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US Merchant Marine Academy

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Charles Fields, a student at the US Merchant Marine Academy, 1970. 

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Government suspends training at sea program after college student says she and others were raped

The federal government's academy for merchant mariners is halting a key training program that sends students thousands of miles away from campus on commercial ships after a 19-year-old student was allegedly raped at sea.

The decision by the Department of Transportation, which oversees the US Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA), came just weeks before students were set to embark on their "Sea Year" voyage, in which students are typically sent in pairs to work alongside older, predominantly male crew members.In a letter to students notifying them that the program has been temporarily suspended, school and transportation officials said the academy and the maritime industry were confronting a "challenging time" and that the decision to halt the program was "one of the most difficult we have faced."

Just days earlier, congressional lawmakers expressed concern that students at the academy were being put in danger while participating in the Sea Year program.

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Elliot See (first row, third from left) as a member of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy rifle team in 1949. He was made co-captain in late 1948 and awarded the Captain Tomb Trophy for rifle and pistol marksmanship.

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this is the video that perfectly describes finals week at my boat-themed military school and i just really feel the need to share it with you all

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