If you have lost one leg and one arm you can still fill a number of positions; with an artificial arm and leg you can take training so that you can do about as well as a man with both legs and one arm. If you were right-handed and lost your right arm, you can be trained to use your left arm just as well. Even with one arm and both legs gone you can learn to fill almost all clerical positions, many jobs in the machine shop, many inspection jobs, and work in the drafting room.
The loss of an eye will not bother you at all; and if your hearing is partially or wholly destroyed, you can still learn to fill many positions in the shops where instructions come to you in the form of drawings.
Of course, the particular positions that you can fill depend on just the sort of an injury that you have sustained, and you should consult your vocational adviser about your own particular case; but if you are interested in navy-yard employment, you are not necessarily out of it on account of such injuries as are mentioned above.
What Sort of Work is Done in Navy Yards?
As a part of the work of the Navy, ships must be refitted, repaired, and overhauled, new ships must be built, and all sorts of material, equipment, and supplies must be manufactured and kept ready for use.
To provide for this work Congress has established navy yards and naval stations at various points on the coast which are a part of the Navy and are operated under its control.
These navy yards do a great many different sorts of work. Ships are sent to them for overhauling, alterations, and repairs. They serve as supply depots for all sorts of equipment, much of which is often made in the yard shops. In a number of the larger yards various sorts of naval vessels are built.
A navy yard carries on so many different kinds of work that it offers opportunities for employment in a great many trades and occupations. Some of these occupations are carried on in the open air. Some call for the operation of various machines turning out a standard product, while others deal with alteration or repair jobs. In some lines of work a man can sit or stand at this job, while in others he is continually moving about.
Besides the trades themselves a navy yard carries on a certain amount of office work, offering opportunities for employment in such work as stenography, typewriting, various kinds of clerical work, storekeeping, and mechanical, ordnance, and structural drafting.