Posted on 06/23/2016 12:52:53 PM PDT by fishtank
One of the great benefits of attending the US Merchant Marine Academy is the experience of going out to sea on US-Flag merchant ships. This is called ‘Sea Year’.
While the state schools primarily rely on school ships, USMMA Midshipmen are sent, generally two at a time, to commercial vessels trading around the world. That is until now — if the following information released by the USMMA Alumni Association is to be believed:
Please see the following announcement from the Academy concerning Sea Year:
While the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Maritime Administration (MARAD), and the United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) have made consistent efforts to address sexual assault and sexual harassment on campus over the last few years, we’ve grappled with appropriate means of extending these efforts during “Sea Year” when the Midshipmen are off campus training on working U.S. merchant marine vessels. The safety of these young women and men are our highest priority, and the USMMA is standing down having Midshipmen serve on these vessels until it is assured that their training will be carried out in a safe environment.
(Excerpt) Read more at gcaptain.com ...
Uh oh. Real world intrudes on unicorn-land.
Haha.
Sad but true.
There are lots of women on US merchant vessels. Most of them you wouldn’t want to take on.
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Kings Point admitted women in about 1976, three years after the California Maritime Academy and two and a half years after the Maine Maritime Academy. The state academies have their own training ships for part of the sea service required for the students to sit for their Coast Guard issued licenses as deck officers and marine engineers. But those students also work on commercial merchant ships for at least 60 days.
Kings Point has always sent their students out to sea; I am wondering why this issue is coming up now?
It's out to sea with you, just like before.
I thought USMMA meant United States Mixed Martial Arts.
All these initials for titles confuse me!
Sea Year is a tradition of a year of real world sea life. The Merchant Marine Academy Cadets go to college there 11 months out of the year and complete a 4 year college degree in 3 years. Sea Year is their 4th year of the Academy.
Sea Year has not been stopped even during wartime. 147 Merchant Marine Military Academy cadets gave their lives during their own Sea Years on Merchant Marine ships on convoys between 1942 to 1945.
So, I guess Sea Year has been renamed to...
Sea Ya Next Year.
Sexual Assault and Harassment is one of Obama’s recruiting Ads
My best high school math teacher (c 1966), was an USMMA graduate. He inspired in me a life-long love of number that - even though I didn’t realize it at the time - I somehow think he always knew was there.
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