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Aromo Bridge water crossing in Uganda using Seabees knowledge
The camp’s perimeter looks like it has been overgrown by bushy Central African foliage. The plant life conceals five-foot-diameter coils of concertina wire strung through it by Seabees from one of the U.S. Navy’s mobile construction teams. At the modest camp’s core is a series of canvas tents, each the color and texture of cracked, dry desert mud. These tents provide living space and working facilities for the 25 Seabees and two U.S. Air Force communication … Read entire article »
Filed under: Humanitarian Assistance, Military
Seabees Wire Zurbatiyah Port of Entry
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 »
Filed under: Iraq, Rebuilding, War on Terror
Engineers and Seabees Work in Partnership on Bridge
DVIDS By Lt. Cmdr. David McAlister, Lt. j.g. Daniel Sommerville The gray, dismal day was no deterrent for the engineers of 814th Multi-Role Bridge Company (MRBC), also known as bridgers, as they constructed the second floating span of a Mabey Johnson Float Bridge in the Al Anbar Province, Jan. 25. With the continued emphasis on reducing coalition force impact to the local Iraqi population, 30th Naval Construction Regiment (NCR) (Forward) coordinated the emplacement of the Mabey Johnson … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Rebuilding, War on Terror
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