By WYATT OLSON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: February 3, 2021 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii — Almost 16 years ago, the Navy launched a plan to identify Reserve sailors with maintenance backgrounds, familiarize them with shipyard operations and then send them to work there during their annual two-weeks of training. Under the so-called Surge Maintenance program, these reservists would be groomed for full-time deployment at one of the nation’s four shipyards in the event of a wartime emergency.