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@Lazarus_Navy The SHIPS act should include waiving federal income tax for US merchant mariners. This would increase interest and recruiting as well as take pressure off companies to make immediate high wage increases.
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Michael La Maina ⚓️
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Michael La Maina ⚓️
@MichaelLaMaina1
Father, Husband, Ship Captain, USMMA, Masters Mates & Pilots, Maersk Line Ltd, Red Sky Sailing Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain Katılım Şubat 2024
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@github my account was suspended and I can’t access my work. Please help. - account : mikelamaina. Urgent
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@MarioNawfal @grok what year car should I buy to avoid this
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🇮🇱 Your car is a surveillance device, and Israeli firms are selling governments the keys to access it.
Your car has cameras, microphones, SIM cards, and GPS, just like a smartphone on wheels.
At least 3 Israeli companies are already in this game, including Toka, co-founded by former PM Ehud Barak, which can remotely tap your microphone, access your cameras, and track you in real time.
And tracking is just the beginning. Governments now want the ability to remotely disable cars too.
The more connected your car becomes, the more exposed you are.
Source: Haaretz
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🚨🇨🇳🇮🇱 ISRAEL BANS CHINESE CARS FROM MILITARY BASES - BECAUSE SPIES COME STANDARD NOW Israel just dropped the hammer on Chinese-made vehicles - banning them from all IDF bases. Why? Because in 2025, espionage doesn’t need a spy - it just needs a car. Think sensors, GPS, comms systems. Microphones that never sleep. Cameras that don’t blink. All built-in. All phoning home. China’s automakers insist it's paranoia. Israel's defense establishment calls it counterintelligence 101. In a world where your car knows where you sleep, what you say, and who you’re near - Beijing doesn’t need to hack the Mossad. It just needs a warranty agreement. The next war won’t be fought on the battlefield. It’ll be in your driveway. Source: @clashreport, Israel National News
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To restore sea power, we must appropriately MAN sea power. We cannot support our currently flagged merchant fleet. An amendment to this wonderful document is that every USMMA graduate, whose education was provided for by the American taxpayer, immediately sail for the Military Sealift Command upon graduation. This is no different than any other federal service academy.
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White House just released the Maritime Action Plan, a dense blueprint to rebuild U.S. shipbuilding and restore American sea power.
If Congress follows through with the vessel fees + Maritime Security Trust Fund.. can this Trump create the long-term demand signal shipyards and investors need?
gcaptain.com/white-house-ma…
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Pay attention. The real truth behind what Trump is doing.
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A harbor pilot has died after falling from a pilot ladder by St. Andrews Pass on Monday night. The USCG reported that the pilot was found within 5 minutes, and CPR was performed. The pilot was later pronounced dead by EMS. mypanhandle.com/news/local-new…
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@johnkonrad @SecDuffy Where will we find 100 Captains / Mates?
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We need 100 oil tankers if we want any hope of winning a war in the Pacific.
NO we are NOT giving the Venezuela one back.
It’s going straight into @SecDuffy’s Ready Reserve Fleet. It’s ours now. And if some federal judge tries to block that..
gcaptain.com/the-us-navy-ne…
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John Ʌ Konrad V@johnkonrad
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A school with no Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent, or Provost.
It has no hot water in the dorms, but they do have mold.
They are unable to recruit or retain the students they do have.
They are a microcosm of the US merchant marine.
Maia@maiamindel
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🇺🇸𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿⚓️@USN_Submariner
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@MichaelLaMaina1 @SecDuffy I don’t think pay is the issue. A grad go can work as a 3 A/E for MSC and clear $200k in their first year but the lifestyle sucks and who knows when you’ll get relief, maybe 8 months, maybe 10.
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The United States Merchant Marine Academy is home to some of the most remarkable men and women I’ve ever met.
BEAT COAST GUARD 💪
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@johnkonrad This video needs to show more commercial Merchant Mariners not the armed forces. Only a small % go into a service. How about we mimic other countries and waive federal income tax for merchant mariners? That would surely garner some interest.
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@DaniEdgarNY @SecDuffy What’s the tuition there these days?
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@SecDuffy Don’t overlook the big training ship right offshore, under the bridge where the most capable Merchant Mariners are trained at Maritime College. It’s not just KP.
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Some nights I didn’t want to go to bed. I just wanted to stand on the stern for a few more hours.
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Want proof hands on college is better than brand recognition?
The best pilot school in the world - Navy Flight School - kept laser focused on hands on training and our carriers & jets are still best in the world.
The best submarine school in the world - Navy Nuclear Power School - kept hands on training and we still build the best submarines.
The best warship college in the world - Naval War College - went all 100% academic and then went woke and now China is absolutely slaughtering us on shipbuilding.
John Ʌ Konrad V@johnkonrad
Disagree absolutely and unequivocally. @ERAU_Daytona is ranked 4th globally for Aerospace Engineering. Period. Stanford & MIT are fantastic but not on an active runway. Pensacola is fantastic but has no launch pad and is not in the backyard of Kennedy Space Center. When are we going to learn that PRACTICAL HANDS-ON COLLEGE is 10x better than classroom instruction? My son got recruited for CALTECH baseball and really likes Cornell but picked ERAU. It was an incredibly hard decision because CALTECH is fantastic and the best brand in the business, but he can still go there for his master’s. Leaving USNA for a state school in the Bronx was the hardest call of my life. But @MaritimeCollege had a real ship, tugs, and a tanker barge — while USNA axed celestial nav and starved the YPs. I’ll never get a 💰 think tank gig or any appointment in DC with my SUNY degree… but I do have two Guinness World Records and built a ship that pushed all design boundaries. Annapolis grads are not qualified for those jobs. Undergrad should 💯 include getting your hands dirty and taking real risks. His mom is nervous every time he straps into an airplane. This is how we win. Build real things. Test real things. Make mom nervous. Explore the stars!! P.S. @rookisaacman didn’t attend CALTECH; he graduated from Embry Riddle.
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@shagbark_hick Best kept secret in the USA. KP 99
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I know a guy who did this. Came from the same town as I did, poor family, no prospects.
Did a hitch in the Army, went USMMA, and is now earning $200k/yr as a First Officer on a cargo ship running from New Orleans to Asia.
90% of the rest of our peers are working minimum wage.
𝕸𝖊𝖗𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖙 𝕻𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖈𝖊@SeaDogFrog
An unconventional adventurous career path that most people are probably unaware of is attending the United States Merchant Marine Academy as prior enlisted in the military. You can enroll in the academy up until age 25, and the admissions process is the same as Annapolis or West Point except that it's open to all branches. So you can enlist out of high school and complete whatever military training appeals to you, including longer commitment contracts such as attending nuclear power school (possibly also high speed SF stuff). After that you apply for a conditional release to attend USMMA. From USMMA you can either commission into the reserve component or go active duty in any branch of the military, and graduate with a Merchant Marine Officer's license and Bachelor's degree in either Marine Transportation or Engineering. The benefits of an engineering degree are self explanatory, and the transportation degree is a good foundation to go to law school for maritime law. If you decide to ship out in the merchant fleet, junior officers make about $150-225k per year. Senior officers make about $250-300k. You also only work 6 months out ot the year, and you are free to do whatever you want with your time off. Engineers typically get paid more than Deck officers because they are more in demand. You can also go active duty in any branch and pursue whatever kind of career in the military you want (aviation, infantry, surface warfare, etc). This is also one of the few ways to become an officer in the Coast Guard. So now you graduate with veteran status, a college degree from a federal service academy, an officer's commission anywhere you want, and a high paying job you can fall back on at any time. Escape the permanent under class.
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