On Friday I was featured as a CG Blog Find on AN UNOFFICIAL COAST GUARD BLOG.  I haven’t featured this site myself on my blog, but they’ve been in my blogroll for a while.  If you haven’t visited there, definitely check it out.  It’s chock-full of great information about current Coast Guard news, information, and …

This past week I talked with Peter Mello over Skype for a feature on the Messing About In Ships podcast which he and Capt. John Konrad co-host.  It ended up being more than a half hour, and is included in full in the latest MAIS podcast episode! If you’re interested in checking it out, you …

This week’s Photo of the Week is a picture that I actually took *gasp* this week! It’s a photograph of an 87′ Coast Guard Cutter passing the Mass Maritime campus as it heads east through the Cape Cod Canal. Since I’m planning on going into the Coast Guard, I get pretty excited when I see …

Peter Mello over at Sea-Fever found a service that translates whatever ye type into scurvy pirate shout. It gunna also message your scurvy pirate message directly to twittArrr, PirateSpace, or send an e-mail. I can see myself usin’ this a lot, fer no reason at all. Avast!

Mass Maritime has a multi-layer chain of command, due to the co-existence of cadet and staff officers and leaders. I’ve created an overview of the chain of command below.