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Students at these academies are organized as cadets, and graduate with appropriate licenses from the U.S. Coast Guard and/or the U.S. Merchant Marine.While not immediately offered a commission as an officer within a service, cadets do have the opportunity to participate in commissioning programs like the Strategic Sealift Officer Program (Navy) and Maritime Academy Graduate (Coast Guard).
A three-year program trains international watch keeping officers for the Merchant Navy. After 12 months at sea, the OCQPI can complete their ENSM training to access the unlimited Master's certificate. [8] The program is open to persons with a baccalauréat and to holders of two-year degrees. [7]
On average, about one third of the graduating class each year will actively sail on their Coast Guard license as either Unlimited Third Mates or Third Assistant Engineers in the U.S. Merchant Marine, about one third will go to work in the civilian maritime industry ashore, and the remaining one third will enter active duty military service. A ...
In 2019, U.S. Navy secretary Richard V. Spencer signed a memorandum leading to the establishment of a Naval University System (NUS). [1] NUS is the primary way that the United States Department of the Navy (DON) delivers education to its force, and it includes the DON's eight academic degree granting institutions. [2]
United States Merchant Marine Academy: US service academy: Linthicum: Maritime Institute of Technology and Graduate Studies: Non-degree program; offers classes for professional licenses (e.g. 3rd Mate, Chief Mate, Master). Merged with Fremont Maritime Services. [32] Miramar: Broward College Marine Center of Excellence [31] Norfolk: Mid-Atlantic ...
As the war drew to a close, plans were made to convert the academy's wartime curriculum to a four-year, college-level program to meet the peacetime requirements of the merchant marine. In 1948, such a course was instituted. [citation needed] Authorization for awarding the degree of Bachelor of Science to graduates was granted by Congress in ...
In the British Merchant Navy a master mariner who has sailed in command of an ocean-going merchant ship will be titled captain. A professional seafarer who holds a restricted or limited master's certificate who has sailed in command of a ship (i.e. appropriate to the size, power or geographic limits of their certificate) can also be titled captain
The STA-21 commissioning program is designed to allow active-duty sailors with high ability to gain a college education and become commissioned officers in the unrestricted line (URL), special duty officer (intelligence), special duty officer (cryptologic warfare, formerly information warfare and cryptologist), nurse corps (NC), nuclear, supply corps (SC), civil engineer corps (CEC), explosive ...