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Press Release | June 1, 2023

Training Center Cape May to fire 40MM battery for 75th Anniversary

CAPE MAY, N.J. — The Coast Guard Training Center Cape May Armory staff will be conducting a 19-Gun Salute from the regimental 40MM saluting battery on base beginning at approximately 2:15 p.m., June 8, in celebration of the training center’s 75th Anniversary of recruit training.

There will be five second intervals between blasts. People living or transiting in proximity to the base may hear and feel the cannon blasts.