Naval Mobile Construction Battalion

Capt. Barbara Sisson watches over the smoky battleground while members of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion One Four (NMCB-14) execute an advance on enemy positions during a convoy training evolution.

There are 9 active-duty Naval Mobile Construction Battalions (NMCBs) — known as C.B.'s ("Seabees") — in the United States Navy, split between the east and west coasts. The remaining battalions are Naval Reserve battalions:

West Coast (Port Hueneme, California)

See also: Naval Construction Battalion Center Port Hueneme

• NMCB 3 ("Better Than Best")
• NMCB 4 ('"4" Does More') (also "Fab-4" while in Davisville)
• NMCB-5 ("The Professionals")
• NMCB-40 ("Fighting Forty")

East Coast (Gulfport, Mississippi)

• NMCB-1 ("The First and The Finest")
• NMCB-7 ("Magnificent 7")
• NMCB-11 ("Lucky Eleven")
• NMCB-74 ("Fearless 74")
• NMCB-133 ("Runnin' Roos")

Naval Reserve

• NMCB-14 ("Southern Pride"): Located at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida and consists of detachments in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Puerto Rico.
• NMCB-15 ("Bat Out of Hell"): Located at Belton, Missouri. Personnel are from ten detachments in five states, (Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota).
• NMCB-17 ("Desert Battalion"): Located at Fort Carson, Colorado and consists of detachments in California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Hawaii.
• NMCB-18 ("Skookum Mamook"): Headquartered at Fort Lewis, Washington.
• NMCB-21 ("Blackjack Battalion"): Located at the Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst, New Jersey.
• NMCB-22 ("Lone Star"): Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. The battalion has detachments throughout Texas and one in Oklahoma.
• NMCB-23 ("Blue and Grey"): RSS located at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
• NMCB-24 ("Dixie Doers"): Located out of Huntsville, Alabama and consists of detachments in Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia.
• NMCB-25 ("Spades and Clubs"): Located at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin and consists of Seabee detachments from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, North Dakota, Iowa, and Michigan.
• NMCB-26 ("Packs a Punch"): Located at Selfridge Air National Guard Base near Mt. Clemons, Michigan and includes detachments in Michigan and Ohio.
• NMCB-27 ("Skibees"): Cold Weather Battalion, located at Westover ARB, Chicopee, Massachusetts and includes detachments in six New England States and upstate New York.
• NMCB-28 ("The Old Pros"): Located at Barksdale AFB, LA and includes detachments in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas.

See also

• Amphibious Construction Battalion One (ACB-1)
• Amphibious Construction Battalion Two (ACB-2) – Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek#Major shore commands (at "Naval Construction Force")
• Seabee

External links

• Naval Mobile Construction Battalions (NMCB) (at www.seabee.navy.mil)

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