United States
In the United States Merchant Marine, in order to be occupied as a QMED a person has to have a Merchant Mariner's Document issued by the United States Coast Guard with a QMED certification. Because of international conventions and agreements, all QMEDs who sail internationally are similarly documented by their respective countries.
Applicants for QMED are required to pass a QMED General Knowledge Examination and at least one of the following rating exams:
- Fireman/Watertender
- Oiler
- Deck Engineer
- Junior Engineer
- Refrigeration Engineer
- Electrician
- Pumpman
Once the exam is passed, the results are valid towards an upgrade to QMED from Wiper for one year.
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“The real charm of the United States is that it is the only comic country ever heard of.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
“The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn’t need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder—in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)
“The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.”
—Grover Cleveland (1837–1908)
“Europe and the U.K. are yesterday’s world. Tomorrow is in the United States.”
—R.W. ‘Tiny’ Rowland (b. 1917)