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Long Beach Naval Shipyard (NSY) |
 | | The Long Beach NSY was equipped with facilities and skills to perform all non-nuclear structural, sheetmetal, boiler, rigging, electronics, electrical, lagging, ordnance, sandblasting, welding, machining, woodworking, painting, pipe fitting, and other work pertaining to the overhaul and repair of surface ships. |
 | | Long Beach Naval Shipyard had a modernization and military construction program to meet the critical need to improve waterfront capabilities and facilities and to provide sufficient flexibility to meet workload changes and technological advances required for fleet support. |
 | | In 1994 Long Beach employed approximately 3,000 civilian employees, approximately 800 MWR and Navy Exchange personnel, and was considered a major industry in the local area. |
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