<p>Just heard from our Mid that B Split grades for Sea Year are in. Proud to report our Mid made it through all of the projects!!!</p>
<p>Congrats to your Mid!</p>
<p>My Mid is happy to report the same information! Yeah!</p>
<p>Rumor says 25 of them are RFD...uh oh</p>
<p>RFD? Recommended for dismissal? 25 out of how many?</p>
<p>Just two....rest will have to remediate..</p>
<p>Just a random question that I was thinking about. When you're on the ship for your sea year do you wear your USMMA uniform, a uniform they supply or just street clothes? Just wondering.</p>
<p>Normally you just wear whatever work clothes are appropriate. For deckies it usually means a pair of jeans and a shirt or something similar. Engineers will wear a boiler suit (one piece work outfit). MSC ships will likely require a uniform. Some captains of ships will require deckies to wear a uniform in some instances. (I had one that made me wear it when arriving/departing ports).</p>
<p>hi, im new to this site and have an intrest in going to KP</p>
<p>what is the sea year project? and what would they have done wrong to be RFD?</p>
<p>To keep it simple:
During your sophmore year, you go out on ship for about 4 months, and there is a sea year project for that term.</p>
<p>during your junior year, you go out to sea again, but this time for about 8 months, and there is another sea year project that is much larger.</p>
<p>To be RFD's would mean they did not complete the project. </p>
<p>My DS's project was about 10" worth of paper when he was finished and everything was assembled. Not something to take lightly....</p>
<p>My S's steam propulsion project was over 100 pages plus more than 30 drawings. That was one of 8 projects that were required. Some of the other were quite a bit smaller but steam, diesel and naval architecture were very challenging.</p>
<p>oh!!! WOW! thanks!!!!</p>
<p>Also Alex, the projects are different for deck and engineering. The engineering portion has a lot more technical drawings than the deck project. My son just got off his first ship (engineer) and was completely done with his project a week before their last port. He worked on it 2-3 hours each night after he got off work, so you can see that it is a major undertaking.</p>
<p>I was told that the "deckies" also have to take a series of exams when they return, whereas, the engineers are done when they turn in their projects. This would require a lot of independent study on the part of the deck majors.</p>
<p>Has anyone's child been out to sea and seemed really unhappy? My son seems totally miserable sailing. Has anyone's first experience sailing been different from their second sailing?</p>
<p>Each experience is different. Ships seem to have a way of developing their own individual "personalities". This often comes from the top and a different captain can change the entire mood of the ship. Where they sail to can also be a big factor. Give him some encouragement.
his next experience can be vastly different.</p>
<p>what do the deck projects include?</p>
<p>and how are the tests for them?</p>
<p>KPMarine - Your comment about the mood of the ship is definitely on target. Son said ALL the crew are miserable, from the top down, and all told him not to make this a career. There recently has been a change of captain and he said this captain is cool and it seems the crew are a little less miserable with him on board. I did read once on here of one of the students who said his first time out was miserable, but his second time out was very different. I'm worried since he can't wait for sea duty to end, how is he going to do eight months out and five years back. Thanks for input.</p>
<p>Alex4--you are way to early in the process to worry about what is involved with a deck sea project. That's not until your 3rd class year. You have to get an appointment first, then make it through the plebe year :) Focus on getting an appointment, nomination and medical clearance from DoDMerb.</p>
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Ultimately, he has to ask himself if its the people that he was sailing with that were making him unhappy or the sea going part.. Ive had more than my share of difficult captains in 33 years in the merchant marine (starting with my very first 3rd mates job) and I have been to all the garden spots between Bum****, India and East Jesus.. If I didnt love the work I would have never even made it through the first month. Bad captains (and Chiefs), ships and runs are like dirty weather.. They will eventually change for the better, BUT they will also inevitably return.</p>
<p> [quote= KPMarineopsdad] his next experience can be vastly different.
Yeah, and the reality is it could go from bad to VASTLY worse.. so the bottom line is you better love what youre doing no matter where the ships going or who youre working for..</p>
<p>It sounds like cadets are used more as gopphers and gets the work no one wants to do. I guess all have to start at the bottom. Hopefully next sailing will be different experience.</p>