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From the bits of e-mail, the infrequent letters, the short phone calls, families of the Seabees have a fractured picture of life in Iraq filled with fear, fatigue, hostility and homesickness. Sent ...
However, in just over six months, Seabees from Team 2, Detachment India, Amphibious Construction Battalion 2, completed more than seven projects and lent their talents to several more, including the ...
Seabees Get Ready To Pave Trail to Iraq Navy Unit Would Bridge Desert in a War February 15, 2003 By Jonathan Finer ...
Waving American flags and wearing big smiles, about 30 wives, children and other loved ones were on hand at Naval Base Ventura County on Thursday to welcome two busloads of Seabee reservists from ...
There was happiness and relief today at the Salt Lake Airport as six Seabees returned to Salt Lake from Iraq.
Al Taqaddum Air Base is about 60 miles west of Baghdad in Iraq’s Anbar Province. Freelance journalist Axe visited there sometime in January, 2006, while embedded with a battalion of Navy Seabees.
On Thursday, America recognized the heroism of Gulfport Seabees. As Brad Kessie reports, the way Seabees handled their hazardous conditions in Iraq set them apart from other military units.
And as the war in Iraq winds down, artifacts that illuminate the Seabees’ role are expected to pour in, thanks to both Seabees in the field and Navy historians traveling with the troops.
The local Seabees joined a battalion of about 500 who served for about seven months in western Iraq, where they poured concrete, repaired bridges, drilled water wells and delivered equipment ...
As a Navy Seabee recently returning from southwest Asia, including Iraq, I feel compelled to put forth my first-hand views. The majority of what is viewed on the news does a vast injustice to the ...
MIAMI -- Desperate to pitch in after the Sept. 11 attacks, Fernando Labrada quickly joined a reserve unit of the Seabees -- a branch of the Navy that specializes in construction and engineering ...