Forging a Frontline Ally: Royal Australian Navy Maintainers Learn U.S. Submarine Sustainment to Bolster Pacific Readiness
Published on October 9, 2026
Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - In the summer of 2025, in a corner of a machine shop at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PHNSY & IMF), Able Seaman Colby Morley disassembled a pressure valve for testing. It’s the kind of hands-on job he’d rarely get to do back home as an avionics technician with the Royal Australian Navy.
