Celebrating The Seabee Birthday Online

Hello!...if you are a Seabee it's a must!

It's your birthday and ALL must celebrate on their birthday! Score: You get your real day and March 5th!

They don't really need a reason to celebrate, they are natural party animals!!

March 5, 1942 all Construction Battalion personnel were officially named Seabees by the Navy Department. Rear Admiral Ben Moreell personally furnished them with their motto Construmus Batumius, or We Build, We Fight.

In 1942, at the Naval Air Base in Quonset Point, Frank Iafrate, a native of North Providence, Rhode Island, and a civilian file clerk with a talent for caricature, created the insignia that would make military history.

June, 1942 the Davisville, RI Advanced Base depot became operational.

July 1942, the first Naval Construction Battalion landed on Midway Island to begin work on the new airstrip on Sand Island and to start the massive clean up of damage caused by Japanese bombing.

December 1945, the Advanced Base Depot and Naval Construction Training Center were closed with only 3,300 Seabees on active duty by June 1950.

(1943)
Words by Sam M. Lewis
Music by Peter de Rose

We're the Seabees of the Navy
We can build and we can fight
We'll pave the way to victory
And guard it day and night
And we promise that we remember
The "Seventh of December"

We're the Seabees of the Navy
Bees of the Seven Seas

The Navy wanted men
That's where we came in
Mister Brown and Mister Jones
the Owens, Cohens, and Flynn
The Navy wanted more
Of uncle Sammy's kin
So we all joined up
And brother we're in to win

Music by the U.S. Navy Band

Information and picture gleaned from Seabee Museum and Memorial Park, please DONATE to the project today!

- Bee's Knee's perfect mix of sweet and sour!

- New Bee's Knee's has a twist on the original...lavender

- Killer Bees whoa...Jagermeister anyone?

- Bees Kiss yummy and SWAK!

- Queen Bee don't ask, don't tell :)

August 8, 1951 CBC Davisville was reestablished.

1951, landing at Inchon, they provided pontoon causeways within hours of the initial assault. Served side by side with the Marine Corps and the Army, building and defending what they built.

October 02, 1951-1956 during the Korean War the Navy realized they needed a naval air station and Cubi Point in the Philippines was selected. Civilian contractors seeing the forbidding Zambales Mountains and the maze of jungle claimed it could not be done. The Navy's Construction team's were called to the task and cut a mountain in half to make way for a nearly two-mile long runway. Cubi Point turned out to be one of the largest earthmoving projects in the world, equivalent to the construction of the Panama Canal.

1955, as part of Operation Deepfreeze in Antarctica, they provided logistic support for the scientific research programs that were conducted by seventy American universities, government agencies, and industrial firms.

July 25, 1956 the $100 million facility at Cubi Point in the Philippines was commissioned and comprised an air station and an adjacent pier that was capable of docking the Navy's largest carriers.

1962, the Navy's builders constructed Antarctica's first nuclear power plant at McMurdo Station.

My husband had this tucked into his notebook and asked that I include it here. Enjoy!

♥ Between the awkwardness of a soldier and the dignity of a Marine, there is a questionable character called a Seabee.

♥ Seabees come in assorted sizes, shapes and weights, but all have the same code: To enjoy every second of every hour of every day, at work or play, and to protest by griping -- their most beloved privilege -- when issued an order.

♥ Seabees are found everywhere: On top of, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around, or more likely than not, "turning to".

♥ Mothers and sweethearts love them, fathers are proud of them, brothers look up to them, sisters admire them, airdales dislike them, company commanders tolerate them and chief petty officers drive them.

♥ He likes: Liberty, leave, holidays, weekends, girls, chow, beer, movies, gedonks, swimming, pin-ups, sleep and comic books. He isn't too hot for: Duty nights, watches, taps, reveille, routine discipline, officers, drills or secured heads,

♥ A Seabee is a magical creature: You can chew him out but you can't get the work done without him: He is oftentimes dirty, unpolished and unkept, sometimes overbearing and many times reluctant.

♥ A Seabee is a man of magical abilities: He can weld, build, drive, repair and fight: He can wreck or he can beautify and is known for making something out of nothing. Work never tires him nor does he seem to tire of it.

♥ His motto is "can do", to which he has added "has done" and "did", this miraculous record being recognized in the form of "well done" by everyone from the commanding officer on down.

♥ The average Seabee is a thick-headed individual of a variety of nationalities. He won't admit it anywhere to anyone, except in the defense of his Corps, that his is the best job in the Navy.

♥ Without him, the fleet would have nothing to gripe about, Marines would have nothing to talk about -- and history would have nothing to write about!

~Anonymous

May, 1965 the first Battalions went across the beach at Chu Lai, Republic of Vietnam. They numbered 10,000 men and during the peak of the Vietnam conflict their strength reached 25,000 men in 22 Battalions, two Regiments, two Maintenance Units, and scores of Civic Action Teams.

1968 TET, The Navy Builders from Phu Bai were summoned to rebuild and repair two vitally needed concrete bridges. When enemy snipers drove them from their work, they organized their own combat teams which silenced the snipers and let them complete their important task.

1971, they began their largest peacetime construction project, on Diego Garcia, an atoll in the Indian Ocean. The project lasted 11 years and cost $200 million. The base accommodates the Navy's largest ships and biggest military cargo jets, and proved invaluable during Operation Desert Shield/Operation Desert Storm.

November, 1983 a 42-man detail from Mobile Construction Battalion ONE was ordered to Beirut to build underground bunkers for the Marines after the October 1983 explosion killed 241 and seriously wounded 80 others.

Today, they continue to play a major role in the Global War on Terrorism. In support of Operation Enduring Freedom, they've repaired runway facilities at Camp Rhino and Kandahar in Afghanistan. Twenty-six units deployed to Kuwait and Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and 15 were killed. The construction of multiple 20-acre aircraft-parking aprons, munitions storage areas, a 48,000-square-foot concrete pad, bridges, a 1,200-person camp and repaired various roads have been proven invaluable to coalition forces.

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