Electric Boat To Hire Thousands As Military Strategy Shifts Back To Subs

Hartford Coiurant ^ | April 18, 2016 | Stephen Singer

[Charles Martel]

Dare we hope that these workers are screened for security purposes?

Hopefully the Navy learned something from that USS Miami incident.

[ABN 505]

My Brother worked the night shift there as a welder. He spent most of his time watching the grinding crew grind out the welds that had been done on the 1st shift so he could reweld them. The guys on 1st shift would get hammered at lunch and after lunch all the crap work was done. I worked there as an outside contractor and always got a kick at noon to see the horde waiting for the gates to open and they would run across the street to any of the dozens of watering holes and pound down as much booze as they could in 25 min. Of course afterword they were basically useless. That said I also was impressed by some of the dedicated guys there especially the guys in the Blacksmith shop who could make just about anything the engineers could dream up. Almost every thing on a sub has to be specially made with no room for error which is why they X-Ray every weld.

[sarge83]

Australia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Japan, South Korea and the United States Navy are fully cognizant of what is coming in the South China Sea and the Pacific and attempting to prepare. El-presidente’ and the puss cakes in Washington still think all is well. It is December 6, 1941 or September 10, 2001 in their eyes perpetually. They have money to steal, votes to buy and can’t be bothered with having a real foreign policy, only kowtowing to the International Chamber of Commerce that runs the country.

[Bull Snipe]

In the case of the 3 boats mentioned above, it is not reactor welds that are the problem. Elbows in the steam side provided to EB for construction of the subs appear to have had weld repairs done to them by the vendor without EBs or NavSeas knowledge. Looks like the vendor tried to repair defective fittings so they would be accepted by EB and NavSea.