101 Naval Heritage

Those qualities are readiness, flexibility, selfsustainabity & mobility.

- In 1770 during the Revolutionary war George Washington

-AN set up a sea offenaive againt the British

-Prior to 1941 overseas construction was done by civilan contractors

-According to the laws of war the civilian who defended themselves are treated as guerillas.

-So the Navy trained a combat construction force

-Organized Jan 1942

Officially given permission to use the name Seabee

-Father of the Seabee

-Dec 28 1941 requeted permission to create constrution battallions

-Jan 5 1942 permission was grated to stand up NCR

First and only Seabee in history to be awarded the Medal Of Honor , for his heroic efforts in Vietnam. ( awarded 13 SEP 1966 ) on the wall at (panel 02e, row 007)

- Was executed in June 15 1985 during a hI-jacking of flight TWA- 847 in Lebanon . He was in UCT-1

- Purple heart & Bronze star Recipient.

- Key to successfully training, sustaining and fighting as a naval force.

- 240,00 enlisted men served in the Seabees at this time

- Building airstrips, warehouses, hospitals and housing for 1.5 million servicemen

- Had 35 days to complete an airstrip, they had the strip ready in 15 days

- While under constant enemy bombardment.

- 26,000 Seabees served in Vietnam

- Seabees built roads, airfields, warehouses and hospitals

- Civic action team- provided water and utilities, taught construction

- One of the largest peacetime construction effort on British Indian Ocean territory of Diego Garcia

- Building the naval communications station on Diego Garcia

- Seabee projects included tent camp for 42,000 personnel, three galleys, 10 aircraft parking aprons, several EPW camps

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They perform a variety of engineering work in planning, designing and over seening construction & maintenance of structures and facilities