U.S. Flagged Ship - Some crew lacks credentials

Of course not but it was my understanding that they were the lowest pay and thus can be expected to be the last filled. If that’s not the case now, I welcome new knowledge.

When you have a bottom scraping contact ANY change in the labor market will immediately put your contract as non competitive. With shore side wages going up due to inflation my guess is that a lot of ABs are now ashore doing other things.