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Originally Posted by beamie
Van,
I doubt they are going to scale that back and throw all the charter guys out of the card race. Obviosly for my job I have had the twic for a while. Boston is already a port in which your suppose to have one.
The "merchant mariner" is only a fraction of the people to be twic\ed. All truck drivers going inside secure areas etc, that number will far pass the mariner.
Just remember the most rediculous fact.......98% of the goods coming into US ports come on foreign flag ships, now ask yourself do all those guys need a twic card......no......just another tax for us guys. Can you tell I am a bit bitter......and they are changing the name of Mass Maritime school ship to the Kennedy name because he is such a yachtsman......whatever.....why did the size of the US Merchant Marine drop under his nose in the late 70's early 80's, he is no friend to the Merchant Marine is those regards yet all the local pols decided that the renaming was a great idea..........oh boy, now I'm pissed...gotta go!
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Good point Jon and your probably right. Why should they give a small group a break. Especially when money is involved. Just another tax to collect.
As for the captains class (which is the original poster's question) You will get out of it what you put in. If you pay attention you will be fine, learn plenty and pass the test with no problem. Again no matter what you will forget lots of what they teach you. I doubt that some "captains" can sit down and do even one part of the 10 plot they learned. I thought that was the best part of the class, something that I actually can use in a pinch,,,even today. The rest of the stuff is mind numbing.....Good Luck in whatever you decide.
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