Nov. 10, 2014

Wounded Warriors Show Strength During Warrior Care Month

By Ingrid Mueller and Steve Buckley, Fleet and Family Readiness Marketing Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michelle Howard speaks to a service member during the Warrior Games, Colorado Springs, Colo., Sept. 28. The Warrior Games is one of many ...

Nov. 10, 2014

Appreciating Sacrifice on Veterans Day

By Lisa Smith Molinari I?m just a housewife, what the heck do I know? Some days it seems my only expertise is how to wipe smudges off the refrigerator door, but it turns out, I?ve actually learned a thing or two in my 21 years as a military...

Nov. 10, 2014

NMCB 4 Detail Diego Garcia Seabees Tour the USS San Francisco (SSN 711)

By CECA Ginger Knapp, NMCB 4 NMCB 4?Seabees?pose for a photo following a tour of the USS San Francisco (SSN 711) when it came into port on board United States Navy Support Facility Diego Garcia. NMCB 4 is deployed to the Pacific area of respon...

Nov. 10, 2014

NAVFAC Southwest Seabees Help Remove Tree Houses in San Diego River

By Mario Icari, NAVFAC Southwest Public Affairs? NAVFAC Southwest Seabees assigned to self-help Naval Base Point Loma, Naval Base Coronado, Naval Base San Diego San Clemente Island and 1220 Pacific Highway, along with San Diego River Park Foun...

Nov. 10, 2014

Helping Hands: NMCB 25 Seabees Prepare Afghan Engineers for the Future

Part II:?Hands On "Can Do" By MC1 Patrick Gordon, NMCB 25 Public Affairs UT2 (SCW) Karl Philip, NMCB 25, installs an air conditioning unit in an Afghan National Engineer Brigade (NEB) barracks at Camp Ghazi, Afghanistan. Photos by MC1 P...

Nov. 5, 2014

Helping Hands: NMCB 25 Seabees Prepare Afghan Engineers for the Future

Part I: Officer Training By MC1 Patrick Gordon, NMCB 25 Public Affairs EQCM (SCW/FMF) Kirk Ruetten (left), NMCB 25 SFAAT senior enlisted advisor, and Lt. Cmdr. Jeromy Pittmann, NMCB 25 SFAAT officer in charge, November Company commander, re...

Nov. 5, 2014

BEECAM: All the World's a Stage

Gunnery Sgt. Jeremiah Johnson, NMCB 11's military advisor, conducts Escalation of Force and Roles of Engagement training during the command's Unit Level Training day during the battalion's FTX, Camp Shelby, Miss., Oct. 21. FTX is an opportunity for t...

Oct. 31, 2014

BEECAM: NMCB 11 Day 1

?Photo By MC1 Michael C. Barton UCCM Keith Lefebvre, NMCB 11, speaks with Seabees of Det. Two about the convoy brief scheduled during the battalion's Field training Exercise (FTX), Camp Shelby, Miss. Lt. j.g. James Harder, NMCB 11, ...

Oct. 31, 2014

Confluence of War: The Battle of the Atlantic, Iceland and Seabee Origins

Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum Part of the assignment for the Bobcats involved emplacing several 7-inch coastal defense guns on Bora Bora?s heights. Without the use of heavy equipment, the men accomplished the tas...

Oct. 27, 2014

NMCB 5 Challenges Command and Control Expertise During FTX

Photos by MC1 John P. Curtis Using realistic scenarios in a field environment, Naval Construction Group (NCG) 1 evaluated Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 5 during the final field training exercise (FTX), Fort Hunter Liggett, Calif., in ...