Feb. 5, 2019

NAVFAC Announces 2018 NCF Award Winners

WASHINGTON? - Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) announced the winners of the 2018 Moreell Medal, Marvin Shields Award, Steelworker Second Class Robert D. Stethem Award, and Rear Adm. Lewis B. Combs Award, recognizing outstanding performan...

Feb. 5, 2019

NAVFAC EXWC MUSE Seabee Presented 2019 Marvin Shields Award

UT1 (SCW/IW) Cole Einhaus and CM1 (SCW/IW) Scott Mignogna (pictured on left) from (NAVFAC) Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center (EXWC) Mobile Utilities Support Equipment (MUSE) lead the installation of a power plant used to support Naval Ordi...

Feb. 4, 2019

Seabees Turn Over Ali Oune Medical Clinic to Djiboutian Officials

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. James D. Craig, commanding general, Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA), speaks to U.S. Navy Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1, assigned to CJTF-HOA, during the Ali Oune Medial Clinic ribbon cuttin...

Feb. 3, 2019

This Week in Seabee History: February 3 - 9

Consolidated by Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, Naval History and Heritage Command [caption id="attachment_13758" align="alignnone" width="640"] The Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, desalinization plant circa 1964. In reprisal for the arrest of Cuba...

Jan. 31, 2019

Bringing Innovation to Fruition: Marines 3D Print 1st Reinforced Concrete Bridge in Western Hemisphere

U.S. Navy Sailors with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5 and Soldiers with Army Corps of Engineers work together to make concrete during 7th Engineer Support Battalion?s 3D Concrete Printing exercise at Camp Pendleton, Calif., Dec. 7, 2018. 7th E...

Jan. 31, 2019

Seabees Lead Navy Snow Team in Sapporo Snow Festival

SAPPORO, Japan (Jan. 29, 2019) Chief Builder Franklin Ring, a native of Greensboro, N.C., explains the design of the Navy sculpture for the 70th Annual Sapporo Snow Festival to members of the snow team. Approximately two million visitors from around ...

Jan. 27, 2019

This Week in Seabee History: January 27-February 2

Consolidated by Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, Naval History and Heritage Command [caption id="attachment_13737" align="alignnone" width="640"] Seabees of Naval Construction Battalion 121 joined the Fourth Marine Division and landed on R...

Jan. 24, 2019

Giving Back to Community: NMCB-3 Wins Navy-Wide Community Service Awards

190124-N-TP832-1079 OKINAWA, Japan (Jan. 24, 2018) Cmdr. Joseph Harder, commanding officer of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 3, announces the battalion?s selection for three 2018 Navy-wide unit community service awards during command quar...

Jan. 22, 2019

This Week in Seabee History: January 20-26

Consolidated by Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, Naval History and Heritage Command Late January 1990: Devastating floods struck central Tunisia, displacing families and destroying railroad lines and bridges. As part of Exercise "Atlas Rail...

Jan. 17, 2019

NMCB 133 Opens the Door for Wiggins Police Department

190115-N-ZI635-002 WIGGINS, Miss. (Jan. 15, 2019) Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 133 turned over newly renovated police station to city of Wiggins during a ribbon-cutting ceremony held at the station. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communicat...