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April 19, 2016

Seabee Magazine Print Issues Available Online

Seabee Online is providing back issues of SEABEE magazine for download. Since the Seabees were established in 1942, NAVFAC -- then the Bureau of Yards and Docks -- used various printed media to preserve the stories about what Seabees were doing in...

April 19, 2016

Profile: Rear Adm. Harry Harwood Rousseau, CEC, USN, 1870 ? 1930

By Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum Rear Adm.?Harry H. Rousseau as Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Jan.?6 ? Mar. 25, 1907. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy Seabee Museum) Although his tenure as the 13th Chief...

April 18, 2016

NMCB 11's Women's Resiliency Council Hosts Important Symposium

By MC1 Michael Barton, NMCB 11 Public Affairs (Left) Rear Adm. Bret Muilenburg, commander of Naval Facilities Engineering Command and chief of Civil Engineers, and?Seabee Force Master Chief Percy Trent speak with Seabees aboard Naval Construct...

April 18, 2016

This Week in Seabee History (Week of April 17)

Consolidated by Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum During World War II, Rear Adm. R.O. Glover, commander 7th Fleet Forces, awards a Navy Silver Star to Motor Machinist's Mate 3rd Class Malcolm A. Peppo, who was as...

April 18, 2016

NMCB 28 Transfers Authority at Camp Phoenix, Afghanistan

By MC1 Patrick Gordon, NMCB 25 Public Affairs Cmdr. Jennifer Donahue (far right), commanding officer, NMCB 25, salutes Col. Diana Holland, commander, 130th Engineer Brigade, during a transfer of authority ceremony between NMCB 28 and NMCB 25, Cam...

April 14, 2016

NAVFAC Hawaii Seabees Build New Ramps for Child Development Center

By CE2 (SCW) Seth Weaver, Public Works Department, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Seabee Division Seabees from NAVFAC Hawaii Public Works Department Seabee Division and Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit (CBMU) 303 worked together to con...

April 12, 2016

NMCB 5 Seabee Receives Stethem Award

By CE2 Caitlin N. Scott, NMCB 5 ?????????????????????????? Builder 1st Class Mark Wells Builder 1st Class Mark Wells, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 5, was awarded the Robert D. Stethem award during a ceremony, M...

April 12, 2016

NMCB 27 Seabee Named Reserve Sailor of the Year

By MC1 Kevin O'Brien, Navy Reserve Chief of Information Reserve Sailor of the Year, Equipment Operator 1st Class Steven Butterhof, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 27, delivers his acceptance speach during the Reserve Sai...

April 11, 2016

NMCB 22 Mobilizes with Assistance from ECRC

By MCCS (SCW/SW) Jeffrey J. Pierce, 22 NCR/NCG 2 Public Affairs Members of Expeditionary Combat Readiness Center (ECRC) Deployment Processing Team/Fly Away Team assisted Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion?(NMCB) 22 as they prep...

April 11, 2016

This Week in Seabee History (Week of April 10)

Consolidated by Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum Seabees constructing a power station during World War II. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy Seabee Museum) April 10 1963: During the Cuban Missile Crisis,?Equipment ...