Sept. 20, 2012

National Preparedness Month Starts With You

Someone once said, ?It seems that the tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it.? September is National Preparedness Month, a month-long awareness campaign to improve the nation?s emergency preparedness. All of u...

Sept. 20, 2012

From New Orders to 'Welcome Aboard!'

By NC1(SCW) Robert A. Wetzel, NAVFAC HQ Command Career Counselor New orders: Just the first step in many changes for you and your family. The finish line is your new command, ready and waiting for you. No? Your command didn't know you were...

Sept. 19, 2012

Studying Up a Storm

BU3 Lynda Romero, NMCB 11, studies for her advancement exam while living temporarily in an evacuation shelter at NCBC Gulfport, Miss., Aug. 28. Personnel were evacuated as the base made final preparations for Hurricane Isaac, approaching along the Gu...

Sept. 19, 2012

From Navy Builder to Body Builder

BU1 Deanna Dimeo, 31st SRG, in training mode and competition form....

Aug. 30, 2012

Joint Nation Project has Seabees Partnering with Royal Cambodian Armed Forces

Seabees assigned to NMCB 74 and the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) construct concrete columns that will support the new building. Seabees and RCAF are working together to construct the clinics that will provide pre- and post-partum care for eigh...

Aug. 29, 2012

NCTC Gulfport Prepares for Hurricane Isaac

U.S. Army students assigned to Naval Construction Training Center (NCTC) Gulfport fill sandbags on board Naval Construction Battalion Center (NCTC) Gulfport in preparation for Tropical Storm Isaac, which?made landfall along the Gulf Coast yesterday. ...

Aug. 28, 2012

MCPON Addresses 'Bees of NMCB 1

Story and Photo By MC1 (NAC/AW) Aron Taylor, NMCB 1 PAO Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) Rick D. West addresses the Seabees of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1 during a visit to Camp Mitchell Rota, Spain. NMCB 1 is cu...

Aug. 28, 2012

Fighting 40's Final Deployment 'Adds to Proud Legacy'

By Ens. Paul Naquin, NMCB 40 NMCB 40 'Bees return home to Point Mugu, Calif. from a nine-month deployment to Okinawa, Japan, and 11 detachment sites. This is the final deployment for the battalion which is scheduled for disestablishment in Sep...

Aug. 28, 2012

?Bees Rehab Hospital and School During Pacific Partnership

By BUC Jonathan D. Eisfelder, NMCB 40 EOCN Aaron Lynch (center), NMCB 40, lays floor tile with members from the Cambodian army during an engineering civic action project at Kampung Kreng Health Center, Sihanoukville, Cambodia, Aug. 6, during Pacif...

Aug. 28, 2012

Seabees Join Hawaii National Guard for RIMPAC Exercise

By MC1 Patrick Dille, RIMPAC Public Affairs U.S. Army Spec. Michael Quirindongo Velazquez (left), 84th Battalion Engineer Company, and BU3 Saul Garcia Santibanez, CBMU 303, work at a construction site as part of a humanitarian assistance/disas...