Seabee
Sign in to savethumb|CB Navy Yard Bougainville with the Seabee Expression thumb|3rd Marine Div. 2nd Raider's sign on Bougainville. 53rd CB was the shore party to the 2nd Raiders of Green Beach, D-Day.
Key facts
- Military unit.battles
- World War II Guadalcanal Bougainville Cape Gloucester Los Negros Guam Peleliu Tarawa Kwajalein Saipan Tinian Iwo Jima Philippines Okinawa North Africa Sicily Anzio Normandy Korean War Inchon landing Vietnam War Khe Sanh Dong Xoai Chu Lai Con Thien Desert Storm Operation Iraqi Freedom Enduring Freedom
- Military unit.anniversaries
- formation requested, formation authorized
- Military unit.notable_commanders
- Admiral Ben Moreell
- Military unit.unit_name
- Naval Construction Battalions
- Military unit.image
- USN-Seabees-Insignia.svg
- Military unit.caption
- The Seabee logo
- Military unit.start_date
- 1942
- Military unit.branch
- United States Navy
- Military unit.type
- Expeditionary Forces
- Military unit.role
- Military engineering
- Military unit.nickname
- Seabees
- Military unit.mascot
- Bumblebee
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
37 sectionsContents
- Naval construction history
- World War II
- African American Service: the Seabee stevedores
- Seabee North Slope Oil Exploration 1944
- World War II Seabees outside the NCF
- Marine Corps
- Naval Combat Demolition Units
- Underwater Demolition Teams (UDT)s
- Cold War
- Postwar interlude: Siberia-China
- Nuclear tests
- Korean War
- Camp David
- Antarctica: Science
- Vietnam War
- Space race: NASA/Tektite I
- CIA and Naval Intelligence/Communication support
- Naval Support Unit: Department of State/Embassy security
- Cold War winds down
- International terrorism
- Persian Gulf War
- Iraq, Afghanistan, and the war on terrorism
- Disaster relief and recovery
- Naval Construction Force (NCF)
- Seabees outside the NCF
- Training and rates
- The "Seabee" and Unit insignias
- Qualification badges and Unit awards
- Seabee barge carriers
- Museums
- Seabees of notable Seabee service
- See also
- Notes
- References
- General sources
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|CB Navy Yard Bougainville with the Seabee Expression thumb|3rd Marine Div. 2nd Raider's sign on Bougainville. 53rd CB was the shore party to the 2nd Raiders of Green Beach, D-Day.
United States Naval Construction Battalions, better known as the Navy Seabees, form the U.S. Naval Construction Forces (NCF). The Seabee nickname is a heterograph of the initial letters "CB" from the words "Construction Battalion". Depending upon context, "Seabee" can refer to all enlisted personnel in the USN's occupational field 13 (OF-13), all personnel in the Naval Construction Force (NCF), or Construction Battalion. Seabees serve both in and outside the NCF. The men in the NCF considered these units to be "Seabee".