Army veteran tasked with getting Navy shipbuilder back in shape

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Army veteran tasked with getting Navy shipbuilder back in shape
By David Sharp, The Associated Press
 Dec 27, 09:42 PM
Charles F. Krugh, president of Bath Iron Works, poses at the shipyard Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022, in Bath, Maine.
Charles F. Krugh, president of Bath Iron Works, poses at the shipyard Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022, in Bath, Maine. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP)

BATH, Maine — Making the switch from building corporate jets to building Navy warships has been reinvigorating for a soldier-turned-business executive who’s leading Navy shipbuilder Bath Iron Works.

Charles “Chuck” Krugh said he wasted no time in getting his hands dirty, meeting daily with workers on the ships’ “deck plates.”

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