June 22, 2013

Graphic Novels Illustrate a Lighter Side of Seabee Training

By MC1(SW/AW) Chris Fahey and UT3(SCW) Jennifer Stewart Click on each image to download the issue.?...

June 22, 2013

PHIBCB TWO Wardroom Judges Local STEM Robotics Challenge

By Lt. j.g. Allison Islin, PHIBCB 2 Judge?Lt. Cmdr. Waldram (center) observes a student demonstration. On May 31, students gathered from all schools in Virginia Beach to compete in the annual Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematic...

June 20, 2013

Radio Swan: Seabees Part of Cold War History

By Kenneth Van Belkum,?Commander, CEC (retired),?OIC of Det. Tango Editor?s note: In 1959 the Cuban revolution ended and Fidel Castro came to power. The Cold War with the Soviet Union was heating up, and in April of 1961 the Bay of Pigs in...

June 20, 2013

NMCB 15 Displays "Can Do" Convoy Security

By Petty Officer 2nd Class Daniel Garas BU3 Joseph Flowers,NMCB 15, secures chains to a pallet of sandbags as he works to construct a bunker project in support of the Afghanistan National Army. Photo by MC2 Daniel Garas Seabees assigned to ...

June 20, 2013

UCT 2 Conducts Cold Weather Altitude Diving in California?s High Sierra

By Lt. Cmdr. Charles Kubic, UCT 2 BU2(SCW/DV) Matthew Dawson emerges from the cold water after an altitude dive during diving training operations,Bridgeport, Calif.,?April 2013. ?Photos By BU2(SCW/DV) Josh Noel UCT 2 Underwater Construction...

June 20, 2013

Seabees Partner with Tongan Marines to Rebuild School

By MC2 Tim D. Godbee (Left to right) A U.S. Navy Seabee, Royal Tongan Marines and a French army marine engineer construct a wall for a new classroom at the Lapaha Primary School during Pacific Partnership 2013 in June, Lapaha, Tonga. Photo by ...

June 20, 2013

Shooting the Move

By Lisa Smith Molinari Prepare all you want, but in the end, every move is a craps shoot. In two days, our movers arrive to take our belongings to Rhode Island. No matter what I do, something will be lost, stolen or arrive broken. I can onl...

June 17, 2013

Battalions' D-Day Role Revealed

Compiled by Lara Godbille, Ph.D., Director, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, Naval History and Heritage Command (First printed in the Seabee News Service on September 19, 1944) Celebrating their 3rd year, Seabees of the 111th NCB take pride in the...

June 14, 2013

Seabees Helped Land Normandy Beachhead Supplies

Compiled by Lara Godbille, Director, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, Naval History and Heritage Command (First printed in the Seabee News Service on July 4, 1944) The 81st Naval Construction Battalion marrying up a rhino ferry to an LST during the inv...

June 14, 2013

Father's Day: Keeping it Simple

By Lisa Smith Molinari My 40-something brain regularly forgets that my sunglasses are perched on my head, can?t remember where I parked the minivan, and compels me to walk around my house mumbling to myself, ?Now, why did I come in here again?...