[US Navy Vet]

I am retired US Navy with more hours in US Navy shipyard than I can count. EVERY time we pulled out to sea we spent more time UNF*CKING thing that the shipyard screwed up than testing things that they “fixed”. Senior people related to me similar stories from other shipyards. O and by they way I am a DoD contractor now.

[_Jim]

EVERY time we pulled out to sea we spent more time UNF*CKING thing that the shipyard screwed up

Would I be right in assuming this was done by union labor? In say, the north east?

[USNBandit]

Aircraft are no different. The one exception to both of these situations was my experience in Japanese shipyards, and aircraft depots. They work six days a week, their work was good, and the vessels and aircraft were in really good shape when they came out.