Thanks all. Maybe we chat in 3 months. Idk. Sending my paperwork to the uscg today. Paid 95 plus 45 so maybe ill get something good in the mail 90 days from now.
As part of my reply, I provided you with some professional reading materials. One was the Army Crewmanâs Handbook which was a partial. Here is a link to the full manual.
Army Marine Crewmanâs Handbook FM-55-501 1999 ed Full Manual 731 pages
PM if you have problems with the links. Good Luck
Thanks it opened fine. Thanks for the information.
So i got news today my medical certificate was issued. Is this seperate from also getting my MMC or are they one in the same. Please advise. Thanks for anyone who helps me out because I am kinda stressed about it.
Separate documents, evaluated and processed separately.
Itâs separate. My medical took about a month, the mmc showed up a couple of months later.
Thereâs nothing to stress about.
You donât need your MMC for the apprenticeship program at SIU (piney point) because they will help you get your first MMC (and later on the upgrades).
If you wanted to join SIU without going to the apprenticeship program you would need your MMC to get a job as an OS. From what Iâve heard OS jobs are hard to find at SIU because students at SIU apprenticeship program have priority for OS jobs for their 60 day and 120 day sails as part of the apprenticeship program. Youâll only ever see an OS job on the board if itâs not taken by Piney Point students going through apprenticeship program.
Not familiar w/ the seminar but probably so. Do not let the Jax SIU crowd influence your planned career path. I will say no more, but you can choose which hall to ship out of, believe Savannah has one. You never let on what career path has been your livelihood till now. you may want to rapidly settle on a niche sector, i.e. research vessels, MSC contract vsls, tankers etc. Try to leverage that experience once you get you start sailing. You are starting later than 90%, so no time to waste. Upgrade as soon as you can. If being an officer is your goal, great; but stay at third longer and really learn it. In your case, staying at third or second may be your best bet. Remember the higher paying ships frequently attract unsavory members who are sometimes not the best shipmates. Read, ask and learn, avoid being outspoken or a sea lawyer (look it up). Once you have a few years underway, try to make it known you are in this career for the long haul till age 67-69. Therefore staying healthy is priority one. Caution at all times, a history of injuries will mark you. SIU demands physicals at 6mo intervals and the USCG at 2 yr, and MSC depending on the contract will demand their own physical bi-annual at 50, annual at 60. Good luck mate.
Well shit. I wish i had looked more into that. I got all the stuff before taking the exam
Ok so my MMC has been issued and should be here within a week or two. I was watching âthe wandering marinerâ on you tube to help me make some decisions. He kind of got me discouraged talking about when he got his mmc and went to siu for work and they told him he didnt have a deep sea mmc. That he could only work on lakes and inland rivers. So is that going to be the case for the mmc Iâm about to recieve? How do I know the difference?
Plus I dont have money for training or piney point. Like I say 0 experience and I do want to go out on deep sea sailings. Would it probably be in my best interest to join MSC then? I also dont have the money to sit around a union hall in a hotel on my own dime to wait for work. Would like to start asap. With MSC I would get MMC upgrades with time and training right?
Anyhelp or advice is much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Assuming you put down Ordinary Seaman, Wiper, and Food Handler. as the entry level endorsements you applied for, you should be good to go whatever facet of the industry you start in. Not knowing what was told to âthe wandering marinerâ it could have been he was lacking some of the other classes needed to sail deep sea. Typically BST and VPDSD come to mind.
I have no idea what sort of timeline is involved from application to on the payroll with MSC.