When you take the class do you go out and fight fires and get dunk in the pool again? Or is it just class room?

I agree. Ironically there are still people getting passes on these revalidations due to covid. Some do and some don’t. I personally know a few people who have renewed in the last 6 months and had more than enough seatime. Some got told no classes, some got told to do the classes. The school in so c…

My local taxpayer funded (by me) school gives me the same line. “Oh, we are much cheaper considering no travel costs.” I travel quite a bit and can make a pit stop at a cheaper school along the way. For me, what fits my schedule is most important. The good thing about the bigger schools is that th…

Yikes, not cheap…I remember doing BT at MSC San Diego for about $500…

Not sure if it is a covid casualty or not, but MSC isn’t allowing outsiders to take their courses. Everything they had was 100 bucks a day. Did my original advanced fire fighting and my original basic training there years ago. Top notch operation with great instructors. Its a shame its not open to …

Makes sense. I was really impressed with instructors and training while there. Hopefully they’ll open courses back up to the public…

maybe continuing education coverage for mariners will sneak its way into the latest education reforms being proposed… :rofl:

Last time I checked with MSC, their courses were only open to MSC employees and the employees of MSC contractors. It has probably changed, but at one point some private schools were allowed send their advanced fire students to the MSC fire school in NJ. For awhile SIU had a pretty good deal for re…

Aren’t the ex-Harley companies in California union? Why can’t those employees go union schools for free?

[image] tugsailor: Aren’t the ex-Harley companies in California union? Not sure where all that ended up with the transition. I know starlight was siu and they could go to the piney point school. I know a few that took advantage of it. The millennium guys were ibu. Not sure if they had any pa…

Did my I hear something about Saltchuk buying one of the California ex-Harley companies.

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