What is the Difference between Merchant Navy and Defence Navy?
I can tell you more about this profession,,,But my personal experience might help you in deciding… Well, the first thing is about priority…When we just pass out of school we have many opportunities like appearing for NDA, joining merchant navy as a Deck officer,,, I had an opportunity of joining both the professions and I was wondering with the same question at that time.But, after careful thought I made a decision to join the merchant navy because on the other side I had to join as a Sailor and from there it becomes really tough for you to crack the ssb and then becoming a Naval Officer…Here I had a rank of 47 in IMU CET and I got admission into one of the institutes of The Shipping Corporation of India Ltd. So, my opinion here is that In Merchant Navy it takes a hell lot of patience and struggle to settle down and then earn a salary which you then think is worth it. The salary packages for merchant navy officers have no limits, But then yeah the life is really...