| "I believe the DD214 will show your sea time."
It will not. Please go to the USCG licensing site and get the real story from the people you must submit the application to. They have all the correct information and you can download all the forms you need.
"This license will take you places that a USCG license will not ..."
The MCA yacht license scheme is a very limited license and is not recognized anywhere else for anything other than yachting service. Don't waste your time. Use the sea time you have toward a real license that is "portable" and recognized worldwide. The fact that you can get an MCA yachtmaster ticket with less than 2 months sea time should tell you something about how much it is worth. Consider that it takes 540 days to get a USCG AB ticket, what does that say about an MCA master?
If you want a maritime career, get the best ticket your seatime will allow and use that to get a job with MSC or even a tugboat company, anything to get training and experience toward a legitimate license that will serve you the rest of your career. That license can be used on yachts as well. You will gain real seatime faster and have your training paid for. In a few short years you will hold a license that the MCA crowd can't even dream about. You will replace those unqualified people when the new and larger boats come into the industry.
Don't fall for the lure of a quickie license that should be printed on the back of a Cheerios box.
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