May 27, 2016

Fort Carson Seabees to Relocate as NMCB 17 is Decommissioned

By Lt. Cmdr. Leia Guccione, USNR, NMCB 17 Public Affairs Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 17, known as the Desert Battalion, decommissioned Sept. 28, Fort Carson, Colo., after seven decades of service. The decommissioning of NMCB 17 ...

May 27, 2016

This Week in Seabee History (Week of May 29)

Consolidated by Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum Port Hueneme, California (date unidentified). The last Seabee Team Site in Vietnam was closed in April 1972, and the detachment was transferred to the 31st Naval Cons...

May 22, 2016

This Week in Seabee History (Week of May 22)

Consolidated by Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum Seabees?helped clear Rio Reventado Channel in Costa Rica to divert mud-slides in 1964. (U.S. Navy photo by All Hands Magazine, August 1965) May?22 1943:?93rd Naval...

May 22, 2016

1NCR, NMCB 22 Completes Operation Bearing Duel FTX

By Lt. Hugo Cabrera, NMCB 22 Public Affairs NMCB 22's Charlie Company sets the timber tower in place during Operation Bearing Duel 04-14, the battalion's Field Training Exercise (FTX) at Fort Hunter Liggett, Calif., April 12-26. During the FTX, ...

May 19, 2016

BEECAM: Play Ball! Seabees Refurbish Guam Baseball Field

?By NAVFAC Marianas Public Affairs Office Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Marianas Self-Help Seabees watch Merizo Martyrs School students play baseball after a legislative resolution presentation and ribbon cutting ceremony a...

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...