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Dec. 24, 2017

This Week in Seabee History (Week of December 24 ? December 30)

Consolidated by Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, Naval History and Heritage Command [caption id="attachment_13701" align="alignnone" width="640"] A portion of an Army bridge being pushed into place on the Rhine River near the Remagen bridg...

Dec. 22, 2017

Gallery: Seabees Around the World

UMA KADAUK, Timor Leste (Dec. 8, 2017) Builder 3rd Class Colton Matchske, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 4,uses a mag float on the wet concrete for a smooth finish. NMCB 4 is forward deployed to the pacific, ready to support ...

Dec. 21, 2017

Gulfport Seabees Build Partnerships with Local Police Department

Seabees assigned to ELEVEN have been working away on the Wiggins Police Department project site over the past few weeks and are beginning to transfer project responsibility to NMCB-1 this week....

Dec. 17, 2017

This Week in Seabee History (Week of December 17 ? December 23)

UH-1D's at Amundsen Camp, Antarctica. These small helos were used to ferry personnel to otherwise inaccessible areas of the Trans-Antarctic mountains, where the geologists conduct studies of the history of the Earth's last frontier, 23 December 1970....

Dec. 15, 2017

Gallery: Seabees Around The World

Two Light Amphibious Recovery Craft (LARC-V) ride into the surf during a quarterly joint reserve and active duty component beach exercise on Dec. 9, 2017, at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado. Beachmaster Unit One deploys and supports combat ready Beach...

Dec. 15, 2017

303 Ready To Execute Mission

Seabees from Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit (CBMU) 303 depart their perimeter for a convoy to conduct an Expeditionary Medical Facility (EMF) site survey. (U.S. Navy photo by Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Jeremy Ferrer)...

Dec. 15, 2017

Gas! Gas! Gas! Seabees Hone Deployment Readiness

Steelworker 1st Class Michelle Wheeler plots the decontamination area for the chemical, radiological, and biological (CBR) team during a training drill on board Naval Construction Battalion Center Gulfport. NMCB 1 completed the exercise that assessed...

Dec. 11, 2017

Seabees ?Can Do? Holiday Cheer

A 35 foot tall bouncy castle snowman towers above the ice skating rink at NCBC Gulfport MWR?s annual Christmas Tree Lighting Event Dec 1st, 2017. (U.S. Navy photo by Personnel Specialist 3rd Class Kitara Byerly/Released)...

Dec. 10, 2017

This Week in Seabee History (Week of December 10 ? December 16)

1942: Diorama recruitment trailer at a recruitment stop, pictured here during World War II. Navy recruiters traveled around the country passing out brochures and enlisting trained construction professionals into the Seabees. Per Presidential order, d...

Dec. 8, 2017

Gallery: Seabees Around the World

(U.S. Navy photo by Construction Electrician Constructionman Ashley Concepcion)...