All ship’s systems are vitally important to the success of the Navy mission, so whom does the captain call when a gas turbine stops turning? What happens when a diesel engine aboard ship breaks down? Until recently, Navy tenders handled most shipboard maintenance when the ships returned to homeport. Many tenders have been selected for decommissioning requiring the Navy to find new solutions to the age-old problem of ship maintenance and a key element is the Navy Afloat Maintenance Training Strategy (NAMTS) program. "What drove this program is tender decommissioning," says Chief Machinist Mate Kevin Krepps, command coordinator for Job Qualification Requirements at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility.
