Aug. 14, 2019

Unshakeable: Bees Recognized for Disaster Recovery Efforts After Multiple Earthquakes

By Lt. Cmdr. Jake McIlvaine, Naval Construction Training Center Port Hueneme...

Aug. 11, 2019

This Week in Seabee History (August 11-17)

Consolidated by Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, Naval History and Heritage Command [caption id="attachment_14670" align="alignnone" width="640"] Seabees of CBMU 301 repair a track in Khe Sahn, RVN, 1968. (Photo courtesy ofU.S. Navy Seabee...

Aug. 6, 2019

EXWC: Multi-Agency Contaminated Water Diving Exercise

PORT HUENEME, Calif. ? Petty Officer 2nd Class Zachary Schulte, NAVFAC EXWC, being decontaminated utilizing the ESSM DECON Kit during a contaminated water dive scenario as part of CONDIVEX 2019. NAVFAC EXWC Dive Locker hosts a Contaminated Water Di...

Aug. 5, 2019

BeeCam: Building with the Indonesian National Armed Forces

190801-N-RM689-1300 GRESIK DISTRICT, Indonesia (Aug. 1, 2019) Rear Adm. Joey Tynch, Commander, Task Force 73, Sailors assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 4, and members of the Indonesian National Armed Forces pose for a group phot...

Aug. 4, 2019

NMCB4 and Indonesian Marines Open New Elementary School

190805-N-TN346-1007 GRESIK DISTRICT, Indonesia (Aug. 5, 2019) U.S. Navy Sailors assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 4, members of the Indonesian National Armed Forces 2nd Engineering Battalion, and students and staff of the SDN Du...

Aug. 1, 2019

NMCB1 Begin Construction of New School for Indigenous Colombian Wayuu Tribe

190726-A-DS579-0061 RIOHACHA, Colombia (July 26, 2019) - Utilitiesman Constructionman Mariame Cherif and Utilitiesman 3rd Class Ashly Marie Cruz, both from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion ONE (NMCB 1), tie rebar during construction of a new schoo...

July 28, 2019

This Week in Seabee History (July 28 ? August 3)

Consolidated by Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, Naval History and Heritage Command [caption id="attachment_14578" align="alignnone" width="477"] Constructionman Camella J. Jones learns how to operate a large crane from a Chief Petty Offic...

July 25, 2019

Seabee Team 0417: Its Humanitarian Mission and Ongoing Story 1971-2019

Consolidated by Lieutenant Jerome Murray, CEC Seabee Team 0417 was a special naval unit that performed humanitarian work with the people of the Republic of South Vietnam (RVN) in 1971 and 1972, one of about 100 Seabee teams that served in ...

July 24, 2019

NMCB3 Seabees Conduct CPX-1

Utilitiesman 1st Class Joshua Poirier, from Kalamazoo, Michigan, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 3, demonstrates patrol formations to Seabees as part of the battalion?s Command Post Exercise (CPX) 1 on Dozer Field at Naval Base...

July 21, 2019

This Week in Seabee History (July 21 ? 27)

Consolidated by Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, Naval History and Heritage Command [caption id="attachment_14430" align="alignnone" width="384"] The front cover of the July 29, 1966 edition of the first Seabee Courier. (Photo by Brian Lamar)...