Can't swim or float! :(

[Auridan]

Originally Posted by mlroehl

You'll get opportunities to swim if you don't pass your initial qualification....but you'll miss training time. I think we asmo'd 7 people just cause they couldn't swim. And you'll irritate your yeoman cause he/she will always be writing you inter-station passes to go find Nemo (j/k)

You're not going to miss any mandatory training (live fire, marlinspike, firefighting, etc.), but you will be swimming while the division does almost everything else. Mostly that means you'll likely be behind the curve on drill. Missing PT won't hurt you much, since swimming's such a good workout.

We had one guy who failed every single swim qual because he was too dense to float. At the very end, after he got ASMO'd, they finally gave him some personalized attention, and he ended up graduating on time with a different division. So unless you really are genetically 7/8ths rock, you'll pass eventually.