2025A Sea Year still stood down

ripstick

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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?
 
Idk, but sometimes things go wonky. USNA went through pains with PROTRAMID (week long trainings with each of the communities), and two years missed out on the trainings (‘22 and ‘23). What I learned through that disappointment, was that what matters was the graduation/commissioning requirement (time on a ship, I believe. Not PROTRAMID). Period. So the graduation requirements are what must be met and I would think USMMA is tending to that piece?

It’s disappointing. And I cannot speak to your situation. But rather overall, that finding ways to work through challenges and still commission classes is also part of managing difficult situations. Which the last few years certainly fall into: difficult situations.
 
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