The Navy Seabees are combat builders who can construct, repair, and defend critical infrastructure in some of the harshest ...

As sunbeams pierce the storm clouds over Latvia’s coastline, the US navy Seabees are building the boat ramps that may one day ...

On October 27, 1943, during the Allied landing on Mono Island in the Treasury Islands, Machinist’s Mate Aurelio Tassone of ...

While construction equipment and the people who operate them are not the most oft considered implements in the modern military, they nonetheless play a crucial role. The U.S. Armed Forces is comprised ...

"We Build! We Fight!" is the motto of the Fighting Seabees, members of the US Navy's elite Construction Battalions (CBs - get it?). This tireless team has built bases, roads, schools, and anything ...

A detachment of U.S. Navy Seabees is heading home after 184 days installing a floating pier at America’s largest research station in Antarctica. The structure, designed to replace McMurdo Station’s ...

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - When you combine land-based construction talent with underwater construction skills, you get a sweet collaboration. But it’s not often that the two separate Seabee units have ...

Bulldozers come first. This slogan crystallizes the role that engineering and construction played in World War II, where combatants were far more mobile than in previous conflicts. Wartime plants for ...

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Mike Rowe’s “Somebody’s Gotta Do It” airs at 9 p.m. ET/PT Thursdays on CNN. Can a bridge be built in less than an hour? If you’re a member of the Navy’s Seabees, it can – along with makeshift ...

When the U.S. Marines stormed ashore at Iwo Jima, the Seabees swarmed in with them, armed and ready to fight, if needed. In the early days of the assault there was no opportunity for the Seabees to ...