I know many of the people working at PH and they really are skilled, hard working folks. Comments about them being distracted by iPhones, unmotivated and bad a what they do are grossly misguided and most likely come from highly opinionated individuals who didn't even read the article.

The problems laid out in the story are true. A.) PH does by virtue of it's location garner more than it's fair share of emergency work which causes displacement all through out the maintenance schedule. B.) The facilities are antiquated and in many cases need to be torn down and rebuilt to adequately service vessels. Can't really blame the PH workers for those problems.

Hopefully with a bigger DoD budget we'll get some of these things done but then again the money hardly goes to where it's needed most.