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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2018
Learning the ropes of seamanship at Tongue Point
A unique part
of Job Corps
By JULE GILFILLAN
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Securing a vessel to a dock
is hard, physical work. But
Nadiyah Taylor handles every-
thing without hesitation —
from the cold drizzle coating
the ship’s deck to her trainer’s
insistent instructions: “Take in
more slack. Don’t take it all the
way off the cleat, just give it
one half-turn.”
We met Taylor in Septem-
ber of 2016 aboard the training
vessel Ironwood, a World War
II-era buoy tender used in the
Tongue Point Job Corps sea-
manship program. She’d been
in the Astoria-based course for
about seven months at the time.
“It’s hard because I’ve
never been this far away from
home,” the Virginia native
said. “But since everybody
knows I’m trying to accom-
plish something great here, it
gets easier.”
Taylor is one of 120 mer-
chant mariner students hop-
ing her hard work in Oregon’s
dampest corner will pay off in
a better future.
The Job Corps was started
in 1964 under the administra-
tion of President Lyndon John-
son as a central part of his “War
on Poverty.” It was designed to
be a safe, residential job-train-
ing program modeled after the
Depression-era Civilian Con-
servation Corps to train peo-
ple between the ages of 16
and 24 for work in a variety of
industries, all at no cost to the
student.
Jule Gilfillan/Oregon Public Broadcasting
Seamanship cadet Nadiyah Taylor on her graduation day.
When we caught up with
her again in December 2017,
Taylor was ready to head back
to Virginia with her newly
minted “AB” (Able Seaman)
and “QMED” (Qualified Mem-
ber of the Engine Department)
credentials in-hand.
“It gets you ready for the
real world,” Taylor said of the
program.
Actually, Taylor has been
dealing with the “real world”
since long before she joined
Job Corps.
In 2005, Taylor’s 17-year-
old brother Demario Joyner
was shot and killed by police
outside a Virginia Beach club
where Taylor and her friends
were attending a teen event.
She was 12 years old. By the
time Taylor was 18, she was the
mother of two young daugh-
ters and at 23, she was work-
ing three jobs to earn enough to
raise them.
At 24, Taylor became the
seamanship program’s first
African-American woman to
graduate with both her AB and
QMED credentials. On gradu-
ation day, she reflected on her
brother Demario.
“He’d be excited. I’m
kind of living his dream, you
know,” she said, recalling
how her brother was planning
to become a marine seaman
before he was killed. “It’s like
he’s here.”
“The young men and
women that come here, they
don’t have a lot of opportuni-
ties,” says Len Tumbarello, a
retired Coast Guard captain
and director of the seamanship
program.
“They’ve had some tough
things happen in their life.
They need some financial help
and knowing that they get three
meals, a roof over their head,
training, a place to go Mon-
day through Sunday is a good
thing.”
More than half of seaman-
ship students come from under-
served communities and are
economically challenged. Stu-
dents can earn their high school
diplomas or GEDs while in the
program.
Some also go on to the
Marine and Environmental
Research and Training Center
program at Clatsop Commu-
nity College for advanced mar-
itime courses, Tumbarello said.
“On average, our students
have the opportunity to make
$50,000 to $70,000 a year —
right out of the gate — entry
level.”
According to Tumbarello,
about 95 percent of seaman-
ship students complete the rig-
orous 18- to 24-month course
to earn the Merchant Mariners
credentials, and 92 percent
of those land a job within six
months of graduation.
Since the maritime industry
is the single-largest importer
and exporter of goods in the
U.S. by weight, Tumbarello is
bullish on the industry’s ability
to supply good jobs long into
the future.
Two months after graduat-
ing, Nadiyah Taylor landed a
six-weeks-on, three-weeks-off
job as a deckhand working on
a cruise vessel plying the Mis-
sissippi River system.
Four months after starting
that job, she was promoted to
bosun, a supervisory position
where she oversees a crew of
six. Taylor credits the skills she
developed being away from
home in Job Corps for earning
that promotion.
“I learned how to han-
dle people from various back-
grounds and a lot of different
situations that arise,” she said.
Taylor is now studying for
her mate’s license.
If she passes, the credential
will open the door for another
promotion and more money.
“My goal was to get one
job where I could take care of
my kids financially and have
time off to be with them. It’s
a great start and I make more
money than a lot of other peo-
ple I went to school with,” she
confides with a laugh.
Now almost one year after
graduation, Taylor’s job has
given her the steadiness and
security to dream.
“I’d like to have my
own 24-hour day care busi-
ness someday,” says the sin-
gle mom. “I love kids. But for
now, as long as I keep my cre-
dentials up to date, there will
always be work.”
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