Seabees - Backbone of the Navy (Marine Reacts)

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[johnhelton]

I'm a discharged Seabee. I would say one of the most challenging aspects was that Navy initial level training is fleet based and has zero to do with being a Seabee. All of a sudden you get a psychotic infantry Gunny attached to your battalion and a bunch of senior enlisted Seabees overseeing your combat training. Getting out of the Sailor conditioning and mentality after Navy bootcamp and having to learn to hump long distances, qualify and use many types of weapons, learn your actual job, how to defend yourself, and get your body and mind conditioned enough to do hard labor in combat zones wearing body armor was a challenge.

[TheDivingBee]

So I am a SeaBee. I came in as a BU(Builder) now I’m also a Padi Diver. but what’s cool is you can combine the two in the navy. Now We have a special dive unit (Underwater Construction Team). So we have 7 different Rates (MOS) which are SeaBee’s. They are BU(Builder), SW(Steel WORKER which is a welder ) UT (Utilities man) (they work on HVAC and plumbing), EO(Equipment Operator), EA(Engineering Aid), CE(Construction electrician), and CM (Construction mechanic). The Fleet NAVY hates us because they don’t understand us. Our first DI’s for the original SeaBee’s were all Marine Corps instructors. So a lot of our traditions are seeped in Marine tradition as well a lot of our SOPs come from the Corps. We will build and maintain a base anywhere in the world on 17hrs notice. We build and maintain air Strips as well. We have CSE (Convoy Security Element) you have a Company of SeaBee’s that head out on Patrol’s or we Recon a area for a build site. You just don’t plop a FOB down. So we do our own Recon. In UCT we work on ports in the last 10 years we took over the old UDT mission and do swallow water demo. It’s a very rewarding rate. You work with The Army, Marines, and everyone else. For many years thru out the GWOT Army SF request us on site. You can come to special programs as a diver. Or work with the SEAL teams and even screen for DevGru. We are the in between sailors not Marines but we avoid ships (unless your on a Amphib with Marines) we are dirt sailors!!!!

[tangoindiamike]

As a retired Navy Seabee, who trained with the Marines substantially, I've often told people, the best way to describe a Seabee, is a Marine that builds things too, minus some of the heavy firepower like tanks and artillery. We do have small arms, mortars, anti-tank weapons, and crew served weapons (machine guns). The Marines understand us better than the fleet. We form up in battalions and have dirt in our teeth. Marines understand that. Our Air Detachment landed in South Korea just before dark, for Team Spirit '87. After a brief indoctrination, it WAS dark...and we went to work. The next morning, when the marines rolled out of their cots, they were surprised to see a fully operational advanced based, built overnight. Some of them said they cursed us all night, because of our equipment, light plants, generators, and power tools running. But when they saw we had built a field galley with a hot meal ready for them, all was forgiven. Oh yeah, hot showers too! Oorah!...and Semper Gumby (Always Flexible)!

[jamesbacon]

Old WW2 SAYING:"Be nice to Seabees, they might be your dad."
Thing was, younger men were drafted for infantry. Older men were drafted for SEABEES and Engineers because they've already been doing that construction/concrete/heavy equipment jobs

[snicklerick]

I swore in as a Sea Bee yesterday. Proudest day of my life so far.

[DunbarSantiago]

When I was a Construction Electrician in the Seabees, the trick to digging your pit fast on FTX was getting the Alfa company (Equipment Operators and Mechanics) tents up first, cranking their generator and HVAC. Alfa is likely to take a few scoops out for you if you got their back and keep them cool in the south Mississippi heat!

[GySgt_USMC_Ret.]

I had a 3 year tour at a Seabee base. The Seabees train and work hard. Much respect.

Fair winds and following seas to all.

[sangreevolver]

It amazes me how bad ass a equipment operator and a carpenter even others can run a gun and build the coolest things at the same time.

[hayvern]

Seabees! Because Marines need heroes too!

[RAS_Squints]

I had an Seabee as a RDC in bootcamp. After graduation, I asked him how is ship life in the fleet. He told me, go out and see, because he has never been on one.

[KillboyMetalhead]

In early 91’ I was a fresh Lance Corporal and was assigned to a work duty detail for 2 weeks helping the Seabees, at Al Mishab, Saudi. Hardest working sumbitches I ever met in my 6 years of active duty. Made an indelible impression on me that I still talk about today, 30 years later. Semper Fi, Seabees...much respect.

[codypresson]

My dad was a Seabee and now I’m a marine. Keeping up the family tradition of service.

[andaltargren]

I’m a BU in the Seabees right now. Mainly the most challenging part about our job is waking up in the morning.

[michaeloreagan]

My great grandfather was a seabee in ww2. 302nd naval construction battalion, his unit participated in 8 invasions in the pacific. I still have his purple heart. He is my hero even though I never got to meet him.

[bluestateconservative.]

My Uncle Jim was a SeaBee in Vietnam. He loved what he did and when he got out he drove truck cross country for years. He was a proud American.

[jacobcorrell]

I'm a former Steel worker (SW) Seabee that was in NMCB11, the best years of my life. The most challenging part was having outdated equipment or not enough bodies for a job, but that never stopped us from doing the job. We always completed our mission a head of schedule.

[theAverageJoe]

My Grandfather was part of the original batches of SeeBees in WW2, he built runways, warehouses, hospitals etc I’m proud to be his grandson, wish I could have met him

[definitelynotthefbi]

Pretty cool seeing something on Seabees, my history teacher was a Seabee.

[unknownsolider]

My dad works for DOD and his friend is in Bahrain and I got a seabees patch.

[kevincottiers]

I am currently a Seabee. This video highlights our biggest training evolution in our homeport cycle. My rate (MOS) is Utilitiesman, during FTX I was tasked with doing a recon for a suitable water source, then assisted in coordinating and leading the mission to purify it and make it potable for our fob. It was very rewarding after it was all said and done. My UT2 got a NAM and I got a challenge coin from doing so well during this process.