Oct. 13, 2017

Gallery: Seabees Around the World

170927-A-QE286-0126 PUERTO BARRIOS, Guatemala (Sept. 27, 2017) U.S. Navy Equipment Operator 1st Class Gary Shepard, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1, checks a drill rig nozzle during water well drilling operations, as part of Souther...

Oct. 11, 2017

PHIBCB 2 and CBMU 202 Answer the Call in Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and Key West

SAN FRANCISCO (Oct. 2, 2017) San Francisco Police Department prepares to escort Amphibious Construction Battalion 1?s disaster response equipment through the city during Fleet Week San Francisco 2017. Fleet week provides an opportunity for the Americ...

Oct. 11, 2017

NAVFAC Training Support Agency Trains Seabees on Lightweight Water Purification System

By Amber Vaglica, Center for Seabees and Facilities Engineering VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.-Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Training Support Agency (TSA) conducted Lightweight Water Purification System (LWPS) initial training onboard Joint Exp...

Oct. 11, 2017

NMCB-11 Completes FTX, Readies for Deployment

From NMCB 11 Public Affairs Office GULFPORT, Miss. - The Seabees of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 11 completed their Field Training Exercise (FTX) and Final Evaluation Problem (FEP) at Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center near Hat...

Oct. 11, 2017

How a Seabee Found His Voice

170912-N-FU443-0075 NASHVILLE (Sept. 12, 2017) Construction Mechanic 1st Class Jason Chase, a native of Battle Creek, Mich., poses for a photo outside of Navy Recruiting District Nashville Headquarters. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Speciali...

Oct. 10, 2017

This Week in Seabee History (Week of October 8 ? October 14)

Seabees with the 31st Naval Construction Battalion building a road on the side of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Navy Seabee Museum)...

Oct. 3, 2017

CEC/Seabee Historical Foundation donate painting to NECC

171002-N-XJ788-001 VIRGINIA BEACH (October 2, 2017) On behalf of the CEC/Seabee Historical Foundation, David Nash, left, chairman, CEC and Richard Cellon, right, vice chairman, CEC, presents a print of the oil painting, "WE BUILD, WE FIGHT" by James ...

Oct. 1, 2017

This Week in Seabee History (Week of October 1 ? October 7)

Consolidated by Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, Naval History and Heritage Command [caption id="attachment_13521" align="alignnone" width="640"] CBMU 301 working at Khe Sanh, Republic of Vietnam (RVN), 1968. On 6 October 1966, a 113-man a...

Sept. 29, 2017

Friday Gallery: Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief

170918-M-DP650-125 CASIGURAN, Philippines (Sept. 18, 2017) Steelworker 3rd Class Jared Campos, from Rockland, Calif., assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 3 cuts reinforcing steel bars in support of KAMANDAG at Esperanza Elementary School...

Sept. 29, 2017

Building in the Arta Region

https://youtu.be/QfK14dt90Sw Seabees assigned to the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa are building relationships, as well as structures, in the Arta region of Djibouti, Africa. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) ONE started the str...