How about the silliest phone call. When I applied for my 200 ton upgrade I received a call from REC New Orleans saying, I don’t understand why you applied for a Master 200 ton when we show you as only being an OS. I said I don’t know how that can be as I have held my 100 ton for 2 years.
I told them check the Homeport Web site and you will see that, I was told that is not the website that they use. So your the Coast Guard and you don’t use the Coast Guard website? No were not allowed to use that website.
I’ll just pass this along to the NMC and let them figure it out. WHOA wait a minute, let me check some thing out and I will get back to you, what is you employee number or identification number so when they asked me to take a survey I can tell them how you helped me.
But I didn’t help you,No shit genius. So she put me on hold and never came back. So I called back the number on my caller ID and when I got the Supervisor nobody would admit to having talked with me. The supervisor had me send her copies of my MMD and then signed off on my application and sent it down stream.
I think it is time to do away with the REC. If you received a letter from the NMC, then the REC didn’t do their job. They should contract out the exams like the FAA does and have all applications sent to the NMC.
Also if the NMC can send you out an email telling you there is a problem with your application, then why can’t they send you an email telling you what the problem is. You have to call them and then they will email you the same letter that’s in the mail saving you a number of days to get your application in order or appeal their decision.
Just think of the cost savings of closing all the REC’s Obama would have more money to send to Hamas.