Ukraine
I used to have to fix needle guns for 'hull technicians,' we call them deck seamen.
A needle gun is a compressed air thing used to remove rust, before repainting the hull. On a ship the size of the Eisenhower I would think 50 of them could paint and then repaint about the time their first coat of paint was done for. 50 painting the hull from the inside all the time. A never ending job, never quite completed.
Nor are the needle guns ever all ready to go at the same time. I was doing pretty good to keep a dozen out of the 24 going at any one time. PARTS! Never enough parts.
I used to have to fix needle guns for 'hull technicians,' we call them deck seamen.
A needle gun is a compressed air thing used to remove rust, before repainting the hull. On a ship the size of the Eisenhower I would think 50 of them could paint and then repaint about the time their first coat of paint was done for. 50 painting the hull from the inside all the time. A never ending job, never quite completed.
Nor are the needle guns ever all ready to go at the same time. I was doing pretty good to keep a dozen out of the 24 going at any one time. PARTS! Never enough parts.