Posted on 04/19/2016 9:14:35 AM PDT by RitchieAprile
ROTON For the first time in a generation, Electric Boat is hiring thousands of workers as military strategy again turns to submarines to project U.S. sea power.
As many as 850 high-skilled, well-paid manufacturing and other jobs are being filled this year and nearly 4,000 in the next 15 years, establishing a workforce of 18,000 at the submarine manufacturer's sites in Groton and Quonset Point, R.I.
About 4,000 workers have been hired since 2012 as Electric Boat builds two submarines a year, a coveted expansion of the fleet that was eclipsed by shifting military policies at the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the drive against terrorism.
Finding and recruiting workers has stirred a regional network of community colleges, vocational schools and training and recruitment centers coordinating efforts for job training and curriculum development to match applicants with jobs at Electric Boat and small manufacturers.
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Hopefully the Navy learned something from that USS Miami incident.
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.
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.
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