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Hi everyone,

I have just got to pass this along.  It is so SAD but really funny.  You remember a few years ago when the Summer Olympics were going on and one of the persons selling tickets to U. S. Citizens first, refused to sell tickets to a lady in New Mexico because she lived in a foreign country?  Well this are along the same lines.

“Norleen, I have to share a story with you because I know you can appreciate it.  An applicant for an engineers license received a letter from our friends at NMC requesting the propulsion mode for all the vessels listed on his sea service letter.  There were 10 towing vessels listed and each one was listed as M/V and the vessel name.

I contacted the young woman and asked why she sent the letter.  She didn’t know that M/V stood for motor vessel.  After I explained it to her she said “Oh, I couldn’t understand how 10 vessels could have the same first name”.

( you can’t make this stuff up).

If any of you have similar stories, please share them with me.  This is just one more perfect example to add to my portfolio to take to the various Senators, Congressmen and Representatives to show them just exactly what you and I face daily when dealing with NMC.

I can only say that it appears that training is sourly missing at NMC and this is a perfect example.  Training is essential, not only for the evaluators at NMC but for you the Mariner.  If it wasn’t for folks like me and the folks above, contacting NMC on your behalf, you, the mariner, would be (pardon my french here) screwed because some untrained evaluator thinks they have it right.

Keep sending me stories, I love them.  I know they frustrate you and make you angry, but as stated above (YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP).

Touch Keys with you later,

N.

There is an old sea story about a ship’s Captain who inspected his sailors and afterward told the Chief Boatswain that his men smelled bad.

The Captain suggested perhaps it would help if the sailors would change their under ware occasionally.

The Chief responded, “Aye, Aye Sir, I’ll see to it immediately!”

The Chief went straight to the sailors berthing and announced, “The Captain thinks you guys smell bad and wants you to change your under ware.”  “Pittman, you change with Jones, McCarthy, you change with Witkowski, and Brown, you change with Shultz.”  “Now get to it!!”

The MORAL:

SOMEONE MAY BE PROMISING “CHANGE” IN WASHINGTON, BUT DON’T COUNT ON THINGS SMELLING ANY BETTER.

Touch Keys with you later,

N.