Posted on 09/04/2019 12:19:21 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Seafaring service members may soon be able to transition to the U.S. Merchant Marine with less hassle and at less cost than currently required under an executive order signed March 4 by President Donald Trump. The order is designed to bolster the ranks of the Merchant Marine and increase job opportunities for transitioning troops. Under the order, the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security will, over the next year, identify all military training and experience that may meet merchant mariner credentialing qualifications and requirements. Members of the Merchant Marines can be called up for service by the Navy. They serve on civilian and federally owned merchant ships, supporting trade and military sealift operations. U.S. water transportation workers earn on average $65,700 a year, with many merchant mariners taking home more than that, according to officials. Read more about the order on Military.com.
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only pirates
Merchant Marine didn’t fare too well in WWII.
That was 80 years ago.
Their opponents fared much worse.
His last wish was to be interned with his shipmates off the Faroe Islands where one of the convoy he made was part of, was attacked by U-boats and men lost.
Some of his remains went to his shipmates and the rest to Arlington National Cemetery, where he and mom now reside.
My uncle was a merchant marine. He passed away in 1963.
The sea alone is a non-forgiving thing. Toss in being shot at, torpedoed, etc and it's a hard, hard job.
I wonder if he would qualify ??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSdz5ln2rME
He’s strong to the finish, cuz he eats his spinach ……...
I wonder if he would qualify ??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSdz5ln2rME
He’s strong to the finish, cuz he eats his spinach ……...
“Merchant Marine didn’t fare too well in WWII.”
My father was in WWII, in the navy, until his ship got hit and he got his back broken. The nerve effects, luckily, wore off in a couple of weeks, but the navy discharged him. He tried to get back into the machine but no service would take him. He joined the merchant marines and finished the war. All he ever said was we didn’t have guns.
My son joined and I was able to understand what he was doing through him. I can promise if the member is married, the Merchant Marines will destroy that with long stays at sea, and a true separation. It’s a tough life.
rwood
My ex and I got along better when I was on the road. She actually appreciated me when I was there. When I took a job that didn’t have travel, we both ended up hating each other.
Sorry to hear that. With my experience with the military, 32 years, and my sons situation with the MM’s, he was so much out to sea, about 10 months of the year, the appreciation in most cases does not cover the endless loneliness and pressure of running a household for extended time frames of almost no communication. He was single and I asked him if he had friends that were having problems and as the crew spends so much time together, they open up a lot and he told me that a majority of the married crew had them. Most ended up in divorce he said.
She made me feel more alone laying next to her in bed than I did if I was the only human around for 25 miles.
I guess I was luckier than you in that I have had the same woman since I was 17 years old. We went through ‘nam and my getting hit. We went through a couple of my trips to the middle east with my getting wounded twice, and separations of as much as a year and a half at one time while I was busy in the business in different parts of the world and her not knowing where I was.
She’s tougher than I am and took care of the family and the businesses with trouble sometimes knocking on our door with me away from the country. I got lucky. I’m sorry you weren’t quite as much.
rwood
The problem with my ex began when I turned over 90% of my paycheck to “her” checking account, which I had no visibility.
After that, she essentially quit talking to me about everything. I was the one who took the kids to scouts, church, grocery shopping, choir, birthday parties, and just about everywhere I went. She couldn’t handle the 3 of them together, but I could (and did).
When we went to our one and only “counselling session” with the pastor, she was 30 minutes late, and blamed me because it was so inconvenient now that I wasn’t there to be the “taxi driver”. The pastor, in that one instance, sided with me and told her “You can’t want him home to make it more convenient for you, you have to want him home because you love him”. Well, I told her to pick the date/time of our next session, since she is a teacher and I work IT and my schedule is more flexible. That was November 2016. That indicated how important it was to her for “us” to be “us”.
When someone makes you feel more alone lying next to them than 50 miles out to sea, that should indicate one doesn’t need to be in that relationship.
Nope, since counselling didn’t help the communication problem you and she have, it generally means both don’t need to be in a relationship. I say communication problem because there is no effort for her to let you know her thoughts, feelings, and different ideologies on a relationship, parenting, and the business side of a marriage. Not all unions are salvageable. Bad debt.
rwood
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