Aug. 22, 2016

This Week in Seabee History (Aug. 21)

Consolidated by Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum Shown is a model of a Landing Ship, Tank (LST) on display at the U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, Naval Base Ventura County, Port Hueneme, California. These ships played ...

Aug. 18, 2016

BEECAM: ?Bees Build Pacific Partnership with Malaysian Army Engineers

Royal Australian Air Force photos by Air Force Imagery Specialist CPL David Cotton CE2 Ernest Cherwin (left), SW3 Roy Hughes (center), Amphibious Construction Battalion (ACB) 1, and Malaysian Army Engineer Corporal Hasan Shauki measure cement ...

Aug. 16, 2016

The Seabees' Consolation

By Metalsmith 2nd Class Bernard (Barney) O'Donnell, 117 Naval Construction Battalion Editor?s note: The following poem was sent to Seabee Online by ME2 O?Donnell?s great-nephew, Christopher Werner. From World War II to the present, any Sea...

Aug. 12, 2016

This Week in Seabee History (Aug. 14)

Consolidated by Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum Seabees of CBMU 301 repair a track in Khe Sahn, RVN, 1968. (Photo courtesy ofU.S. Navy Seabee Museum) August?14 1970:?Cmdr. H.E. Keppel Jr., Civil Engineer Corp...

Aug. 12, 2016

Seabees Complete Airfield Parking Pad Construction in Djibouti

A dump truck releases gravel onto the ground to further construction of a parking pad at a Djibouti Airfield, July 28, 2016. Logistical delays, such as gravel delivery, occasionally delayed construction, but the Seabees completed the project ahead of...

Aug. 11, 2016

Seabees, Marines Work Together in Fiji

By Cpl. William Hester, III Marine Expeditionary Force/Marine Corps Installations Pacific U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Alex Hernandez (left) and?Steelworker?2nd Class?Samuel Rojas, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4,?bend rebar in prepa...

Aug. 10, 2016

Leadership Changes Hands at Maintenance Battalion

By Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit 303 Public Affairs Lt. Cmdr. Eric Hass (left) passes the command flag to Lt. Cmdr. Javier Lopez-Martinez during a change of command ceremony for Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit (CBMU) 303 aboa...

Aug. 8, 2016

This Week in Seabee History (Week of Aug. 7)

Consolidated by Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum   Seabee?Team 0406 setting the grade on footing forms for Chieu Hoi housing project, Bao Trai, RVN, 1967. (Photo Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Seabee Museum) ...

Aug. 4, 2016

Seabees Begin Bilateral Training in Timor-Leste

160801-N-DH124-240 DILI, Timor-Leste (Aug. 1, 2016) - A member of the Forsa Defesa Timor-Leste (F-FDTL) explains his course of action for a simulated mission plan to U.S. Navy Lt. j. g. Charity Whitfield, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battali...

Aug. 2, 2016

This Week in Seabee History (July 31)

Seabees with NMCB 7's Delta Company pour generator building walls for Page communication facility, May 25, 1966....