I don’t get it, are they the military or are they not? Aren’t the ships privately owned? Can you not be a ship captain without going to the Merchant Marine Academy?
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It’s just the term for people who work on a nation’s merchant ships.
Because of the need for these same people to man military support and transport ships, the role of sea transport in wartime, and the cultural legacy of WW2 it takes on a very military character in the US.
But you can get your license with little ceremony from community college and go work on a more blue-collar kind of ship like a Great Lakes freighter or a tugboat or a domestic tanker or in offshore oil or wind industry and never give that stuff a thought.
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