COVER FEATURE

Consolidated by Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, Naval History and Heritage Command

Story by MC3 Alexa Trafton, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1 GULFPORT, Miss. – Seabees completed a 96 hour Command Post Exercise (CPX) on board Naval Construction Battalion Center Gulfport, Mississippi on Jan. 19. The exercise prepares Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1 for an upcoming Field Training Exercise by deliberately cycling operations and mission planning in order to effectively test …

Consolidated by Dr. Frank A. Blazich Jr., Historian, Naval History and Heritage Command January 21 1942: The 1st NCB, the earliest Seabee organization activated and sent overseas, later broken into three detachments including the famous Bobcat Detachment, was commissioned at Charleston, South Carolina. 1944: 3rd NCB commissioned. 1971: Seabee Team 0414 departed Saigon, RVN, for CONUS. 1972: 21st NCR change …

Video by MC1 Arthurgwain L. Marquez, Commander, Task Force 75 Seabees, assigned to Underwater Construction Team (UCT) 2, remove piles using underwater demolition techniques from a damaged floating pier at Commander, Fleet Activities Sasebo (CFAS), Jan. 16, 2018. UCT 2 provides construction, inspection, maintenance, and repair of underwater and waterfront facilities in support of the Pacific Fleet. UCT 2 provides construction, …

  Video by Tech. Sgt. Michael McGhee, Combined Joint Task Force, Horn of Africa In the Arta region in Djibouti, Africa, the Naval Mobile Battalion (NMCB) 133, Seabees, continue working on the construction of a medical care facility. The crew was completing a concrete pour for the slab floor of the living quarters at the facility. The construction of the medical …