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	President Delivers Commencement Address at the United States Merchant Marine Academy
		In times of war, the Merchant Marine is the lifeline of our troops overseas, carrying critical supplies, equipment, and personnel.
		America and Europe are also united on one of the most difficult challenges facing the world today, the behavior of the regime in Iran.
		Here in the United States, Iranian Americans have used their freedom to advance in society and make tremendous contributions in areas from business to medicine, to academics.
	www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2006/06/20060619-1.html (3623 words)

	United States Merchant Marine Academy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is charged with training officers for the United States Merchant Marine, branches of the military, or the transportation industry.
		The Academy's national value was again recognized as it accelerated graduating classes during the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, and for its involvement in such programs as training officers of the first U.S. nuclear powered merchant ship, the NS Savannah.
		The Merchant Marine Distinguished Service Medal is the highest award which can be bestowed upon members of the United States Merchant Marine and is the service’s equivalent of the Medal of Honor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Merchant_Marine_Academy (2287 words)

	United States Merchant Marine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United States Merchant Marine is a fleet of ships that is used to transport both imports and exports during peace time and serves as an auxiliary to the United States Navy during times of war, delivering both troops and supplies.
		Graduates of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy are commissioned into the USNR by default if they do not choose to be commissioned in another service of the armed forces.
		It is becoming increasingly difficult for unlicensed mariners to become hawsepipers and earn their merchant marine license due to increased requirements for formal training.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Merchant_Marine (1354 words)

	United States Merchant Marine Academy - College Closeup
		The United States Merchant Marine Academy is a four-year, tuition-free federal service academy founded in 1943 to educate and train merchant marine officers, officers on active duty in the armed forces, and leaders in the maritime and intermodal transportation industry.
		The Academy is one of the world’s foremost institutions in the field of maritime education and is operated under the Maritime Administration of the Department of Transportation.
		A graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy receives a Bachelor of Science degree, a merchant marine license as a third mate or third assistant engineer, and a commission as an ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve.
	www.petersons.com /ugchannel/code/idd.asp?orderLineNum=544296-2&inunId=9070&typeVC=INSTVC&sponsor= (1289 words)

	President Bush Delivers Commencement Address at the United States Merchant Marine Academy
		In times of war, the Merchant Marine is the lifeline of our troops overseas, carrying critical supplies, equipment, and personnel.
		Here in the United States, Iranian Americans have used their freedom to advance in society and make tremendous contributions in areas from business to medicine, to academics.
		His platoon sergeant said, "I didn't know what the hell a Merchant Marine graduate was doing here in the 73rd Engineering Company." The sergeant quickly changed his mind when he saw Lieutenant Seesan in action, taking care of his men as they patrolled the most dangerous roads in and around Mosul.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/wh/rem/68118.htm (3684 words)

	United States Merchant Marine Academy — Infoplease.com
		U.S. Merchant Marine Academy - U.S. Merchant Marine Academy The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, situated at Kings Point, N.Y., was...
		United States: college women's basketball player takes a stand against the war.
		Power brokers: marine: according to commercial insurance buyers, this 'Marine' corps of the brokerage industry is always faithful.......
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0850093.html (339 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Service Obligation Reporting Requirements for United States Merchant Marine Academy and State ...
		SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background The USMMA and state maritime schools require a midshipman/cadet who is a U.S. citizen and who enters the USMMA or a state maritime school in the student incentive payment (SIP) program after April 1, 1982 to sign a service obligation contract which obligates the midshipman/cadet to certain post graduate employment.
		Prior regulations required an employment reporting date of July 1 for all USMMA and state maritime school SIP graduates irrespective of whether the graduation date was in June or deferred.
		This final rule will allow a USMMA or state maritime school SIP graduate to submit his or her employment report 13 months following his or her graduation and each succeeding 12 months for a total of five consecutive years for USMMA graduates and for a total of three years for state maritime school SIP graduates.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2001/July/Day-11/i17217.htm (1317 words)

	USMMA Mariners - Latest News
		SOFTBALL 3/19/2006 USMMA 6 @ Shenandoah University 8
		Aug 29, 2006 - Lawrenceville, NJ — The coaches of the Skyline voted the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy women’s volleyball team second in the Skyline Conference, according to the conference’s pre season coaches’ poll released on Aug. 29.
		Aug 29, 2006 - Lawrenceville, NJ — The coaches of the Skyline voted the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy men’s soccer team second in the Skyline Conference, according to the conference’s pre season coaches' poll released on Aug. 29.
	www.usmmasports.com (737 words)

	US Merchant Marine Prep Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y.; for the training of merchant marine officers; established 1936, opened 1943.
		NMMI serves as preparatory school for the United States Merchant Marine Academy.
		The Merchant Marine Academy advisor and liaison is assigned to help each prep complete the program successfully and eventually get accepted to the Academy.
	nmmi.cc.nm.us /admissions/AcademyPreps/merchmarine/merchantmarine.htm (174 words)

	History of the U.S. Merchant Marine Cadet Corps
		The U.S. Merchant Marine Cadet Corps was officially founded March 15, 1938 under the auspices of the U.S. Maritime Commission, chaired by Joseph P. Kennedy (father of President John F. Kennedy), a position taken over by Admiral Emory Scott Land.
		The Academy planned to offer a full 4 year undergraduate program which included sea training, but during wartime the course was condensed to 8 weeks of basic training, at least 6 months sea duty on a merchant ship, and 9 months of advanced training at the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, NY.
		Mariners, including Cadets, were on the front lines the moment their ships left U.S. ports, subject to attack by submarines, surface raiders, mines, bombers, kamikaze, and land-based artillery.
	www.usmm.org /cadetcorps.html (2551 words)

	U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Kings Point regimental flag is blue with the Academy badge on the center surrounded by two rings of chain, with the name of the institution inscribed in an arc above the badge and the location beneath it in gold letters.
		The motto, "Acta non verba," translates as "Deeds, not words." The flag of the Regiment of Midshipmen is a distinctly lighter shade of blue than the Merchant Marine flag with which it is carried.
		The Merchant Marine Academy battle standard commemorates the sacrifices of Kings Point cadet-midshipmen during World War II, when 142 of them gave their lives while serving, prior to graduation, as junior officers aboard U.S. merchant vessels supplying and supporting the war effort.
	mysite.verizon.net /vzeohzt4/Seaflags/merchant/mma.html (207 words)

	United States Merchant Marine Academy
		The American Merchant Museum serves as a repository for the USMMA's extensive and valuable collection of marine art, ship models and nautical artifacts.
		The Museum's mission is to educate and inform visitors about the American merchant marine in a learning center for the regiment and public at large, to promote public interest in and understanding of our nation's merchant marine and to collect, preserve and exhibit historic items that represent our nation's rich seafaring heritage.
		The Museum employs imaginative exhibitions and displays to illustrate what the American merchant marine is and who its leaders are.
	www.usmma.edu /about/Museum/default.htm (95 words)

	College Profiles - United States Merchant Marine Academy
		The museum's focus is the merchant marine throughout history.
		The academic curriculum at the Academy is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and provides each midshipman with the broad education required of a bachelor of science degree, with the specialized training for licensing as a merchant marine officer, and with the military knowledge for commissioning in the U.S. Naval Reserve.
		In addition to the NCAA, the Academy is also affiliated with the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), the Freedom Football Conference, the Skyline Athletic Conference, the Hudson Valley Lacrosse League, the Eastern Water Polo Association, and the Metropolitan Conference, which holds championships in swimming, track and field, men's volleyball, and wrestling.
	www.collegeprofiles.com /merchantmarine.html (893 words)

	United States Merchant Marine Academy
		The Academy educates professional deck and engineering officers for the U.S. merchant marine, the armed forces, and the intermodal transportation system.
		Graduates of the Academy are committed to a five-year maritime service obligation (and a concurrent eight-year armed forces reserve commitment), and a requirement to obtain a merchant marine officer's license on or before graduation and to maintain the license for at least six years.
		The service obligation may be satisfied in the merchant marine as an officer aboard U.S. merchant ships, or in shoreside maritime or intermodal transportation industry positions on an exception basis, if employment at sea is not obtainable.
	www.marad.dot.gov /Offices/MMA-5100.html (328 words)

	Merchant Marine Distinguished Service Medal Awarded to U.S. Merchant Marine Cadets
		Though she continued to settle until her decks were awash, they fought her through until dusk that day brought them under the protection of the hard fighting air force out of Malta.
		Within a few minutes the volunteers had accomplished their mission and their ship was able to proceed to a safe distance from the burning vessels which soon disintegrated with a terrific explosion.
		Zito's heroism in thus saving the life of one of his shipmates at great risk to his own is in keeping with the finest traditions of the United States Merchant Marine.
	www.usmm.org /ccdsm.html (2012 words)

	merchant marine academy -- merchant marine academy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Merchant Marine Academy Kings Point, NY Phone: 516 773 5515 TTY: Statement of Purpose: The museum is devoted entirely to tell the importance to the nation of a Merchant Marine in both peace and war...
		Merchant Marine In the Great Lakes area, the Great Lakes Maritime Academy (part of Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City, MI) is the only facility authorized by the federal government to...
		Merchant Marine Academy The Annual All U.S. Service Academies Ball is attended by midshipmen and cadets (and their families and friends) from: U.S. Military Academy at West Point, U.S. Naval Academy...
	www.dracademy.com /merchantmarineacademy (3053 words)

	United States Merchant Marine Academy - MSN Encarta
		United States Merchant Marine Academy - MSN Encarta
		The stereotypical USMMA student 'is a conservative white male, often—but not always—from a military background.' Women and students of color are in the minority at USMMA.
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	encarta.msn.com /colleges_701830323/United_States_Merchant_Marine_Academy.html (81 words)

	LinuxElectrons - The United States Merchant Marine Academy Wins The 2004 Cyber Defense Exercise
		Fort Meade – The United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) took top honors recently over each of the five U.S. service academies in the Cyber Defense Exercise (CDX), a one-of-a-kind training tool designed to prepare these students to protect and defend the nation's critical information systems.
		CDX, born of a joint effort between the National Security Agency (NSA) and the United States Military Academy at West Point, pits a team of cadets from each academy against NSA's security experts.
		USMMA will be presented with the NSA Information Assurance Director's Trophy during graduation week.
	www.linuxelectrons.com /article.php?story=20040510194953759&mode=print (349 words)

	UNITED STATES MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY COMMENCEMENT
		From the day that I was sworn in as the Secretary of Transportation, the midshipmen at the United States Merchant Marine Academy have been a continuous source of pride and inspiration to me, as I know they are to the parents, family, and friends who provide support and encouragement.
		And again, as our Nation mobilized to fight terrorism at its source, merchant mariners were called upon to transport ammunition and other vital supplies to our troops.
		We know those mariners today as members of the “Greatest Generation.” And now, the torch that they once carried so proudly is being passed into your hands.
	www.dot.gov /affairs/minetasp062104.htm (1258 words)

	UNITED STATES MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY COMMENCEMENT
		Admiral Stewart; Counsel General Garcia du Froshow; flag officers and distinguished guests; leadership and supporters of the Academy; parents, family and friends; ladies and gentlemen.
		Merchant Mariners at the helms of commercial vessels all over the harbor helped to evacuate as many as a million people in just a few hours time — and without a single injury.
		You served in the finest traditions of the Merchant Marine, and of this great institution.
	www.dot.gov /affairs/061702spb.htm (783 words)

	us merchant marine academy and us merchant marine academy resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The US Merchant Marine Academy is a national service academy with its primaryfocus to educate and train young men and women for the United States Merchant.
		At the conclusion of the program, you will be examined by the US Coast Guard us merchant marine academy.
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	www.designsweb.info /us+merchant+marine+academy.html (357 words)

	United States Merchant Marine Academy Student Insurance Resource
		United States Merchant Marine Academy Student Insurance Resource
		Insurance for Students of United States Merchant Marine Academy:
		Health Insurance for Students of United States Merchant Marine Academy:
	www.studentshealthinsurance.com /schools/United-States-Merchant-Marine-Academy.html (241 words)

	United States Merchant Marine Academy
		The USMMA GMATS team reinvented a small, limited continuing education program by leveraging the existing federal investment in USMMA’s well-respected undergraduate program.
		Today, the USMMA GMATS program offers the most extensive maritime and transportation professional education program in the United States.
		It is notable that in the early ‘90’s the NPR reviewed the value of USMMA to the taxpayer and considered closure of the Academy.
	gmats.usmma.edu /info/gmats/hammeraward.aspx (260 words)

	Remarks by President Bush In Commencement Address at the United States Merchant Marine Academy
		(Laughter and applause.) Life at this Academy is demanding -- and it is meant to be.
		The Academy has made you strong and instilled respect for the Kings Point motto -- Acta Non Verba -- "Deeds, Not Words." "Deeds, Not Words" was the hallmark of this Academy in World War II.
		(Applause.) America and Europe are also united on one of the most difficult challenges facing the world today, the behavior of the regime in Iran.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-19-2006/0004383098&EDATE= (3658 words)

	Navy History - Naval Historical Foundation - Navy History Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He is a historian in American maritime history and the U.S. merchant marine in the 20th century.
		A retired Marine Corps Colonel with experience in armor and the Judge Advocate General program with two tours in Vietnam, Dr. Solis has taught at the London School of Economics and the U.S. Military Academy.
		Captain W. West, USCG (Ret.) graduated from the United States Merchant Marine Aca demy in 1944 and went on to have a distinguished career with the United States Coast Guard.
	www.navyhistory.org /programs_speakers.html (6503 words)

	United States Merchant Marine Academy
		This course provides the individual with a thorough working knowledge of liquefied tankship operations and enables them to conduct safe, pollution free cargo operations.
		This intensive five-day Maritime Anti Terrorism and Crisis Management course will provide participants with a critical analysis of the marine transportation system and the joint private sector and public sector anti terrorism...
		This two week course is designed for sailors that are preparing for advancement.
	gmats.usmma.edu (180 words)

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