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Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4 (NMCB 4) is a Navy Seabee battalion homeported at Port Hueneme, California. [2] Nicknamed the "Pioneers", it is the first of the many CBs created after the original three. The battalion's current insignia first appeared on its 1953–55 cruisebook. 4th NCB WWII insignia.
Seabee Museum) Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1 (NMCB ONE), is a United States Navy Seabee battalion. NMCB ONE, the original "Pioneers", has a long, proud and distinguished history as the very first Naval Construction Battalion of the service that would become known as the Seabees. F4U at Turtle Bay Airfield on Espirto Santo.
Naval Construction Battalion 5 was commissioned on May 25, 1942 at Camp Allen Va. [2] The battalion went to Port Hueneme and shipped out for the first of two deployments in the Pacific. When the war ended CB 5 was decommissioned in the Philippines. On July 10, 1951 the Battalion was re-commissioned as a MCB and remains an active unit today.
The Ghost Battalion was relieved by NMCB 10 and disbanded 1 November 1967. A "High Priority" in 1968 was roadwork on Route 1, the length of Vietnam. In addition to NMCB 133, CBs 1, 4, 7, 8, 11, 53, 58, 62, 71, 74,and 138 all worked concurrently on it. In 1969 the third deployment was to Camp Wilkinson, at Gia Le, 6 miles southeast of Hue.
Pacific Partnership. Pacific Partnership is an annual deployment of forces from the Pacific Fleet of the United States Navy (USN), in cooperation with regional governments and military forces, along with humanitarian and non-government organizations. The deployment was conceived following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, as a way ...
Kỳ Hà 03/21. 660 feet (201 m) AM2 Marston Mat. Chu Lai Base Area (also known as Chu Lai Combat Base or simply Chu Lai or Kỳ Hà) is a former U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) base in Chu Lai in central Vietnam. Kỳ Hà Air Facility was part of the installation and was located in the northern half, Chu ...
Seabees of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 40 at Mogadishu, Somalia December 1992. In August 1990, after Saddam Hussein 's Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait, the battalion was called from its deployment site in Guam to support I MEF and II MEF in Saudi Arabia. FORTY participated in the II MEF bed-down.
Forward Operating Base 4 (also known as FOB 4) is a former Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) Command and Control North base. It was near the Marble Mountains southeast of Da Nang, Vietnam. Seabees from NMCB 12 built sea huts on the base in 1968. [ 1]