Oct. 10, 2017

This Week in Seabee History (Week of October 8 ? October 14)

Seabees with the 31st Naval Construction Battalion building a road on the side of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Navy Seabee Museum)...

Oct. 3, 2017

CEC/Seabee Historical Foundation donate painting to NECC

171002-N-XJ788-001 VIRGINIA BEACH (October 2, 2017) On behalf of the CEC/Seabee Historical Foundation, David Nash, left, chairman, CEC and Richard Cellon, right, vice chairman, CEC, presents a print of the oil painting, "WE BUILD, WE FIGHT" by James ...

Oct. 1, 2017

This Week in Seabee History (Week of October 1 ? October 7)

Consolidated by Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, Naval History and Heritage Command [caption id="attachment_13521" align="alignnone" width="640"] CBMU 301 working at Khe Sanh, Republic of Vietnam (RVN), 1968. On 6 October 1966, a 113-man a...

Sept. 29, 2017

Friday Gallery: Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief

170918-M-DP650-125 CASIGURAN, Philippines (Sept. 18, 2017) Steelworker 3rd Class Jared Campos, from Rockland, Calif., assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 3 cuts reinforcing steel bars in support of KAMANDAG at Esperanza Elementary School...

Sept. 29, 2017

Building in the Arta Region

https://youtu.be/QfK14dt90Sw Seabees assigned to the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa are building relationships, as well as structures, in the Arta region of Djibouti, Africa. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) ONE started the str...

Sept. 29, 2017

Seabees Go to Sea

170913-N-AH771-0203 KEY WEST, Fla. (Sept. 13, 2017) Landing Craft Unit 1644, attached to Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 2, delivers equipment and supplies to assist with humanitarian relief efforts following Hurricane Irma's landfall in Key West, Fla. The ...

Sept. 29, 2017

Seabee Marine Team Bring Results

20170919-N-JY474-014 CAMP LEMONNIER, Djibouti -- Marines with Charlie Battery, 1st Battalion, 11th Marines (1/11) from the Harpers Ferry-class dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52) look over a gun carriage that will be used to secure their 5-to...

Sept. 27, 2017

U.S. Navy Supports Phase II of Aiea Bike Path Restoration

AIEA, Hawaii (Sep. 22, 2017) Capt. Jeff Bernard, Joint Base Commander, right, helps volunteers from the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH) Chief?s Mess and First Class Petty Officer Association clear invasive mangrove trees from the Pearl Harbor ...

Sept. 24, 2017

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

Members of a Seabee Team in 1963 show off their rates. These teams could be tailored to fit any size task, but normally consisted of one junior Civil Engineer Corps officer, eleven construction men and a hospital corpsman. The crew and equipment util...

Sept. 22, 2017

Seabee CMC and Sailors Volunteer with Habitat for Humanity

170921-N-KB426-121 OKLAHOMA CITY (Sept. 21, 2017) Sailors assigned to Commander Strategic Communications Wing 1, Tinker Air Force Base, volunteer at a community relations event with Habitat for Humanity during Navy Week Oklahoma City. Navy Week prog...