Month: January 2017

That’s the title of this guest column in The Virginian-Pilot by Lt. Gen. Kenneth Wykle (US Army, retired), the former deputy commander in chief of […]

Captain R.J. Klein, the Immediate Past President of the Council of American Master Mariners, has an article in Forbes that offers a concise analysis of […]

In our continuing effort to assist MARAD with its “new era of transparency,”  I put out a request the other day for MARAD or anyone […]

Soon-to-be-former Deputy Maritime Administrator Michael “Anchorman” Rodriguez told the midshipmen during the January 6, 2017 all-hands meeting (audio here) that they shouldn’t believe the rumors […]

Another alum who has been working behind the scenes came up with this interesting comparison of statements by Academy leadership about the timeline for restoring […]

In the January 6, 2017 all-hands meeting, Superintendent Helis assured the regiment of midshipmen and faculty that there was “a way ahead to restore training […]

Click on the link to be redirected to audio from today’s town hall brought to you by Maritime TV. Spoiler alert:  they didn’t answer our questions.

[updated to clarify the date of the town hall] For the January 17, 2017 town hall meeting, we thought it might save everyone a lot […]

Unfortunately, it is forced transparency, courtesy of KingsPointSentry.com — the blog that MARAD wants you to avoid As we reported here, MARAD engineered the language […]

In a January 10, 2017 meeting with the current regimental officers, Lt. McDade told them that they shouldn’t believe anything they read on KingsPointSentry.com. That […]

Here’s a clip from Elaine Chao’s confirmation hearing today. She said that the problems at Kings Point will be the first thing she addresses at […]

I will be posting more on the overall tenor of the all-hands meeting on Friday (audio links here), in particular about the pathetic lack of […]

As requested, we’ve uploaded audio of the all-hands meeting that was held on Friday at the Academy. Audio of Superintendent Helis’ presentation is here. Audio […]

I just received word that the interim dean sent an email to all department heads at the Academy stating that the LMI Report will be […]

[NOTE: Correction made to the status of the legislation relating to funding the academy and how that impacts reaccreditation. Substantive changes shown in red] On […]

I just captured this screenshot from the USMMA.edu main page. Note the juxtaposition:  A commercial ship; two female midshipmen obviously thrilled to be assigned to […]