Jaenichen Confirmed as MARAD Administrator

Jaenichen Confirmed as MARAD Administrator
Pledges to Work with MARAD to Strengthen Domestic Maritime Industry and Preserve Jones Act Integrity
BY MAREX

The U.S. Senate confirmed Paul “Chip” Jaenichen as U.S. Maritime Administrator on July 15, approving President Obama’s choice for the country’s top maritime post.

Administrator Jaenichen has been with the U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration since July 2012 when he was appointed Deputy Maritime Administrator by President Obama.

“AMP members appreciate Administrator Jaenichen’s understanding that a strong domestic maritime industry is critical for U.S. economic, national, and homeland security and that this essential industry is best supported by maintaining the Jones Act, which serves as the foundation of the nation’s vibrant domestic maritime policy. We look forward to working with him to ensure that the American maritime sector can grow and thrive as we proudly continue our service to the nation,” said American Maritime Partnership Chairman Thomas A. Allegretti.

Captain Jaenichen was a career naval officer, retiring after serving 30 years as nuclear trained Submarine Officer in the U.S. Navy. Jaenichen’s hometown is Brandenburg, Kentucky.

[QUOTE=leadline;141052]Captain Jaenichen was a career naval officer, retiring after serving 30 years as nuclear trained Submarine Officer in the U.S. Navy.[/QUOTE]

F’ing marvelous! The guy started his career viewing merchant ships as targets now he will double dip with the same vision.

Is there some reason we can’t have a real merchant mariner in that position? Is it too much to ask to have a subject matter expert running our maritime policy?

The frigging navy can’t even mind its own shop, now look what we have overseeing the demise of the industry that fed them, fueled them, supplied them and saved their useless butts in every war they declared (or not) since 1941.

Will this insanity never end?

Absolutely brilliant. A submarine guy for the head of surface shipping. A patronage hand out to some organization I would wager.
What next? A drone operator to head the FAA?

[QUOTE=tengineer1;141055]Absolutely brilliant. A submarine guy for the head of surface shipping. A patronage hand out to some organization I would wager.
What next? A drone operator to head the FAA?[/QUOTE]

A DECORATED Drone Operator

[QUOTE=tengineer1;141055]Absolutely brilliant. A submarine guy for the head of surface shipping. A patronage hand out to some organization I would wager.
What next? A drone operator to head the FAA?[/QUOTE]

please everyone…as lame of a choice as Jaenichen might be…at least he has been on the ocean before and can find them on a map! Lest I remind all here who his predecessor was?

I won’t name names but just look at the guilty party and whistle…

yes folks, it has actually happened…c.captain is quelling criticism here. Y’all should mark this as an historic moment.

KP Fanfare Suicide Trumpet Squadron sound a salute!

[QUOTE=Steamer;141053]The frigging navy can’t even mind its own shop, now look what we have overseeing the demise of the industry that fed them, fueled them, supplied them and saved their useless butts in every war they declared (or not) since 1941.[/QUOTE]

mind your tongue there Steamer…the USN of WWII was hardly useless!

now, you wouldn’t want to make the ghost of Bill Halsey angry now, would you? His tongue alone could decapitate a man at twenty paces they say!

Point being even Halsey couldn’t have been successful without the USMM. It would have been a very short and not very sweet war for the Allies had the US Merchant Marine been managed by the likes of those who have created the policies that gave us what we have today.

Get the military out of commercial shipping, force them to use American flagged and manned ships for military cargoes, and stop squandering maritime money to create more little ring knockers in a back door second rate wannabe naval academy in New York.

[QUOTE=Steamer;141083]Point being even Halsey couldn’t have been successful without the USMM. It would have been a very short and not very sweet war for the Allies had the US Merchant Marine been managed by the likes of those who have created the policies that gave us what we have today.

Get the military out of commercial shipping, force them to use American flagged and manned ships for military cargoes, and stop squandering maritime money to create more little ring knockers in a back door second rate wannabe naval academy in New York.[/QUOTE]
Amen brother. Qualifying to make figure eights in the middle of the Atlantic in no way shows a person knows the first thing about making money or creating an framework of rules to ensure a competitive workforce.