U.S. Navy ships and submarines sit moored at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington

Lt Col Charlie Brown It Really is Challenging and You Might be able to Learn a Little Nautical History in the Process. One of the Cool things of Making It My "Home Port" for 6 Years.

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - I was only there for 1 1/2 years, while aboard CGN-41. The Navy thought it would be cheaper, when the NIMITZ was scheduled for an 9 month yard period, to bring all the workers to North Island instead of sending the ship north. As a CTRC, I was responsible for the 2nd Shift (15-23hr) Fire Watch team, made up of strictly OPS Dept. Sailors. An ACC was responsible for the 1st Shift (07-15hr). I had a designated Fire Marshall that approved all hot work chits during our shift.
The reason I mention this amount of work, the shipyard brought down 80 welders (people) from Bremerton to work on the NIMITZ during this specific yard period. They put those guys/gals up in hotels and paid their per diem. . . . and that was supposedly cheaper than just moving the ship north for 9 months. I can only imagine how many total workers were brought down from Bremerton to work on the NIMITZ at that time.