• Mounting up for a Seabee exercise

    Oct. 1, 2015

    If the U.S. military needs to quickly build runways, roadways or most any kind of facility in remote – and dangerous – parts of the world, the Seabees are the ones who get the call. “Seabee” of course is slang for U.S. Naval Construction Forces (NCF), with the word "Seabee" stemming from the initials "CB" for “Construction Battalions.” The Seabees built bases, bulldozing and paving thousands of miles of roadway and airstrips, plus many other construction projects in a wide variety of military theaters dating all the way back to World War II. Recently Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1 undertook a 48-hour “mount up” exercise in Guam to test the their ability to ship out trucks, bulldozers and other gear in a “rapid response” style situation. (All photos courtesy of the U.S. Navy.)

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    Sean Kilcarr

    Editor in Chief

    Sean Kilcarr is a former longtime FleetOwner senior editor who wrote for the publication from 2000 to 2018. He served as editor-in-chief from 2017 to 2018.

     

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