Jan. 20, 2016

BEECAM: CNO Visits NMCB 133 Tech Training Site

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson places a cinder block at NMCB 133's tech training site, Naval Construction Battalion Center, Gulfport, Miss., Jan. 8. Richardson and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Mike Stevens observed builder a...

Jan. 20, 2016

Seabees Help Girl Scouts Earn Wood Working Badge

By MC1 Brannon Deugan, NMCB 1 Members of NMCB 1?s Female Mentorship Program assists Girl Scout Troop 12 with the construction of three coat racks for the local Girl Scout Hut, Camp Mitchell, Naval Station Rota, Spain, Oct. 28, 2015. (Photo by ...

Jan. 17, 2016

THIS WEEK IN SEABEE HISTORY (Week of Jan. 17)

Consolidated by Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum Seabees climb down a landing net in a ship-to-shore move during military training, March 1944.?(Photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy Seabee Museum) January 17? 1968:?The...

Jan. 15, 2016

BEECAM: NMCB 27 Constructs Runway in Djibouti

BU3 Andrew Lentine, NMCB 27, constructs form work during a runway apron expansion project in Chebelley, Djibouti, Dec. 17, 2015. U.S. 6th Fleet, headquartered in Naples, Italy, conducts the full spectrum of joint and naval operations, often in concer...

Jan. 15, 2016

Scenes from NMCB 3 Jungle Warfare Training

CECN Jacob H. Raines, NMCB 3, fights through knee-high mud and water while running a six-hour endurance course at the Marine Corps Jungle Warfare Training Center, Okinawa, Japan, Jan. 12. NMCB 3 is deployed to several countries in the Pacific Area of...

Jan. 14, 2016

Seabees Renovate Majuro Atoll Museum, Library

By Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Brannon Deugan   BU3 Julian Nino (left) and CM2 Kendra Rauch, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1, greet U.S. Ambassador Tom Armbruster during a NMCB 1 visit to Majuro, Re...

Jan. 12, 2016

BEECAM: USS Omaha Christened Navy's Newest Littoral Combat Ship

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and distinguished guest renders honors as Seabees assigned to NMCB 11 present the colors during the christening ceremony for the Navy's newest littoral combat ship, USS Omaha (LCS 12), Mobile, Ala., Dec. 19. (Photo by ...

Jan. 12, 2016

Navy Announces Combining of Builder, Engineering Aide and Steelworker Ratings

From Chief of Naval Personnel Public Affairs Active duty and Reserve senior chief builder (BU), engineering aide (EA) and steelworker (SW) general ratings will be combined into the constructionman senior chief (CUCS) according to NAVADMIN 294/15, ...

Jan. 11, 2016

THIS WEEK IN SEABEE HISTORY (Week of Jan. 10)

Seabee sign on Bougainville Island, part of the Solomon Islands archipelago, Jan. 2, 1944. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy Seabee Museum)...

Jan. 7, 2016

BEECAM: New Classrooms in Cebu

Lt. j.g. Tyler Anderson (left) and Chief Builder Andrew Hernandez, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 3, Civic Construction Action Detail (CCAD) Cebu, pose for a group photo with members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and ...