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  2. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 - Wikipedia

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    Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 (NMCB 133) is a United States Navy Construction Battalion, otherwise known as a Seabee battalion, homeported at the Naval Construction Battalion Center (Gulfport, Mississippi). The unit was formed during WWII as the 133rd Naval Construction Battalion. It saw action and was decommissioned shortly after the ...

  3. Naval Construction Battalion Center Port Hueneme - Wikipedia

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    The museum is the principal repository for the Seabees’ operational history. The Seabee Archive contains various operational records, battalion histories, manuscripts, oral histories, biographies, and personal papers pertaining to the Seabees. [3]

  4. Naval Construction Battalion Center (Gulfport, Mississippi)

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    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 ...

  5. Korean Air Flight 801 - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Seven - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 3 - Wikipedia

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    NMCB 3'S CSTs safely executed more than 130 successful convoy missions resulting in 17 combat action ribbon awards. In November 2005, NMCB 3 was relieved by 133 in Fallujah, Iraq. The unit redeployed to Kuwait to set up main body operations in support of Combined Forces Land Component Command (CFLCC) and Area Support Group, Kuwait. The new main ...

  8. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4 - Wikipedia

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    In the 1970s, NMCB Four deployed to construction sites on Diego Garcia, Guam, Hawaii, and Japan. On 23 April 1975, President Ford announced that Vietnam was over for U.S. involvement. On that date NMCB 4 started construction of a temporary camp for Operation New Life refugees on Guam. It was at the WWII location of the Japanese airfield on the ...

  9. An Hoa Combat Base - Wikipedia

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    An Hòa was located southeast of a major Vietcong (VC)/People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) base area known as the Arizona Territory across the Vu Gia River. [ 2 ] : 41 The base was first used by the Marines in January 1966 during Operation Mallard when the 1st Battalion, 12th Marines established a firebase there while the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines ...