I am in the ship repair business. I won’t say that this isn’t about additional Navy construction, but I will tell you that the average age of our core employees is about 60 years old. I’m not kidding. We’ve speculated that all things being equal the U.S. maritime industry will be dead within 20 years. Young people are not replacing the old. We are already experiencing a severe knowledge gap due to our employees retiring or dying.
Not a whole lot better in aircraft maintenance. All of us Reagan years former military will be retiring soon.
Maybe Filipinos will.