Feb. 13, 2018

One Family?s Devotion to Service

070730-N-0194K-393 ACAJUTLA, El Salvador (July 30, 2007) - Utilitiesman 2nd Class Charlie King, a Seabee attached to the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) watches music videos with local children at the Centro Escolar Del...

Feb. 11, 2018

This Week in Seabee History (February 11 ? February 17)

OTD in Seabee History: 11 February 2003 - Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Seventy Four (NMCB-74) cleaned their weapons, played cards and wrote letters while they unwound in their 60 man field tents. NMCB-74 was based out of Gu...

Feb. 9, 2018

Gallery: Seabees Around the World

FUJAIRAH, United Arab Emirates (Jan. 13, 2018) U.S. Navy Sailors attached assigned to Amphibious Construction Battalion 1 listen to the welcome brief during Native Fury 18. The exercise is designed to train Special Purpose Marine-Air-Ground Task Forc...

Feb. 8, 2018

Snow Sculpture Finished During 69th Annual Sapporo Snow Festival

SAPPORO, Japan (Jan. 30, 2018) Builder Constructionman Kyle Antrobus, a native of Georgetown, Ky., assigned to Public Works Department Far East, details the 2018 Navy Snow Team Sculpture for the 69th Annual Sapporo Snow Festival. This is the 35th yea...

Feb. 4, 2018

This Week in Seabee History (February 4 ? February 10)

Consolidated by Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, Naval History and Heritage Command [caption id="attachment_13758" align="alignnone" width="640"] The Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, desalinization plant circa 1964. In reprisal for the arrest of Cuba...

Feb. 2, 2018

Gallery: Seabees Around the World

180116-N-FT956-2387 DIEGO GARCIA, British Indian Ocean Territory (Jan. 16, 2018) Commanding Officer of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4 Cmdr. James Cho (left) receives a brief from Builder 3rd Class Veronica Prado on how the Central Tool Room (C...

Feb. 1, 2018

NAVFAC Announces 2017 NCF Award Winners

Story by Scott Ghiringhelli, NAVFAC Headquarters Public Affairs WASHINGTON - Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) announced the winners of the 2017 Moreell Medal, Marvin Shields Award, Steelworker Second Class Robert D. Stethem Award, and...

Jan. 29, 2018

Seabee Mobile 4.0 Now Available

HOMEPORT NEWS showcases timely and relevant stories at home, such as humanitarian efforts, training exercises and change of commands....

Jan. 29, 2018

The First and Finest Train Security Operations

Story by MC3 Alexa Trafton, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1 GULFPORT, Miss. - Seabees concluded a week-long detachment site security exercise on board Naval Construction Battalion Center Gulfport, Mississippi on January 26, 2017. [cap...

Jan. 29, 2018

The First and Finest Train Security Operations

GULFPORT, Mississippi (January 24, 2018) Steelworker Constructionman Kaeleigh Ehlert, from Oxford, Wisconsin, mans a M240B machine gun during the Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1 detachment security exercise on board Naval Construction Ba...