Got a good phone call from the Coast Guard Today
08-15-2007, 07:29 PM
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So yea, I had this "medical waiver" on my merchant mariners license, had to send in a medical review, bloodwork all kinds of **** every year. I sent it in and I get this call back, "Hey scott this is Coast Guard Medical Officer such and such please call me back I would like to talk to you about your medical records".
Oh **** I think this ain't good at all. Call the dude back and he says, "Hey just wanted to let you know I am releasing the medical waiver on your license, you will no longer be required to submit a yearly review. We'll ask that you submit it every 5 years when your regular renewal comes up (which you have to do anyway)".
So that is pretty fuggin cool, I am pretty close to my sea time for my Masters, so thats really good news.
Oh **** I think this ain't good at all. Call the dude back and he says, "Hey just wanted to let you know I am releasing the medical waiver on your license, you will no longer be required to submit a yearly review. We'll ask that you submit it every 5 years when your regular renewal comes up (which you have to do anyway)".
So that is pretty fuggin cool, I am pretty close to my sea time for my Masters, so thats really good news.
08-15-2007, 08:32 PM
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Originally Posted by l8t apex' post='880379' date='Aug 15 2007, 09:21 PM
Well,
now you can go to a foreign port knowing your clean.......when you got there!
now you can go to a foreign port knowing your clean.......when you got there!
I'd say that's a fairly arguable statement
08-15-2007, 08:47 PM
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Originally Posted by l8t apex' post='880384' date='Aug 15 2007, 09:39 PM
Hey so as a civilian is there a pollywok/shellback thing?( Should you for some reason ever cross the equator)
Yes it has nothing to do with your level of service, it's been recognized/practiced long before the USCG came along.... It's been around since the 19th century and i have read some literature indicating it was around in the 1600's. There is a ceremony to be followed, which varies a bit, from nice to horrific. The ceremony is your "baptism" into King Neptune's Court. It was supposedly started by the British Royal Navy, but i don't know how accurate that is.
08-17-2007, 09:46 PM
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Originally Posted by MtnRacer' post='880435' date='Aug 16 2007, 02:14 PM
So does this license authorize you to carry extra seamen on your poop deck?
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Why you gotta be like that, yer makin me cry i try to tell you something personal and you turn it into a joke.
HA HA, I even had a hard time writing that one.