May 19, 2016

NAVFAC's Seabee Online Wins First Place in DoD-wide Thomas Jefferson Media Competition

WASHINGTON (April 29, 2016) ? Naval Facilities Engineering Command?s (NAVFAC) SEABEE Online?won first place for ?Best Digital Publication? in the 2015 Thomas Jefferson (TJ) competition, an honor awarded for the best communications products across all...

May 18, 2016

UCT 2 Techs Tackle Tough Training

Story and photos by SW2 David Miller, Underwater Construction Team 2 (160429-N-ZZ999-001) Construction Mechanic 3rd Class Ryan Filo, assigned to Underwater Construction Team 2, performs a weld for his Lloyd's Register certification test, A...

May 16, 2016

IA Seabee Welcomed Back to Hawaii

By CE2 (SCW) Seth Weaver, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Public Works Department, Seabee Division UT1 Franklyn T. Vasquez stands in the Honolulu Airport luggage claim area on May 7 with the entire NAVFAC Hawaii's Public Works Department Se...

May 15, 2016

This Week in Seabee History (Week of May 15)

Consolidated by Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum Capt. Katherine (Kate) Gregory, commodore of the 30th Naval Construction Regiment (NCR), welcomes the unit's Gold Team on their return to Naval Base Ventura Count...

May 12, 2016

Homefront: Housewife burnout ? Why did I stay home?

By Lisa Smith Molinari It took four punches of the snooze button to get me out of bed this morning. I wasn?t tired. Or sick, for that matter. But I was sick and tired. Sick and tired of the same old routine, minute after minute, day afte...

May 12, 2016

'Bees and Marines Train Together at Balikatan

Photos by MC1 Doug Harvey, NMCB 4 Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 4 participated in Balikatan, an annual Philippine-U.S. military bilateral training exercise that is a signature element of the Philippine-U.S. alliance focus...

May 10, 2016

BEECAM: UCT 1 Conducts Diver Casualty Training in Greece

Photos by MC2 Brittney Cannady Seabees assigned to Underwater Construction Team (UCT) 1 help Steelworker First Class?(DV) Franklyn Tamarez back to the surface during a diver casualty training drill, Souda Bay, Greece, April 26. (Photo by MC2 B...

May 10, 2016

BEECAM: UCT 1 Conducts Diver Casualty Training in Greece

Photos by MC2 Brittney Cannady Seabees assigned to Underwater Construction Team (UCT) 1 help Steelworker First Class?(DV) Franklyn Tamarez back to the surface during a diver casualty training drill, Souda Bay, Greece, April 26. (Photo by MC2 B...

May 9, 2016

This Week in Seabee History (Week of May 8)

Consolidated by Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum Seabee sign at the Bougainville Navy Yard in the Solomon Islands, Jan. 2, 1944.?(Photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy Seabee Museum) May 8 1943: 7th Special Naval Co...

May 6, 2016

CBMU 202 Seabees Commended for Support to Disabled Vet

By BU2 Stephanie Wolff, CBMU 202 (Top Left) Michael Fleming, retired Army National Guard Brig. Gen. and Chairman of the Board of HandsOn Jacksonville, presents Builder 3rd Class Kurtis McQueary with a letter of appreciation for contributio...