Editing Seabee (section)

== Notes ==
'''World War II'''
* [[File:United States Navy Presidential Unit Citation ribbon.svg|80 px]]&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Presidential Unit Citation (US)|Presidential Unit Citation USN/USMC]]
** 6th CB, 1st Marine Div., Guadalcanal.<ref name="NHHC">[https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/n/navy-mc-awards-manual-rev1953/pt2-unit-awards.html Naval History and Heritage Command website, Part 2 – Unit Awards, 31 August 2015]</ref>
** 18th CB, 2nd Marine Div., Tarawa<ref name="NHHC"/>
** 33rd CB, shore party detachment, 1st Marine Div., Peleliu<ref name="NHHC"/>
** 73rd CB, shore party detachment, 1st Marine Div., Peleliu<ref name="NHHC"/>
** 121st CB, 12-man doodlebug landing party, 4th Marine Div., Tinian<ref name="NHHC"/>
* [[File:United States Army and U.S. Air Force Presidential Unit Citation ribbon.svg|80px]]&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Presidential Unit Citation (US)|U.S. Army Distinguished Unit Citation]]
** 40th CB, 1st Cavalry Div., Los Negros<ref name="NHHC"/>
** 78th CB, 12 men, 1st Cavalry Div., Los Negros<ref name="NHHC"/>
* WWII U.S.N. CB awards for valor were listed each month in ''All Hands'' along with the rest of the Navy.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130921054220/http://www.navy.mil/ah_online/department_arch1941.html Valor Awards, All Hands, Defense Media Activity for U.S. Navy Office of Information]</ref>

'''Marine Corps, Seabees outside the NCF'''
* When the 18th, 19th and 25th CBs were transferred to the Marine Corps they each were reduced by one company plus 1/5th of Hq Co to match the organization of a USMC battalion. B Co from the 25th CB<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=gyMhFyaNsKYC&dq=replacement+group%2C+fmf-tc&pg=PA116 25th Naval Construction Unit History, Seabee Museum Archives, Port Hueneme, CA p.o]</ref> and C Co from the 18th CB<ref>[https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/museums/Seabee/UnitListPages/NCB/018%20NCB.pdf 18th Naval Construction Battalion Log, date 2-8-43, Navy Seabee Museum website, Port Hueneme, CA]</ref> were used to form the 53rd CB. The other company was used to form the 121st CB.
* Due to Seabees being given advanced rank upon enlistment, enlisted Marines referred to construction battalions as "sergeant's battalions". USMC sergeants do not pull guard duty, so the ranked Seabees would not be assigned. The NCOs of the 18th wore USMC chevrons and not USN "crows" on their uniforms.<ref>{{cite book |title=From Omaha to Okinawa: The Story of the Seabees |first=Willam Bradford |last=Huie |publisher=E.P. Dutton |location=New York |year=1945}}</ref>
* USN insignia on USMC issue.<ref>[http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/NHC/books/Navy_Marks/navy_marks.htm Insignia table, Group II: Hospital Corpsmen and Seabees assigned to Marine Units, U.S. Navy Marks (and others) on Marine Uniforms, John A. Stacey, 2005, Published by John A. Stacey, 2880 Smith Point Road, Nanjemoy, Maryland 20662, Dept. of the Navy, Naval Historical Center, Wash. Navy Yard, DC, p. 4]</ref>
* Seabees were shore party for the Marines on Bougainville,<ref name="71USNCB"/> Peleliu,<ref name="auto1"/> Guam,<ref>{{cite book |title=25th Naval Construction Battalion: Pacific Diary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gyMhFyaNsKYC&pg=PA116|publisher=U.S. Navy Seabee Museum |page=116 |access-date=18 October 2017}}</ref> Purata Island,<ref name="auto"/> Roi-Namur, Saipan,<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-P-Marianas/USA-P-Marianas-7.html |title=U.S. Army in World War II, The War in the Pacific, Campaign in the Marianas |chapter=Chapter VII: Supporting Arms and Operations |first=Philip A. |last=Crowl |publisher=U.S. Army |year=1959 |page=125 |access-date=18 October 2017}}</ref> Iwo Jima,<ref name="4thMarDiv"/> and Okinawa.<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Appendix IV |chapter-url=https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-M-Okinawa/USMC-M-Okinawa-IV.html |first=Charles S. |last=Nichols |title=Okinawa: Victory in the Pacific |publisher=USMC Historical Section, United States Marine Corps |location=Quantico, VA |date=1955 |access-date=18 October 2017}}</ref> The Marines deployed them as combat engineers at Cape Gloucester,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://seabeemagazine.navylive.dodlive.mil/2015/12/23/this-week-in-seabee-history-week-of-dec-20/ |first=Frank A. |last=Blazich |title=This Week in Seabee History (Week of 20 December) |date=23 December 2015 |website=Seabees Online |publisher=Navy Facilities Engineering Command |access-date=18 October 2017 |archive-date=15 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815182113/http://seabeemagazine.navylive.dodlive.mil/2015/12/23/this-week-in-seabee-history-week-of-dec-20/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Tarawa,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149620;article=13338 |title=TarawaTalk – Tarawa Seabees |date=20 November 2009 |website=DiscussionApp |access-date=18 October 2017 |archive-date=5 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170805140325/http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149620;article=13338 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and Tinian.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y56Dut69s5UC&pg=PA222|title=U.S. Marine Corps World War II Order of Battle: Ground and Air units in the Pacific War, 1939–1945 |first=Gordon L. |last=Rottman |location=Westport, CN |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=2002 |page=328 |access-date=18 October 2017|isbn=9780313319068 }}</ref>
* The first Marines assigned to a CB were attached to CBD 1010 on Guam.<ref>[https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/museums/Seabee/Online%20Reading%20Room/Manuals%20and%20Publications/Publications/seabeenewsservice/Issue%2028_%2011%20Jul%201944.pdf Seabee News Service], The BuDocks, 11 July 1944, p. 4</ref> The 2nd Separate Marine Engineer Battalion was next, assigned to the 27th NCR with two former USMC CBs; the 25th and the 53rd.<ref>[https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/museums/Seabee/UnitListPages/Brigades-WWII/05%20NCBr.pdf 5th Naval Construction Brigade, NHHC, p. 9, Navy Seabee Museum, Port Hueneme, CA.]</ref> In mid-August 1944 the 1st Separate Marine Engineer Battalion was assigned to the 30th NCR.<ref>[https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/museums/Seabee/Cruisebooks/wwiicruisebooks/misc-cruisebooks/6%20%20Naval%20Construction%20Brigade.pdf 6th Naval Construction Brigade Log, published by Commodore P.J. Halloran, printed by 92nd CB, 1945, p. 12/38, Seabee Museum Archives, Port Hueneme, CA.]</ref> Prior, 100 Marines were assigned to the 71st CB on Bougainville.

'''NCDUs, Seabees outside the NCF'''
* NCDUs at Normandy: 11, 22–30, 41–46, 127–8, 130-42<ref name="NCDU Report">[https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/rep/Normandy/CTF-122-NCDU.html Report on Naval Combat Demolition Units in Operation "NEPTUNE" as part of Task Force 122, Lt.(jg) H. L. Blackwell Jr., USNR, 5 July 1944.]</ref>
* The Joint Army Navy Experimental Testing (JANET) site for beach obstacle removal, Project DM-361, was located at the ex-Seabee base, Camp Bradford after the NCDU program moved.<ref>[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.846.4763&rep=rep1&type=pdf Joint-Service Beach Obstacle Demolition in World War II, James Douglas O'Dell, April–June 2005, p. 36–40]</ref>
* 14 NCDUs were combined to create UDT 9, almost completely Seabees<ref name="Rockies"/>
* NCDUs 200 – 216 were combined to create UDT 15.<ref name="UDT Cold">''The Water Is Never Cold'', James Douglas O'Dell, 2000, p. 132, Brassey's, Dulles, VA.</ref>
* [[File:United States Navy Presidential Unit Citation ribbon.svg|80 px]]&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Presidential Unit Citation (US)|Presidential Unit Citation USN/USMC]] : Naval Combat Demolition Force O on Omaha beach at Normandy.<ref>
[https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/d/d-day-the-normandy-invasion-combat-demolition-units.html D-Day, the Normandy Invasion: Combat Demolition Units, Naval History and Heritage Command official U.S. Navy web site]</ref>
* [[File:Navy Unit Commendation ribbon.svg|80 px]]&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Navy Unit Commendation]]: Naval Combat Demolition Force U on Utah beach at Normandy.

'''UDTs, Seabees outside the NCF'''
* The [[Naval Special Warfare Command]] building at the U.S.N. Seal base at Fort Pierce is named for Ltjg. Frank Kaine CEC commander of NCDU 2.
* [[William J. Donovan|General Donovan]] the head of the OSS approached [[Douglas MacArthur|General MacArthur]] and [[Admiral Nimitz]] about using OSS men in the Pacific<ref name="UDT10"/> with Europe invaded. Gen. MacArthur had no interest.<ref name="UDT10"/> Adm. Nimitz looked at Donovan's list and also said no, except he could use the swimmers from the Maritime Unit.<ref name="UDT10"/> He was only interested in them for being swimmers not being OSS.
* Seabees outside the NCF, made [[History of the United States Navy|naval history]].<ref name="Frogman"/> Admiral Turner recommended over 60 Silver Stars and over 300 [[Bronze Star]]s with Vs for the Seabees and other service members of UDTs 1-7<ref name="Frogman">[https://books.google.com/books?id=_1THUFop2BkC&dq=UDTs+at+Guam&pg=PT122 ''America's First Frogman'', Elizabeth K. Bush, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 2012, Chapt. 7]</ref> That was unpresendented in USN/USMC history.<ref name="Frogman"/> For UDTs 5 and 7 at Tinian and UDTs 3 and 4 at Guam, all officers received a silver stars and all enlisted received bronze stars with Vs.<ref name="Fane">''Naked Warriors'', Cdt. Francis Douglas Fane USNR (Ret.), St. Martin's Press, New York, 1996, pp. 122, 131</ref> Adm. [[Richard Lansing Conolly|Conolly]] felt Lt. Crist and Lt. Carberry of UDTs 3 & 4 should have received Navy Crosses at Guam.<ref name="Fane"/>
* many of the men from UDTs 1 and 2 were used to form UDTs 3 and 4.<ref name="UDT Cold"/>
* UDT 3 at formation had 11 CEC, 4 USN, 1 USMC Officers<ref name="Rockies"/>
* UDT 7's officers went through "indoctrination" in "Area E" at Camp Peary.<ref name="Rockies"/>

'''Seabee North Slope Oil Exploration 1944'''
* Seabee Creek was named by CBD 1058 and runs into the Colville River at Umiat, AK.
* USN geologists with CBD 1058 discovered the large Aupuk Gas Seep.<ref>[http://dggs.alaska.gov/webpubs/dggs/pir/text/pir2008_001e.pdf Geochemistry of the Aupuk Gas Seep Along the Colville River—Evidence for a Thermogenic Origin, by Paul L. Decker and Marwan A. Wartes, Alaska Division of Oil & Gas, Anchorage, AK, p. 1 ]</ref>

'''Cold War: Korea – Seabee Teams'''
* In October 1965 MCB 11 had two Seabee Teams assigned to "Project Demo". The U.S. State Dept. tasked them with de-bugging embassies behind the [[Iron Curtain]] and repair the damage caused by the removal.<ref>[https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/museums/Seabee/Cruisebooks/postwwiicruisebooks/NMCB/nmcb11-cruisebooks/NMCB%2011_1964-65.pdf MCB 11 cruisebook 1964–65, pp. 66/102 Seabee Museum Archive, Port Hueneme, CA.]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170122214400/https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP75-00001R000300210032-7.pdf >Spy "Bugs" Open New Worlds for Seabees to Conquer, CIA library reading room]</ref>

'''Cold War: Antarctica'''
* [[Seabee Heights]] is a geologic feature of the [[Transantarctic Mountains]]. It overlooks the [[Beardmore Glacier]] Seabee traverse route inland.
* [[Seabee Hook]] is located near the site of Hallett Station on the [[Ross Sea]].

'''Cold War: Vietnam'''
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=8ZXwbHcoDOkC&pg=SA4-PA17 Commander Naval Construction Battalion U.S. Pacific Fleet, Tân Sơn Nhất, Republic of Vietnam, Completion Report 1963–1972.]
* Military training for CBs during this period lasted six weeks. Two weeks were at the respective [[homeport]] and four weeks with the Marines at Camp Lejuene or [[Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton|Camp Pendleton]].
* [[File:United States Navy Presidential Unit Citation ribbon.svg|80 px]]&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Presidential Unit Citation (US)|Presidential Unit Citation USN/USMC]] : Dets from MCBs 5, 10, 53 and CBMU 301 in support of the 26th Marines at the [[Battle of Khe Sanh]] Jan–Feb 1968.<ref name="ReferenceB"/>
* Cold War projects: 1961 floating [[dry dock]] for Polaris submarines at [[Holy Loch#US Navy at Holy Loch|Holy Loch]], Scotland.<ref name="CB-BMR">{{cite web| url = http://navybmr.com/study%20material/14234a/14234A_ch1.pdf| title = U.S. Navy BMR study guide| access-date = 19 November 2017| archive-date = 30 August 2020| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200830202304/http://navybmr.com/study%20material/14234a/14234A_ch1.pdf| url-status = dead}}</ref> 1963 U.S. Naval Communications Listening Station [[Nea Makri]], Greece.<ref name="CB-BMR"/>

'''Cold War: CIA'''
* When CBD 1510 transferred to CBD 1504 it was designated for function similar to Acorns: Aviation and OTA.<ref>[https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/museums/Seabee/UnitListPages/CBD-Post-WWII/CBD%201504.pdf Entry dated: 1.21.48, p. 2, CBD 1504 records, NHHC, Seabee Museum Archives, Port Hueneme, CA.]</ref> The Navy's use of "OTA" denotes the assignment to the CIA in that [[Other Transaction Authority]] (OTA) is the term commonly used to refer to the (10 U.S.C. 2371b) authority of the Department of Defense (DoD) to carry out certain prototype, research and production projects."<ref>[http://acqnotes.com/acqnote/careerfields/other-transaction-authority-ota Other Transaction Authority (OTA), AcqNotes/ Defense Acquisition University, Fort Belvoir, VA]</ref>
* In 2007, the Naval Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC) authorized funding forty Naval Intelligence billets in the NCF.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200118080929/https://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=30008 Seabees Deploy First Intelligence Superhighway, NNS070614-02 Release Date: 6/14/2007, CMC Shane Montgomery, 30th NCR Public Affairs]</ref> The goal was to have organic NCF Intelligence personnel. Historically the training officer would become the intelligence officer when a CB deployed.
* CIA redacted memorandum dated 14 June 1968 discusses the use on Naval Construction Personnel/Seabees on a project.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170123215809/https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP78-04986A000100010008-6.pdf Availability of Naval Construction Battalion (SEABEE) Personnel for Renovation and Construction Duties (Sanitized)], CIA Library, Document Number (FOIA) : CIA-RDP78-04986A000100010008-6, published 19 June 1968, released 19 March 2001</ref>

'''Iraq Afghanistan'''
* [[File:United States Navy Presidential Unit Citation ribbon.svg|80 px]]&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Presidential Unit Citation (US)|Presidential Unit Citation USN/USMC]] : 30th NCR, NMCBs 4, 5, 74, 133, Air-Det 22nd NCR, Air-Det UCT 2, NCF Support Unit 2 in support of the First Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF Engineer Group) in November 2003 added later upon review were: NMCBs 7, 15 as well as Air-Det NMCB 21, Air-Det NMCB 25, and CBMU 303 Det.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://seabeemagazine.navylive.dodlive.mil/files/2016/04/2005.pdf |title=Issue No. 1, 2005 ''SEABEE Magazine'', p. 21, NavFac Engineering Command, Washington Navy Yard, DC |access-date=15 December 2018 |archive-date=17 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200217205320/https://seabeemagazine.navylive.dodlive.mil/files/2016/04/2005.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> (per: CMC MARADMIN 507/03)<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.marines.mil/News/Messages/Messages-Display/Article/891086/announcement-of-approved-presidential-unit-citation-navy/| title = Marines, official website of the Marine Corps}}</ref>
* In 2015, ACB 1 moved the [[Orion (spacecraft)]] [[Boilerplate (spaceflight)]] [[test article (aerospace)|test article]] for NASA at San Diego, CA.

'''Seabee insignia'''
* World War II Naval Construction Battalion Logos<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnavyseabeemuseum/sets/72157626327961668/ Naval Construction Battalion Logos, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, Port Hueneme, CA]</ref>
* CBs sponsored many B-29s on Tinian tagging the aircraft with Seabee unit insignia as nose art.<ref name="Bowden">{{cite web |url=http://www.usaaf-noseart.co.uk/theme.php?theme=10#.WNyO8W_yuUm |title=Naval Construction Battalions (Seabees) |first=Mark |last=Bowden |website=USAAF Nose Art Research Project |access-date=18 October 2017}}</ref><ref name="Nose Art Tinian">{{cite web |url=http://b-29.org/313BW/505thbg/tinian-noseart/tinian-noseart.html |title=Nose Art Tinian |website=b-29.org |access-date=18 October 2017 |archive-date=1 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170401144541/http://b-29.org/313BW/505thbg/tinian-noseart/tinian-noseart.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="worldwarphotos.info">{{cite web |url=http://www.worldwarphotos.info/gallery/usa/aircrafts-2-3/b-29/ |title=B-29 Superfortress WW2 heavy bomber designed by Boeing |website=World War Photos |access-date=18 October 2017}}</ref>

'''Naval Support Unit'''
* In 1977, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow suffered a severe fire prompting the construction of a new one in 1979. At the construction site of the new embassy twenty to thirty Seabees were assigned to oversee 800 plus Russian construction workers.<ref>[http://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2012/September%202012/0912embassy.aspx "Cleaning the Bug House"], by Peter Grier, ''Air Force Magazine'', September 2012</ref> This prompted the Russians to embed bugs in construction materials prior to delivery to the construction site. The success of the [[KGB]] in [[bugging]] the new embassy only reinforced the State Department's need for the Seabees.

'''SEABEE Barge Carriers'''
* Unusual Hull Design Requirements of the SEABEE Barge Carriers.<ref>[http://www.shipstructure.org/pdf/75symp06.pdf Unusual Hull Design Requirements, Construction Operating Experience of the SEABEE Barge Carriers] by Stuart W. Thayer, Member, Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., New Orleans, LA, and Alfred H. Schwendtner, Associate Member, J. J. Henry Co., Inc., New York, The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, New York, Presented at the Ship Structure Symposium, Washington, DC, October 6–8, 1975</ref>