EFFING PERFECT!
You did not hijack it. Your input is ALWAYS welcome Captain.
So, what is the name for the Facebook group, if itâs setup?
Offshore Mariners and Mates Association.
However, I am changing it to Brotherhood of Licensed Officers Working Mariners and Engineers. Figure it out. I will act shocked if anyone brings it up.
Our motto is âWe are sailors. What did you expect?â In latin, âNos nautis. Quid exspectas?â. I like both because they both poke fun at âthe establishmentâ and I think that we all have that common bond.
Unless your target audience is female it does seem a bit odd for a mariner, especially an engineer, to solicit a homosexual act.
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I have no idea what you are talking aboutâŚ
I am going to recommend Jim Cavo to take over at MMC if I am asked.
Comments?
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I wouldnât wish that on my worst enemy. But heâd be good for NMC.
does he want that headache?
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I think Jim Cavo would do an excellent job running NMC. Would that be enough of a promotion to make it worth his while? The USCG definitely needs more people of his caliber.
Iâm not sure that would even be a promotion for him.
Yea everyone who went to the academies would move up in rank I can promise you that. The guys from the south would not have a chance to move up. He is 100% for Academy people . Just ask his opinion
I would disagree with that, what he is 100% for is people who can read the CFRâs and NVICâs and follow them and advance their tickets without resorting to sketchy sidesteps at the expense of the regulations as theyâre laid out.
Oh wait, I said read, not âask for a friendâ what a CFR says. Maybe youâre right, but you do realize that there is an academy in the south right? Or is Texas not south enough for you?
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Well Iâm out of here this site is for suck asses and thatâs not me especially you Phoenix.
You are a dirt bag
Maybe. But more than anything Iâm a âdirt bagâ thatâs sick and tired of people running rough shod over the regs. Iâve sailed under two Captains that couldnât read, and one that was freaking color blind for crying out loud! My attitude and feelings on the issue have nothing to do with where they were from, but everything to do with the fact that they shouldnât have had the positions they did⌠much less the licenses they did.
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See ya later snowflake.
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Such an apt description.
What, just because I didnât want someone to get a license they didnât earn and werenât tested for?
Stop with your fucking Southerner persecution complex. Guys from the south go to academies and guys from the North hawsepipe. Plus, working in the South doesnât mean someone loves in or is from the South. It also doesnât mean they did or did not go to an academy.
All we knew about your âfriendâ was that he worked on mud boats. He could be an Academy graduate who lives in Colorado for all any of us knows. We disagreed with him being given a license he didnât earn, it had nothing to do with him being from anywhere.
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I am a hawespiper. I did not go to an academy.
The entire US licensing system has been biased toward academy grads since the 1960s. It only gets worse and worse.
That has nothing to do with Jim Cavo or whether he would do a good job running NMC, which he would.
Bayou Joe Boss has been buying Congressmen, and the USCG, for special giveaway licenses for his bayou boys since the 1960âs. At one time USCG personnel in New Orleans were flat out caught selling licenses to Joeâs boys. Things have gotten a world better than they use to be in the oil patch, mostly because of STCW ISM, and oil company vetting.
Congress and the USCG allowed Bayou Joe to buy licenses for people with third grade educations. And he created the special OSV only licenses. By doing so, Bayou Joe discredited limited US licenses and Hawespipers. USCG Limited licenses became untrustworthy, if not a laughingstock.
Bayou Joe is still up to his old tricks. Now Joe has gotten more giveaways so his boys can upgrade from OSV licenses to unlimited licenses. Also, Joe Boss runs his own taxpayer subsidized school down in the bayou that are only for his own employees. The USCG allows Bayou Joe to give the USCG exams at the school for limited licenses, and allows Joe to issue STCW course certificates to his own boys. Everyone passes at Joeâs school. Anyone outside the Gulf sees a conflict of interest in this. Anyone outside the Gulf doubts the integrity of this.
The result is that for years many employers outside the Gulf have not trusted or had much respect for a USCG limited license. Certainly no one anywhere else in the world trusts a US limited license.
So now with Bayou Joeâs Large OSV licenses and OSV to unlimited license giveaways, and STCW certificates churned out by Joeâs own school, is it any wonder that an unlimited license is no longer enough. Now most employers outside the oil patch want to see a college B.S. degree and STCW certificates from a legitimate Maritime Academy in addition to an unlimited license.
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