The Service has since been largely dissolved and/or absorbed into other federal departments, but persists as an auxiliary (e.g., consider the appointment of United States Merchant Marine Academy superintendent Joseph D. Stewart as a Vice Admiral in the USMS).
The Service has since been largely dissolved and/or absorbed into other federal departments, but persists as an auxiliary. Officers in charge of the several Maritime Academies are frequently commissioned in the USMS (e.g., consider the appointment of United States Merchant Marine Academy superintendent Joseph D. Stewart as a Vice Admiral in the USMS).