[QUOTE=Worldmariner;183928] … … so if you have an AB Limited ticket, you will be hired as an Ordinary at MSC. …[/QUOTE]ABs unlimited or otherwise, as well as former Navy BMs are hired as ABs. The only ABs hired as OSs are those that decide to apply for that position, which could happen when there are no AB openings. It happens but rarely. Even then, any one of them could ask to sail as an AB…and would immediately get their wish. Ask me how I know.