The swimmers over at RTC do it for a living, vice your friends. You will not be kicked out unless you reach the maximum time allowed for graduating boot. When I went through boot, my division had numerous amounts of people that did not know how to swim or were not confident in their abilities. It seemed like almost half of my division. Your RDC's will make you go to swim qual once or twice a week I believe. You have all the way up to your last few days to pass swim qual, or else you get held back and put in a new division. I would not worry so much if I were you. While there, you will be doing plenty of athletic activities, so it should get easier for you to do. Either way, you should be boosting your confidence, you will run into plenty of situations in the fleet that are more important than the swim qual. Remember, this is a one time qualification. It's not required to requal once you are in the fleet. That's something to think about.
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