April 23, 2015

Amphib Seabees Pound Piles, Build Causeway

MC3 Taylor Mohr, PHIBCB 2 Public Affairs EO2?Heath Blobaum, a Seabee assigned to Amphibious Construction Battalion 2 Det 616 from?Minneapolis, Minn., uses a guide line to help steady a pile extractor during the construction of an Elevated Causeway...

April 20, 2015

CCAD Marshall Islands Seabees Practice What They Teach

By BU1 Garnett Whitmire, NMCB 11 Public Affairs EA3?Deshay Baskin takes the substitute Navy Wide Advancement Exam.?Seabees from NMCB 11 CCAD Marshall Islands are deployed to Kwajalein Atoll to complete humanitarian construction projects alongside ...

April 16, 2015

NMCB 5 Seabees Assist School During STEM Week

By?CE3 Quennie May Galarpe, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5 Public Affairs BUCN?Avery Delosh, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5, briefs 2nd grade students on the rules of the newspaper tower building contest during a voluntee...

April 16, 2015

Seabees and Marines Repair Damaged Airfield

?By?BUCN Rosalind Bonenberger, NMCB 11 Detachment Bahrain EO3 Erion Jones and EOCN Kodiak Mehl, NMCB 11, backfill craters created by notional ?shrapnel? in order to establish a minimum operating strip for the Airfield Damage Repair exercise scenar...

April 10, 2015

BEECAM: NMCB 5 Brings Joy to Children of Timor Leste

EACN Viktoria Thompson (left) and ?BUCN Jerowen Vinluan, both assigned to NMCB 5, show the children at Meti Aut Primary School in Timor Leste some of the construction plans they have for building a playground the students can use during recess or aft...

April 9, 2015

Forward-Engaged-Ready: Navy Releases Revised Maritime Strategy

By the Navy Chief of Information Office The sea services released a new maritime strategy, March 13, a plan that describes how the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard will design, organize, and employ naval forces in support of national securi...

April 9, 2015

NAVFAC Contingency Engineering Unit Trains in Jacksonville

By Earl Bittner, NAVFAC Southeast Public Affairs??????????? Lt. Cogan Semler and Lt. Cmdr. Robert McDonald, NAVFAC NR CEU, load equipment into a vehicle prior to their designated team departing for areas on base affected by a simulated storm s...

April 9, 2015

BEECAM: Chief Petty Officer Anniversary Honored in Okinawa

Photo by MC1 John P. Curtis CUCM Matthew Konn, NMCB 5, raises the U.S. Flag during morning colors on Camp Marvin G. Shields, Okinawa, Japan, April 1. The chiefs assigned to NMCB 5 and the 30th Naval Construction Regiment (NCR) performed mornin...

April 1, 2015

NMCB 11 Detachment Guam Seabees Conduct Mount Out Exercise

By Ens. Frances R. Hunter, NMCB 11 Public Affairs SW3 Frank Piner, NMCB 11 DET Guam, scrubs down a grader during the?battalion's 48-hour mount out exercise, Naval Station Guam, March 12.?Photo by Ens. Frances R. Hunter Naval Mobile Construction...

April 1, 2015

U.S. Pacific Fleet Announces 2014 Sea, Shore Sailors of the Year

By MC2 Johans Chavarro, Navy Public Affairs Support Element West, Detachment Hawaii U.S. Pacific Fleet Sea and Shore Sailor of the Year (SOY) finalists and their families attend a guided tour of the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Pun...