America's North Shore Journal

A small group of eight U.S. Navy Seabees from Amphibious Construction Battalion Two, Detachment India recently completed a long overdue electrical upgrade to the Zurbatiyah port of entry border crossing. The crossing is one of four main border posts along the 1,000-mile Iran-Iraq border operated by the directorate of border enforcement, Iraqi army and Iraqi police services. They control a hive of activity in the otherwise empty desert with over 150 oil trucks crossing daily and over 1,500 Iranians, almost all of them pilgrims, crossing to visit Iraq’s Shiite shrines in the holy cities of Karbala and Najaf. Fresh off completing a recent Patrol Base build, the Seabees arrived to the site in mid-October and made immediate impacts to the POE, normally operating on less than two hours a day of city … Read entire article »