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We build, we fight, we visit museums

August 28th, 2009 | Seabees Shore duty The Middle East | Posted by Phil Ewing

BU3 Adrian Trollip, of NCB 5, worked on a roof at Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan May 13 // Cpl. Aaron Rooks/ Marine Corps

BU3 Adrian Trollip, of NMCB 5, worked on a roof at Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan May 13 // Cpl. Aaron Rooks/ Marine Corps

As Scoop Deck learned during a recent visit to the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, you can’t swing a reporter’s notebook when you’re downrange without hitting Seabees at work on projects for the war effort. They were at Camp Eggers, in Kabul, Afghanistan; they were at Camp Leatherneck; and at Kandahar Air Field, putting up their trademark wooden buildings in record time. A tour of the Seabees’ new U.S. forces building in Kandahar was especially pleasant; even though it was unfinished, its air conditioning provided an oasis from the heat and the wafting aroma from KAF’s infamous “poop pond.”

So it was great to hear about some other new construction taking place in the Seabee world: Workers broke ground this week on a new home for the Seabee Museum outside Naval Base Ventura County, Calif., the Navy announced. And not that the wooden clubhouse-style buildings at Camp Leatherneck weren’t nice, but the designs for the new Seabee Museum make it look especially luxurious.

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  1. The Scoop Deck » We build, we fight, we visit museums | deckroom Says:
    August 28th, 2009 at 1:11 pm

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  2. Val A Herod Says:
    September 15th, 2009 at 4:09 pm

    Thanks for the news of mcb5. I was with them in “nam” & okinawa. Send info of mcb27 if you have any, since I joined them in ‘77 for 20 yrs. Thanks for your reply.

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