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Hardly a labyrinth these days. There's a pretty defined plan for any SWO (Qualified OOD) to convert to 3/M and the USCG has a chat available to get information on it. Additionally, there's a defined way for someone with any engineering degree to convert to a 3AE license with seatime/exams. All...

How is advertising graduates correlated with the curriculum of the school? He is right, day to day school work and regimental life are 100% geared towards merchant sailing. MSC has nothing to do with this. vastly different? in terms of the day to day job there are differences, although I...

Foreign flag vessels other than drill rigs/LNG carriers, etc pay peanuts in general and less than you would earn working at Starbucks. If you want to work on them that's your choice. More demand for engineers, however the engineering degree at KP is not equivalent to a traditional engineering...

No you can't. If the sailing job market continues the way it is now you definitely can't. If the sailing market free falls by the time you graduated, which is actually pretty likely, then you may be able to. Basically all depends on what happens in 3 years.

This has nothing to do with keeping up with people. Merchant Marine officer pay is highly stagnant. Airlines and UPS drivers have had far better deals and wage hikes. If you are going to be part of a trade (glorified tradeschool) you might as well choose one where the workers are in the drivers...

Great, what school can the student sailing 10-11 months a year at MSC with sub dial up speed internet get his or her MBA from? Must be a diploma mill. I’m sure the professors would be very understanding in other cases of you having to get up and leave every 75 days (JA tanker schedule) and...

The money hasn't kept up with the general growth of wages in different industries (i.e. Airlines, UPS Drivers, etc). Working for Military Sealift Command you average 1-2 Months off per year and 10-11 Months working. Your per day/per hour rate is quite terrible. Starting your life at 27 puts...

You can write that as many times as you want but that doesn’t make it true. (Speaking about traditional MBA programs here.) Broad trend among corporate professionals is to pursue professional/executive “weekend MBA” programs rather than full time programs. This is due to massive opportunity cost...

Yes you did and your comment was unfounded because the two issues are unrelated. KP is not the only source of merchant marine officers. Being a ship's officer does not require even a high school education and there are certainly people out there today sailing as master or chief engineer without...

How does the mariner shortage have anything to do with how "hard" KP is? Once you graduate and go to the fleet a license is a license regardless of if or where you went to school. If you fail at KP you can easily transfer to another school or hawsepipe to get your license. People also...

Try the electric grid blowing out during finals week, being out for weeks, and the school having to keep Delano open all night for us to study in.

So your plan is for students who are basically midshipmen in a NROTC program that they cannot accept active duty commissions into the Navy (or other services)? The student cannot go active duty from a service academy? This is part of a cycle in which in another few years there will be no jobs...

Actually no. Neither of those go into depth with commercial topics. Tradewinds News or Lloyd's list. Tradewinds has a one month subscription for $4. Read as much as you can. Both are for free once youre a student at KP. Once youre a student read as much as you can every day.

Do you have a copy of the CFRs on your ships? 5 years of active duty service + 3 years reserve or 8 Active Duty service 1) fulfills your service obligation to MARAD in full without a waiver 2) relieves you of your obligation to renew your USCG License after 5 years. This is not policy but law...

There's nothing funny about this. If you don't know freestyle, back/breast/side stroke or how to tread water mainly using your legs you do not know how to swim period. most of the other students are a mile ahead of that. Need to work on that or it will be painful in swim class.

Swims like a fish but does not know backstroke or breaststroke? Something smells fishy to me. Best advice would be get swimming lessons asap. You need to know how to do that and remedial swim does not teach you anything — I know, I was in it.

So it makes sense that you should pursue that route because there were a few people who were successful at it? There are probably a few successful KP'ers in every field by chance. Anything is a reasonable goal, however, taking the KP path to get there might not be. In the case of being an AD...

Seriously? Are you a US Merchant Marine Academy deck program graduate currently in the fleet? What do you know about the deck program at KP??

Not necessarily true. Totally dependent on the accessions environment. If other sources can satisfy accessions requirements then commissioning AD in any designator/community can get competitive quickly. Big Navy is short on enlisted sailors, but not as much on officers. To be frank, the odds of...

Lol. Your score is 51st percentile for all persons who took the test in the country, not of those who were admitted to USNA. Your score would be below the 25th Percentile for those admitted to USNA. Quick Google search shows that 25% is around 1250. You need better research.