THE CURRENT DENIALS OF SUPPORT IGNORE THE HISTORY TO PROTECT

The first national pension law, that of August 26, 1776, promised one-half pay for life or during disability to every officer, soldier, or sailor who lost a limb in any engagement or was so disabled in the service as to be rendered incapable of earning a livelihood. 

John Adams, second President of the United States, signed into law on July 16, 1798 the Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen, which established what is now the Public Health Service. Twenty cents was deducted from the monthly wage of each merchant seaman to build or rent hospitals and pay for the medical care provided.

An act in addition to “An act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen.” ... Approved- March 2, 1799 John Adams, President of the United States.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy shall be, and he hereby is authorized and directed to deduct, after the first day of September next, from the pay thereafter to become due, of the officers, seamen and marines of the Navy of the United States, at the rate of twenty cents per month, for every such officer, seaman and marine, and to pay the same quarter-annually to the Secretary of the Treasury, to be applied to the same purposes, as the money collected by virtue of the above mentioned act is appropriated.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the officers, seamen and marines of the Navy of the United States, shall be entitled to receive the same benefits and advantages, as by the act above mentioned are provided for the relief of the sick and disabled seamen of the merchant vessels of the United States.

Castle Island in Boston Harbor was chosen as the temporary site for the first marine hospital. Dr. Thomas Welsh, a Harvard College graduate (1772) and participant in the Revolutionary War battles of both Lexington and Bunker Hill, was appointed as the physician in charge in 1799.  c. 1800

THE DENIALS NEVER MENTION THE DANGERS OF A SEAMAN

HERE IS THE JOB DESCRIPTION-THIS IS IGNORED IN ALL GOVERNMENT DENIALS WHICH LEAVES THE UNEDUCATED CONFUSED AS TO THE CAUSE OF THE MEDICAL CONDITIONS 

HERE IS THE SHIP EVALUATION AS YOU ARE SEAMAN