Was told this week that 2025A is unlikely to get on commercial ships out of priority to 2024. Instead, they plan to send 2025 to ROS ships in December and then load the training ships in January. EMBARC has made it excruciatingly difficult to add commercial billets to sea year, while MARAD has bragged about the companies that have joined onto the policy, we were told there are only around 25 ships actually available.
Doesn't this defeat the entire purpose of a federal academy? Why is there a FEDERAL academy that touts sea year as a unique experience when the last two years worth of sailors have been confined to ships that don't leave the dock or on training ships?
Doesn't this defeat the entire purpose of a federal academy? Why is there a FEDERAL academy that touts sea year as a unique experience when the last two years worth of sailors have been confined to ships that don't leave the dock or on training ships?