PositivegCaptainMichael Fabey’s new book – Heavy Metal: The Hard Days and Nights of the Shipyard Workers Who Build America’s – explores Huntington Ingalls Industries $HII and its largest shipyard, Newport News Shipbuilding...The book takes a hard unvarnished look at the Navy and the challenges civilian shipbuilders faced while building the world’s newest and most lethal ship, America’s Ford-class supercarriers...Heavy Metal demonstrates how difficult it is to run an industrial business in America, especially one that relies on a single customer and especially when that customer is the US Navy, which likes expensive, untested technology and floods shipyards with strange requests and lots of bureaucratic requirements...Overall, while it’s difficult to keep track of all the people mentioned in this book and Fabey fails to include HII’s fight with Wall Street, it’s a solid read...It’s also an important read...Fabey is correct in noting that public awareness of the shipyard is critical for Congressional support and his book does a great job shining a light on this underreported, yet critically important to maritime security and the commerce, segment of our industry.
