NAPLES, Italy — A Navy Seabee whose quick thinking helped prevent a suicide earlier this year is ensuring that more sailors have the assistance they need to navigate the rigors of life in the service.
Dozens of sailors assigned to the Naval Construction Battalion Center in Gulfport now have a new rank, and were recognized on ...
It was a special day. I was 10 years old, and my father had arranged for me to take my first ride in an airplane. My dad had a friend—a big, smiling ex-U.S. Army aviator—who owned a Republic RC-3 ...
A power shovel lifts volcanic ash and stone, while loading a 62nd Construction Battalion truck amid a steamy Iwo Jima landscape, March 1945. (National Archives) On D+2 we were just off the south end ...
Utilitiesman 2nd Class Matthew Konopka, Builder 1st Class Courtney Mejia and Builder 2nd Class Anthony Seaton repair drywall during a remodel of the Truman Annex entry control point facility. (Trice ...
KAUAI, Hawaii - Diving in the Pacific Ocean off the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Seabee divers assigned to Underwater Construction Team 2 spent two months conducting maintenance and repair ...
Decked out in digital camouflage, hundreds of Navy Seabees paid witness to the rechristening of Naval Base Ventura County’s front gate on the Seabees’ 78th anniversary in Port Hueneme. Formerly known ...
The “Gator Bees” of Amphibious Construction Battalion 2 have embodied the motto of Navy Seabees for nearly 80 years, building and fighting as called upon. But come March 31, the Virginia Beach-based ...
The entire command team of one of the Navy’s Amphibious Construction Battalions has been relieved in one fell swoop. According to a statement from the Navy, Capt. Jeffrey Lengkeek, Cmdr. Michael ...
A man who dropped out of high school to fight in World War II earned his high school diploma Friday at age 90, according to a report Saturday. Lou Schipper persuaded his mother to let him enlist ...
Republic Aviation is known for one of two iconic warplanes, the P-47 Thunderbolt of World War II fame, and its burley descendant, the A-10 Thunderbolt II, or the Warthog, as so many people lovingly ...