Jan. 5, 2018

Gallery: The 55 Gallon Drum

Nicholas Moore, steelworker constructionman, uses a grinder to remove the bung from a 55-gallon drum to complete his field-crafted barbecue grill in the village of Kagay. Stationed in Gulfport, Miss., Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion ...

Jan. 4, 2018

Civic Action Team: Building Relationships

Video by MC1 Benjamin A. Lewis, Commander, Task Force 75 Public Affairs A Civic Action Team (CAT) is usually small in manning, but their task is worldly and demanding. This detail is a highly mobile, air transportable construction unit that can be...

Jan. 4, 2018

Civic Action Team: Building Friendships

Video by MC1 Benjamin A. Lewis, Commander, Task Force 75 Public Affairs A Civic Action Team (CAT) is usually small in manning, but their task is worldly and demanding. This detail is a highly mobile, air transportable construction unit that can be...

Jan. 3, 2018

Two Sailors Work Together to Save a Life

GULFPORT, Mississippi (December 15, 2017) Equipment Operator Constructionman Daniel Sellmeyer is awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal by Cmdr. Lance Flood, Commanding Officer of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1 on December 15, 201...

Jan. 2, 2018

This Week in Seabee History (Week of December 31 ? January 6)

Consolidated by Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, Naval History and Heritage Command [caption id="attachment_13705" align="alignnone" width="640"] A Seabee recruiting brochure, circa 1942. On Jan. 5 of that year, the Bureau of Navigation (n...

Dec. 24, 2017

This Week in Seabee History (Week of December 24 ? December 30)

Consolidated by Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, Naval History and Heritage Command [caption id="attachment_13701" align="alignnone" width="640"] A portion of an Army bridge being pushed into place on the Rhine River near the Remagen bridg...

Dec. 22, 2017

Gallery: Seabees Around the World

UMA KADAUK, Timor Leste (Dec. 8, 2017) Builder 3rd Class Colton Matchske, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 4,uses a mag float on the wet concrete for a smooth finish. NMCB 4 is forward deployed to the pacific, ready to support ...

Dec. 21, 2017

Gulfport Seabees Build Partnerships with Local Police Department

Seabees assigned to ELEVEN have been working away on the Wiggins Police Department project site over the past few weeks and are beginning to transfer project responsibility to NMCB-1 this week....

Dec. 17, 2017

This Week in Seabee History (Week of December 17 ? December 23)

UH-1D's at Amundsen Camp, Antarctica. These small helos were used to ferry personnel to otherwise inaccessible areas of the Trans-Antarctic mountains, where the geologists conduct studies of the history of the Earth's last frontier, 23 December 1970....

Dec. 15, 2017

Gallery: Seabees Around The World

Two Light Amphibious Recovery Craft (LARC-V) ride into the surf during a quarterly joint reserve and active duty component beach exercise on Dec. 9, 2017, at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado. Beachmaster Unit One deploys and supports combat ready Beach...