Oct. 23, 2014

NMCB 11 Departs for FTX

By MC1 Michael C. Barton, NMCB 11 Public Affairs Seabees assigned to NMCB 11 load all required gear, Gulfport, Miss., Oct. 12, before departing for the unit's Field Training Exercise (FTX) on Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Miss. The scheduled two-w...

Oct. 23, 2014

NMCB 3 Nears Completion of New Small-Arms Range Facility

By MC1 Chris Fahey, NMCB 3 Seabees from NMCB 3 construct scaffolding structures at Naval Base Ventura County Point Mugu, Calif., Oct. 8. Photo by MC1 Chris Fahey A crew of seven Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 3 surg...

Oct. 20, 2014

BEECAM: NMCB 5 Conducts Airfield Damage Repair

?Photo by MC1 John P. Curtis BUCN Chelsey Peralesmona, NMCB 5, places a spacer into aluminum (AM-2) matting during an airfield damage repair (ADR) exercise, Naval Base Ventura County, Calif., Sept. 17. The exercise is one of the Seabee bat...

Oct. 17, 2014

UCT 1 on the Dive Side

Story courtesy of Expeditionary Combat Camera BU1 Carlos Hernandez, UCT 1, aboard USNS Apache (T-ATF-172), conducts structural and environmental survey of Tactical Air Combat Training System (TACTS) towers for future demolition operations. Pho...

Oct. 16, 2014

NMCB 4 ?Bees Build School Facility and Relationships in Cambodia

By?CE3 Kevin Bhirdo, NMCB 4 Ms. Chheng Phat, school director, Samdech Chea Sim Primary School, provides the final cut to the ribbon during a ceremony, Oct. 2, that marked the official turnover of a five-stall head facility constructed for the ...

Oct. 16, 2014

Building the Future of Afghanistan, One Stitch at a Time

By MC1 Patrick Gordon, NMCB 25 Public Affairs Interpreter Amy Adl (far left) watches as ANA 2nd Lt. Fardin Poyah (center) practices suturing techniques on a butchered cow?s leg under the instruction of HMC (SCW) Jeffrey Loftus , NMCB 25, in ...

Oct. 16, 2014

NCG 2 Seabee Dedicated to Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation

By EA3 Lawrence Romang, NCG 2 Public Affairs EO1 Doug Pojeky feeds a bald eagle that came to Wild at Heart Rescue with wing damage. After a fight with an osprey and injury from electrical wires, the eagle is showing steady improvement at the r...

Oct. 16, 2014

NMCB 133 Supports Joint NEO Exercise

By MC1 (SW) Cliff Williams, NMCB 133 Public Affairs? EO1 Matt Ward, NMCB 133 Detail Rota, briefs role players for Evacuation Control Center (ECC) protocols during a non-combatant evacuation operation exercise on board Naval Station Rota, Spain...

Oct. 15, 2014

NMCB 3 Teams with YMCA to Spruce Up Colorado Ranch

By MC3 Drew Verbis, NMCB 3 EO3 (SCW) Aaron Wilson, NMCB 3, operates a front-end loader at a construction project on the YMCA?s Snow Mountain Ranch in Granby, Colo., where Seabees participated in building projects under the DoD?s Innovative Rea...

Oct. 15, 2014

BEECAM: NMCB 1 Conducts Homeport Training

Seabees from NMCB 1 participate in an M16 qualification range, Harrison County Fairgrounds, Gulfport, Miss., Sept. 30. NMCB 1 is conducting the maintenance phase of its homeport training cycle after returning from a six-month deployment to the Pacifi...