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June 13, 2016

BEECAM: PWD Yokosuka Chief Makes Senior

Photos by Izumi Morine, NAVFAC Far East Public Affairs (160606-N-SQ046-001) Chief Construction Electrician (SCW/EXW) Derrick Stephens, Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Far East Public Works Department (PWD) Yokosuka, was promoted ...

June 13, 2016

This Week in Seabee History (Week of June 12)

Consolidated by Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum ? On Dec. 21, 1944, the first B-29s landed on Strip No. 1, North Field at Tinian Island, Marianas, not long after Seabees of the 6th NCB completed repairs and expanded...

June 8, 2016

Embark Exercise Develops Minds and Spirits of Seabees

By MC1 Brannon Deugan, NMCB 1 CMCN Zachary Walker, NMCB 1, works on the battery terminal for a light plant aboard NCBC Gulfport, Mississippi, June 7, during a battalion embark exercise. NMCB 1 conducted the 24-hour exercise with a scenario for...

June 8, 2016

Embark Exercise Develops Minds and Spirits of Seabees

By MC1 Brannon Deugan, NMCB 1 CMCN Zachary Walker, NMCB 1, works on the battery terminal for a light plant aboard NCBC Gulfport, Mississippi, June 7, during a battalion embark exercise. NMCB 1 conducted the 24-hour exercise with a scenario for...

June 7, 2016

Seabees Take Part in CARAT Philippines 2016

By Task Force 73 Public Affairs Builder 3rd Class Kiara Harris from Navy Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 4 splits a board with a circular saw at Beddeng-Mabangcal Elementary School in Zambales, Philippines?during Cooperation Afloat Readines...

June 6, 2016

Seabees Conduct ADR Training to Challenge 21st Century Threats

By MCCS (SCW/SW) Jeffrey Pierce, NCG 2 Public Affairs Equipment Operator Constructionman Blake Farnsworth, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 11, uses a front end loader with a sweeper attachment to clear debris from a runway duri...

June 6, 2016

This Week in Seabee History (Week of June 5)

During the Normandy invasion in World War II, Seabees with the 111th Naval Construction Battalion unload heavy equipment from a Rhino ferry, June 1944. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Navy Seabee Museum)...

June 3, 2016

BEECAM: We Build We Teach

Photos by Ensign Alex Liu, NMCB 133 KWAJALEIN, Marshall Islands (160505-N-ZZ999-003) Builder 3rd Class Marissa Olson, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction?Battalion 133 Construction Civic Action Detail Marshall Islands, explains a mathema...

May 30, 2016

ACB 1 Helps NASA Lift Off

By MC3 Eric Chan, ACB 1 Seabees attached to ACB 1 use an 11k forklift to move the Orion Boilerplate Test Article (BTA) into position by a crane for disassembly at Naval Base San Diego, Calif., April 14. NASA is currently preparing for Expl...

May 28, 2016

Seabee Centenarian Becomes Honorary ACB 2 Fighter Builder

By MC3(SW/AW) Jonathan Pankau, ACB 2 Public Affairs (Right) Capt. James R. Mims (Ret)On Dec. 2, Capt. James R. Mims (Ret) celebrated his 100th birthday with a party at the Oaks Country Club in Richmond, Va., a letter from the President of the Unit...