May 16, 2012

SECNAV "Pins" Two Seabees at Camp Leatherneck

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and YN2 Deron M. Bennett, NMCB 11...

May 16, 2012

Seabee IA Receives Purple Heart in Afghanistan

By BUC Eric Chamberlin, NMCB 40 CMCN?Nicholas Morton, assigned to NMCB 40 and serving in Afghanistan as an Individual Augmentee, receives the Purple Heart medal from command leadership, April 6. Construction Mechanic Constructionman Nich...

May 16, 2012

Seabees Build Women's Clinic in Guatemala

By 2nd Lt. Harold D. Williams, Tennessee Army National Guard Public Affairs A team of 23 Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 23 constructed a women?s medical clinic in the town of El Rancho as part of Beyond the Horizon (BTH) G...

May 16, 2012

CBMU 303, NMCB 25 Build Homes for Navajo families

By BUC Kimberly Gibson, CBMU 303 Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit (CBMU) 303 deployed a task-tailored team of 20 active duty and reserve component Seabees from four permanent detachment sites to Window Rock, Ariz., in support of the Departm...

May 1, 2012

Motorcycle Safety: The Smart Road Starts With You

By Tony Militello, P.E., Safety Program Manager, NAVFAC, and BUCS(SCW/EXW) Jonathan E. Ring, Force Safety Officer, 1NCD, Naval Construction Forces Command It is no surprise that operating a motorcycle introduces a unique set of hazards outside of ...

April 23, 2012

Perspective: The ?State? of Seabees in NSU

By Rear Adm. David M. Boone, CEC, USN Director, Shore Readiness, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Fleet Readiness and Logistics) [caption id="attachment_1554" align="alignleft" width="163" caption="Rear Adm. David M. Boone, CEC, USN"][/caption] ...

April 19, 2012

Marengo, NMCB 26 Among Navy's Best

By TSgt. Dan Heaton, 127th Wing Public Affairs Cmdr. Regina Marengo (lower left) gathers with members of NMCB 26 at a work site in Afghanistan, where the battalion spent the last half of 2010 and the first half of 2011. Both Cmdr. Marengo and th...

April 19, 2012

NFELC Seabee Wins Leadership Award

By MCC Daniel Pearson, NFELC CEC(SCW/DV) Lynn Rodriguez, NFELC Chief Construction Electrician (SCW/DV) Lynn Rodriguez, Naval Facilities Expeditionary Logistics Center (NFELC), recently won the Master Chief Anna Der-Vartanian Award for visiona...

April 16, 2012

CM3 Marvin Shields Award

?BU1(SCW) Reno R. Perryman, NMCB 4 [caption id="attachment_1400" align="alignleft" width="229" caption="BU1(SCW) Reno R. Perryman, NMCB 4"][/caption] Builder 1st Class (SCW) Reno R. Perryman distinguished himself through sus?tained superior perfor...

April 16, 2012

NMCB 7 Det Prepares Camp Moreell for Final Turnover

By MCC Yan M. Kennon, NMCB 7 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) and MRAP-All Terrain Vehicles (M-ATV) are loaded on trailers to be transferred from the custody of?NMCB 7 Detachment Moreell to Maritime Security Forces at Ali Al Salem Ai...