In the Navy, I remember watching a pump that never gave any problems being torn down for an inspection, so the inspector could see what good shape our equipment was in. The bad thing is that the pump right beside it was constantly giving problems and actually needed to be repaired.
To make matters worse, this whole fiasco turned into 4 pump rebuilds. The guys rebuilding the pump torn down for inspection screwed up and broke a line off the casing, and didn't know it until it was back together and I was sent to inspect it, so they had to do it all over. Then they started on the problematic pump, and did the same thing going back together with it. All in all both pumps got torn down, and rebuilt twice, all over people being STUPID and/or not paying attention.
And don't even get me started on how they'd buy new coveralls for everybody so we'd all look nice for an inspection team. Bad thins is there were guys walking around with their boots duck taped together and couldn't get new ones because we didn't have the funds....................And don't forget all those overpriced parts, or tools that weren't available, or weren't in the budget, but that we had to have to get underway. My Chief and I once spent our personal money to buy bearings for the lube oil pump that supplied one of the bearings on the main shaft because the parts weren't in the supply chain. The bad thing was we couldn't get underway with that pump not in operation, so in essence $120 worth of bearings would have kept an aircraft carrier pier side.
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