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...

May 5, 2016

'Bees rolls out the gravel carpet in Djibouti

By Air Force Staff Sgt. Eric Summers Jr., CJTF-HOA Public Affairs Construction Mechanic 2nd Class Michael Clark, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 22, signals for a dump truck to continue releasing a trail of sand and gravel during road ...

May 3, 2016

NMCB 4 ?Bees Construct Partnerships in Komodo 2016

By?CE3 Santiago Guzman Jr., NMCB 4 UTCN Connor Young, NMCB 4, hammers a nail into a piece of plywood with an engineer from an Asia-Pacific partner nation to prepare for the concrete pour on a 500-meter road on Sipura Island, Indonesia, during ...

May 3, 2016

Seabees Achieve Milestone on Timor Leste Schoolhouse

By MC1 Rosalie Chang, NMCB 4 Public Affairs Seabees assigned to NMCB 4 assist in the transportation and unloading of concrete masonry unit blocks to the Manleuana three-classroom primary school worksite in Dili, Timor Leste, March 19. NMCB...