United States Merchant Marine | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-27

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00:03:08 1 Shipboard operations
00:08:16 2 History
00:09:19 2.1 Revolutionary War
00:10:26 2.2 19th and 20th centuries
00:14:44 2.3 21st century
00:17:14 3 Fleets
00:17:23 3.1 Commercial fleet
00:21:27 3.2 Federal fleet
00:24:07 4 Training
00:24:40 4.1 Officers / Licensed (Unlimited Tonnage)
00:25:54 4.1.1 United States Merchant Marine Academy
00:30:25 4.1.1.1 Military Status of Midshipmen
00:31:40 4.1.2 State maritime academies
00:33:46 4.1.3 Hawsepiper
00:34:37 4.2 Ratings / Unlicensed
00:35:39 4.3 Limited-tonnage mariners
00:36:04 5 Important laws
00:36:35 5.1 The Seamen's Act of 1915
00:37:59 5.2 The Jones Act
00:39:21 5.3 The Merchant Marine Act
00:40:28 5.4 International regulations
00:41:43 6 Noted U.S. Merchant Mariners
00:46:44 7 Recipients of the Merchant Marine Distinguished Service Medal
00:47:31 8 Fictional accounts
00:47:47 8.1 In animations and cartoons
00:48:14 8.2 Onscreen
00:48:22 8.2.1 World War II fare
00:49:06 8.2.2 Other movies prominently featuring the United States Merchant Marine
00:49:51 8.2.3 On television
00:51:50 8.3 Onstage
00:52:08 8.4 In literature
00:53:37 9 See also



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The United States Merchant Marine refers to either United States civilian mariners, or to U.S. civilian and federally owned merchant vessels. Both the civilian mariners and the merchant vessels are managed by a combination of the government and private sectors, and engage in commerce or transportation of goods and services in and out of the navigable waters of the United States. The Merchant Marine primarily transports cargo and passengers during peacetime; in times of war, the Merchant Marine can be an auxiliary to the United States Navy, and can be called upon to deliver military personnel and materiel for the military. Merchant Marine officers may also be commissioned as military officers by the Department of Defense. This is commonly achieved by commissioning unlimited tonnage Merchant Marine officers as Strategic Sealift Officers in the Naval Reserves.Merchant mariners move cargo and passengers between nations and within the United States, and operate and maintain deep-sea merchant ships, tugboats, towboats, ferries, dredges, excursion vessels, charter boats and other waterborne craft on the oceans, the Great Lakes, rivers, canals, harbors, and other waterways.As of October 1, 2018, the United States merchant fleet had 181 privately owned, oceangoing, self-propelled vessels of 1,000 gross register tons and above that carry cargo from port to port. Nearly 800 American-owned ships are flagged in other nations.The federal government maintains fleets of merchant ships via organizations such as Military Sealift Command (part of the US Navy) and the National Defense Reserve Fleet, which is managed by the United States Maritime Administration. In 2004, the federal government employed approximately 5% of all American water transportation workers.In the 19th and 20th centuries, various laws fundamentally changed the course of American merchant shipping. These laws put an end to common practices such as flogging and shanghaiing, and increased shipboard safety and living standards. The United States Merchant Marine is also governed by more than 25 (as of February 17, 2017) international conventions to promote safety and prevent pollution.P.L. 95–202, approved November 23, 1977, granted veteran status to Women Airforce Service Pilots and "any person in any other similarly situated group" with jurisdiction for determination given to the Secretary of Defense who delegated that determination to the Secretary of the Air Force. Although the Merchant Marine suffered a per capita casualty rate greater than those of the US Armed Forces, merchant mariners who served in World W ...