Nov. 20, 2015

Reserve Seabee Battalions Hold Changes of Command

By MCCS (SCW/SW) Jeffrey J. Pierce, NCG 2 Public Affairs Officer? Cmdr. Lester Ortiz (left) relieves Cmdr. Gregory Schell as the commanding officer of NMCB 27 during a change of command ceremony held on board NCBC Gulfport, Miss., Nov. 6. (P...

Nov. 20, 2015

22nd NCR Successfully Completes NIEX 2016

By MCCS (SCW/SW) Jeffrey J. Pierce, 22NCR Public Affairs Officer 22NCR's Commodore, Capt. Lore Aguayo (left), and NCG 2's Commander, Capt. Paul Odenthal (right), receive the battalion perspective on how NIEX 2016 is progressing from NMCB 133's...

Nov. 20, 2015

Seabees Leave Mark in Kwajalein Atoll and Throughout Pacific

By MC1 Brannon Deugan, NMCB 1 Public Affairs CM2 Kendra Rauch,?NMCB?1, answers questions from seniors during a weekly?Armed Service Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) tutoring session, Ebeye?High School, Republic of Marshall Islands, Nov. 7.?...

Nov. 18, 2015

Seabees Support Special Olympics

By?NMCB 3 Public Affairs Tatsuyuki Higa, the torch runner of the 13th annual Kadena Special Olympics, lights the KSO torch during the opening ceremonies on Kadena Air Base, Japan, Nov. 17, 2012. The Kadena Special Olympics is a one-day sportin...

Nov. 15, 2015

THIS WEEK IN SEABEE HISTORY (Week of Nov. 15)

Consolidated by Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum Seabees with the 58th Naval Construction Battalion (NCB)?pour asphalt on Okinawa, 1945.?(Photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy Seabee Museum) November?15 1942:?ACORN 1 ...

Nov. 12, 2015

BEECAM: NMCB 27 Clears the Way in Horn of Africa

NMCB 27 Seabees assigned to Commander, Task Force 68.2 clear brush from outside Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, Africa, Sept. 8. Clearing the brush is an improvement in force protection for the camp. U.S. 6th Fleet, headquartered in Naples, Italy, conduc...

Nov. 11, 2015

NMCB 4 Field Training Exercise Complete, Ready for Deployment

By MC1 Rosalie Chang, NMCB 4 Public Affairs Office BU3 Terry Darko, NMCB 4, measures the roof of a Southeast hut during the battalion?s field training exercise (FTX), Fort Hunter Liggett, Calif., Oct. 8. ?FTX prepares and tests the battalion?s...

Nov. 11, 2015

BEECAM: NMCB 1 Prepares for Exercise Juniper Cobra 2016 in Israel

EO3 Nickolas Harrison, NMCB 1, grades and compacts soil with a 120M motor grader, Sept. 2, in the area surrounding the facilities in preparation for Exercise Juniper Cobra 2016 in Israel. NMCB 1, in support of 200th Red Horse Squadron of the Ohio Air...

Nov. 11, 2015

NMCB 133 Honors Iwo Jima Seabees? Memory with Black Hell Squad Competition

By MC1 (SW) Cliff Williams, NMCB 133 Public Affairs 151005-N-EW956 Gulfport, Miss. - During the first day of the Black Hell Squad competition, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 Yeoman 3rd Class Jorge Sosa programs an RF-310 radio during ...

Nov. 11, 2015

Serve and be Served: Honoring our Military Community on Veterans' Day

By Lisa Smith Molinari "Now serving R-1-4-7, at window number three," a mechanical female voice said from the base clinic?s new automated pharmacy system. My ticket read ?R-154.? I grabbed a copy of the base newspaper, The Navalog, from the...