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Doug Boyd is a patternmaker at the pattern shop at Newport News Shipbuilding. He builds wooden patterns used in the casting of parts for the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78). He says, "There is no 'close enough' in the pattern shop."
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