Military Sealift Command

Academy/Maritime School Graduates

Questions always arise when considering how to best utilize academic training to pursue a rewarding and successful seagoing career:

• Where can seatime and experience be quickly gained towards license upgrades?
• Employee benefits – what is the scope of possible benefits and how, over the course of a career, do benefits effect employee compensation?
• What are the steps in any hiring process?
• What roles do maritime unions play?

Because Military Sealift Command has been a mainstay employer of American merchant mariners for nearly half a century general questions about MSC can be answered by academy career counselors.  Additional questions can be answered by one of MSC’s recruiters.  Contact a recruiter.

Where can seatime and experience be quickly gained towards license upgrades?

Military Sealift Command’s global fleet of more than forty ships crewed by civil service mariners run the gamut of ship types:  salvage and rescue ships, underway replenishment oilers, ammunition and hospital ships, futuristic looking joint high speed vessels…to name but a few.  These ships offer a diverse array of power plants: diesel, gas turbine and steam; some supported by state of the art high voltage and diesel-electric methods of propulsion.

Different platforms, different power plants and propulsion systems, MSC civil service mariner crewed ships operate around the globe supporting a wide array of diverse missions.  With four month shipboard assignments it is conceivable a mariner, in the space of twelve months, could be working aboard an oiler replenishing an aircraft carrier off the Singapore coast, sail aboard a hospital ship engaged in a humanitarian mission in the Caribbean, and supporting Navy salvage operations in the Mediterranean.

Nothing in commercial industry can rival the opportunities provided MSC’s civil service mariners to gain experience and seatime towards advancing their merchant mariner’s credentials.