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By CAPT Roy Love, USN
I can’t for the life of me understand why the Navy is not getting sufficient applicants for Navy ROTC scholarships. Each year, hundreds of scholarships go unutilized, while people struggle to pay for their college education and rack up thousands of dollars in loans.
As a minority, a child of immigrants, and an Afro Latino, I understand what it is like for parents to worry about how to get their children to college. My parents certainly couldn’t afford to send four of us to College at the same time. The enlisted force in the US Navy is representative of our society, but our Officer force lags significantly in minority representation. We need role models and leaders that represent our society. Our Sailors need to be able to look up and see leaders that look like them. We simply do not have enough African American, Latino, and female Officers right now. The impact you can make on your community cannot be understated. We need you, young men and women, to come
Statistics Finland
Vessels in the regular merchant fleet numbered 680 in November
2020
In November 2020, the size of the Finnish
merchant fleet was 1,240 vessels. The regular merchant fleet
included 680 vessels and the number of small vessels was 285. The
number of barges and other engineless vessels was 275 in total. The
Register of Merchant Vessels, in which vessels operating mainly in
foreign traffic can be entered, contained a total of 113 vessels in
November 2020. The gross tonnage of the entire registered merchant
fleet was 1,862,434. The share of gross tonnage of the regular
merchant fleet was 1,728,934 and the share of vessels entered in
the Register of Merchant Vessels 1,564,966.