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At first teams were called Seabee Technical Assistance Teams (STAT) and were restricted to two in theater at a time. Teams after STAT 1104 were renamed Seabee Teams and by 1969 there were 17 in theater. [158] As a military force Seabee Teams received many awards for heroism. [159] Teams were sent to other nations as well.
The United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the U.S. Navy 's primary special operations force and a component of the Naval Special Warfare Command. Among the SEALs' main functions are conducting small-unit special operation missions in maritime, jungle, urban, arctic, mountainous, and desert ...
The Seabees of the 27th CB alone, logged 2.550 diving hours with 1,345 classified as "extra hazardous". [27] Seabee Underwater Demolition Teams were swimmers during WWII, but postwar transitioned to divers. Another historic note to the Seabees is that they had African American divers in the 34th CB.
Admiral Turner ordered the formation of nine teams, six for VAC and three for III Amphibious Corps. Seabees made up the majority of the men in teams 1–9, 13 and 15. The officers of those teams were primarily CEC [22] (Seabees). UDT 2 was sent to Roi-Namur where Lt. Crist would earn a Silver Star.
The Seabee team consisted of nine Seabees including one officer. Shields and Seabee Team 1104 deployed to Saigon , Republic of Vietnam arriving on February 1, 1965. On March 28, Seabee Team 1104 was assigned to construct a U.S. Army Special Forces Camp at Ben Soi, completing their construction work on June 3. [ 2 ]
Seabee Teams. 1105 Pleiku Special Forces Det. A-334A ( July-Dec) 1965, When team 1105 left Pleiku on December 23 the" Seabee Team Program in support of the U.S. Army Special Forces and Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG) Program" came to an end. [31] MMT Thailand (During 1965 the Seabees had 5 "Mobile Training Teams" for well drilling.
US Navy 040510-F-5855M-061 Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Five (NMCB-5) and Thailand Army soldiers work together to build a community center in Ban Poon Suk, Thailand in 2004 US Navy 060821-N-7770P-002 A team of U.S. Navy Seabees from NMCB 5, attached to Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa (CJTF HOA), set up tents ...
In 2012, NMCB Four made history in Afghanistan at the Air Field. There eight women were tasked as the first all-female Seabee detail to build two 20 by 32-foot B-huts. It was done in support of the village stability platform in Malozai, Helmand province. Women first joined the Seabees in 1972 and by 1994 were deploying alongside men. [21]