coast Guard Academy welcomes 291 new cadets for start of Swab Summer 

The Give American Service Academies are run, managed and supervised differently than the Regular Service components. I know at West Point the upperclass cadets run, supervise and manage the individual companies of cadets ( about 100 cadets each ) and are watched over, mentored and directly supervised by the Tactical Officers (Regular Army Officers in the grade of Captain and/or Major). Each Cadet Company has a Tactical Non Commissioned Officer as well but he or she is more of an administrative technician. In short, West Point, is run by the OFFICERS at The United States Military Academy which is quite different than the Regular Army, Army Reserve, Army National Guard both Active and InActive.