Kimo works across the street from the commissary where we do our grocery shoppping, so we see these ships under construction all the time. A couple of weeks before he got hired, I commented on these ships, that they literally loom like mountains above us; how we've seen them so often that we take them for granted. Most folks never get to see ships like this, and we reminisced about the opportunity we had to see a ship launching at this very site many years ago (The USS Sacagawea). Now Kimo works here! He is learning how to do robotic welding of the giant metal sheets needed to build the ships-quite challenging!
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| Kimo's new ventilated helmet-Go, Kimo! |














