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HQ for the Navy's Armed Guards was in New Orleans. The Armed Guards manned the deck guns of Merchant vessels under contract to the Navy. On March 21, 1944, Camp Hollyday was disestablished [8] and the base changed to a Naval Training Center for ratings in basic engineering, diesel engine, radio, quartermaster, and electrician. The electrician ...
Eleven's fourth Seabee Technical Assistance Team (STAT) was sent to a Special Forces camp near the junction of two jungle routes, one called the Ho Chi Minh trail. It was the main route for the Viet Cong into South Vietnam, and lead to the most decorated group of Seabees in Seabee history. The battalion's 1967 tour exposed the men to the most ...
Within a day, the Seabees from NMCBs 1, 7, and 133 NCB were tasked to Joint Task Force Katrina. [66] They were joined by NMCBs 18 and 40 plus ACB 2 and CBMUs 202 and 303. During the mission 133 and the other Seabees provided extensive humanitarian aid to the Gulf coast including the homes of their own. [66] "The battalion had 118 who either ...
The 1969-70 deployment took NMCB 7 to the combat base at Chu Lai. In August 1970 the battalion was decommissioned at the Construction Battalion Center, Davisville, Rhode Island. While in Vietnam CB 7 had eight Seabee teams all in the south and Mekong delta. 0701 1967 Diên Khánh; 0701 1968 Phan Rang; 0702 1967 Tân An base camp; 0703 1968 Sóc ...
US Navy 050403-N-0577F-001 Seabees of NMCB ONE Air-Det, work to construct the Surgical Facility at Camp Fallujah, Iraq US Navy 070924-N-3857R-003 Chief EO Orlando Phillips, NMCB ONE gives instruction From the fall of 1971 through early summer of 1972, NMCB ONE was the second battalion to occupy and construct the British Indian Ocean Territory ...
The Seabees brought with an organic element the Marines did not have i.e. bulldozers with winches and D8s 132–148 Hp compared to the Marine's TD 18s 72–80 Hp. Afterwards the Marines assessment was that: "in all future amphibious operations a Seabee component or one with equal road building capabilities be assigned to the assault".
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NMCB 26 closed out the decade with continuing their training and readiness and completing projects within the US at Columbus, New Mexico, Naval Weapons Station Charleston, and Nogales, Arizona. In 2008 the Command fell under the control of CDR Phil Spalding who continued the FRTP cycle ensuring all Seabees were ready for any mission assigned.