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SN Heyser: NMCB 133's first Purple Heart of 1968 deployment: note the cover The battalion was reactivated 12 August 1966 in Gulfport, Mississippi, as a Mobile Construction Battalion. [ 51 ] It seems the battalion did not have a copy of the unit History from WWII with the Disney insignia and there was a belief that the battalion's first ...
After preparing for a 5th deployment to Vietnam in August 1969, the battalion orders were changed and NMCB 3 was deployed to Camp Kinzer (present-day Camp Shields), Okinawa. While at Camp Kinzer, the battalion made numerous improvements to the camp itself, including the construction of a new subsistence building, barracks and roads.
The mission of the Naval Construction Battalion Center (CBC) Gulfport is: To maintain and operate facilities and provide services and material in support of Naval Construction Force Units, to include Amphibious Construction Fleet Units, the Maritime Prepositioning Force (Enhanced), and other fleet and assigned organizational units deployed from or homeported at CBC Gulfport, and to perform ...
United States Navy Seabees of NMCB-133 and NMCB-40 were some of the first on the scene and used their earth-moving equipment to clear roadways and timber from the crash-site approach. The Seabees used backhoes to crack open the still-burning plane to rescue survivors and erected mortuary tents for first responders.
In all, NMCB 7 removed 250 damaged trees, 3000 tons of steel and scrap metal, and 600 tons of other debris. NMCB 7 was selected as the Atlantic Fleet Naval Construction Force Battle Efficiency "E" winner. In February 2006 NMCB 7 deployed to Kuwait, CENTCOM AOR, and other locations in direct support of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). The ...
Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 25 or NMCB 25 is a Navy Reserve Seabee unit that is headquartered at Port Hueneme, CA. Its World War II predecessor was one of three CBs transferred to the Marine Corps in the late summer of 1942 as combat engineers. Those three battalions were attached to composite Marine Engineer Regiments as the third ...
NMCB 5 was the last battalion to deploy to Vietnam March to November 1971. [2] The battalion had numerous incidents with mines on that deployment. NMCB 5 also had an unusual number of flag officer visits again on this deployment. In 1972, the battalion moved all its troops and equipment to Thailand. [2]
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