 There are around 87 Navy buildings on Masawa Air Base, and maintaining all these facilities falls on the shoulders of the Seabees at Masawa's Public Works Department. The whole maintenance process starts when they receive work orders. We get the work requests and I send them out to our different skilled workers within my division. So we have painters, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, and we mainly do the simple tasking that is required to meet our short facilities operational needs. Once Trotter divvies out the day's requests, his Seabees go to work. Without the Public Works Department, the facilities would not be able to perform their work safely. Without us, commands wouldn't be able to do their jobs. Petty Officer Ben Larshide, Masawa Air Base, Japan.