merchant marine

On a new episode of the Top Gun Retirement Show with Alan Kifer, Alan kicks off a very special Veteran's Day episode thanking the men and women who have served our great country. Kifer shares tips and strategies for folks from all six branches of our military services (Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, Army, Coast Guard and Merchant Marines), as well as past and present federal, state and local government employees, to help folks suceed at the business of retirement. Kifer offers five distinct steps folks can take today to secure the retirement folks want and deserve.

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1. "Tankers For the Pacific Fight: A Crisis in Capability," by Stephen M. Carmel, CIMSEC, January 23, 2023.

I sit with John Messner, author of, "A Scottish Blockade Runner In the American Civil War. Joannes Wyllie Of The Steamer Ad-Vance." We will hear the story of a real life Rhett Butler and reveal the "French Connection" type of conspiracy to supply the Confederacy!

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Ursula is so salty that her new born baby has a discharge from a tugboat. She is a walking recruitment poster for the U.S. Merchant Marine. A second generation Maine Maritime graduate, she details the differences between a normal college life and that of a maritime college life. We also talk about the squid people of Asia, wonder why fisherman enjoy flirting with getting run over by ships, and the Jones Act.


Smooth sailing.

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Join The Grey Beard and I for a conversation about what Coronavirus feels like, Jamaican beef patties, and people sailing on fake documents. Will human kind ever be extinguished or will we survive catastophe to live among the stars? Plus Game Stop and Pirates.....

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Who in the world is Meow Man? The Grey Beard and Jeff join me to discuss the origins of Meow man, wind powered ships, and mental health at sea. We take a look at seamans centers and churches and the services that they offer to mariners the world over. The Grey Beard offers us some insight into parenthood and what it is like to get prepared for it. For the first time ever, we have a bonafide fact checker, fact checking all of our nonsense on air. Jeff and The Grey Beard offer insight into why and how a person would join the U.S. Merchant Marine.

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Smooth sailing and folling winds.

Travis Golightly is a Dot com pioneer, radio DJ, train conductor, cop, air traffic controller, and U.S. Merchant Marine. He regales us with sea stories from his many amazing careers and meandering travels. Antarctica? Check! Greenland? Check! Diving in muddy lakes? Check! Being yelled at for not correctly vectoring aircraft? Check! Almost making a million dollars before age 21? Check! This guy has some stories. Oh, and lets not forget the crazy lady in the trailer park with the hemorrhoid blood....

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Smooth Sailing!

In this episode D.B. Cooper shares his thoughts on mortgages, Corona virus, and China. He gives us an in depth look at what it is like to attend the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and gives advice to anybody looking at attending a maritime college. What is it like working on a ship that is in the shipyard in China? D.B. Cooper explains. Also, growing up in Panama and moving around a lot in a military family. 

Don't forget that you can contact the show at theshipslogpodcast@gmail.com. Tell us what you think, any seafarers out there that you would like to hear interviewed? Ask you your questions too.

As always, be safe out there and may you never run out of coffee.

The Collected Works of Dr. Sal Mercogliano:

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2019/august/be-modern-maritime-power
 

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2020/january/suppose-there-was-war-and-merchant-marine-didnt-come
 

https://seahistory.org/wp-content/uploads/SH169_Feature_Jones_Act.pdf
 

https://seahistory.org/we-built-her-to-bring-them-over-there-the-cruiser-and-transport-force-in-the-great-war/
 

https://www.cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/vol26/tnm_26_407-424.pdf
 

https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/nhhc/research/publications/publication-508-pdf/NHHC4thArmDefense_final_508.pdf

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/05/14/op-ed-the-merchant-marine-americas-fourth-arm-of-defense/

https://gcaptain.com/turbo-activation-19-plus-a-sealift-surge-or-just-a-trickle/

https://gcaptain.com/why-the-united-states-needs-a-merchant-marine-a-historical-basis/

https://gcaptain.com/space-force-how-about-a-maritime-force/