[kiryandil]

Merchant marine had to be an extremely dangerous job in the early years of the war.

The fracking Murmansk run would have turned my hair white...

[rlmorel]

My feeling has always been that men in the Merchant Marine should have at least been considered, but I have to temper that with the concept of making rules that have a lot of exceptions, and once one starts doing that, it can wave with the political wind depending on whom is being pandered to.