The Merchant Marine has played a critical role in every major American military conflict since the Revolution. Never did it play a greater role than in World War II, and a glance back at what ...

USMMA received 1,700 applications this year, but only accepted 280 appointees. Despite the odds, two friends from the Coast ...

A cargo ship was sailing across the Atlantic Ocean when the captain summoned two young US Merchant Marine Academy cadets to his room and gave them each a drink. Shortly thereafter, the students ...

A former electrician on an international shipping vessel gave up his mariner's license last week after facing administrative charges from the Coast Guard that he sexually harassed a teenage U.S ...

Seafaring service members may soon be able to transition to the U.S. Merchant Marine with less hassle and at less cost than currently required under an executive order signed Monday by President ...

Meet the merchant-marine lobby, which not only exists but which is doing its utmost to capitalize on the confluence of two events: the negotiation this week of the much-delayed five-year farm bill ...

Seventy-seven years following the conclusion of World War II, Mount Pleasant resident John Nelson finally received recognition for his contributions to the war effort. Nelson, 97, received the ...

This is the job not of the U.S. Navy but the U.S. Merchant Marine. Victory in any future global conflict will belong to the nation with the logistical chops to take the fight abroad.

(CNN) — In a high-profile case that rocked the commercial shipping industry, a sailor accused of raping a student from the US Merchant Marine Academy has agreed to surrender his credential to ...

Elsie E. Dominguez, a graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, was the 1st Assistant Engineer aboard the USNS Carson City when she said she was raped by the vessel’s captain.