CBU(Construction Battalion Units)ThesesThe armed forces are facing challenges to maintain operational readiness with fewer personnel and leaner operating capital due to shrinking defense budgets. One way to optimize personnel assets is to provide effective, high quality training. Quality training programs ...
“Minesweepers, missile and assault boats, small missile and anti-submarine ships — the majority still of Soviet construction — followed the small boats. Frigate ‘Admiral Makarov,’ corvette ‘Stoykiy,’ large assault ship ‘Minsk’ and diesel-electric submarine (DEPL) ‘Dmitrov,’ that is 2...
Some 311 feet long overall, they were all-welded construction to facilitate rapid building. Best yet, they could be made for the bargain price of about $7 million in 1944 dollars (just $100 million when adjusted for today’s inflation) and completed from keel laying to commissioning in about...
Professional achievement in the superior performance of his duties while serving as Leading Petty Officer, Air Detachment, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Twenty-Two, during Field Training Exercise, Operation Bearing Duel, Fort Hunter-Liggett, California from 06 April 2015 to 26 April 2015. His ou...
On 6 June 1943, LCDR Kaufmann established Naval Combat Demolition Unit training at Ft. Pierce, Florida. Most of Kauffman’s volunteers came from the Navy’s engineering and construction battalions. Training commenced with one grueling week designed to eliminate the men from the boys. Some said ...
Gulfport Battalion Center deals with the general military construction, regardless of the location. The troops working in this battalion are often referred to as the Seabees. The name comes from the group initials – CB. The reputation of this group is huge. It is responsible for building both...
Michael Murphy Navy Seal Museum was awarded $300,000 to support the first phase of the construction of an institution in West Sayville. Organizations share $2.2M in history program funding All 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped for more than two weeks deep inside a flood Thai cave have...
marking plan that resulted in zero lost or misplaced bags. He also carefully organized a squadron-spaces turnover that included key facility maintenance actions, to be concurrently completed while deployed, thus saving the squadron the hardship of working around construction during normal stateside ...
‘Rotterdam’, provide the backbone of this amphibious capability. In addition to this the order for a second landing ship will provide full amphibious capability, given their capability of carrying two battalion sized units, including their vehicles and heavy equipment whilst providing the vital ...
Along for the journey were a number of military units from across Western Canada, including 12 Field Ambulance, 39 Service Battalion and HMCS Discovery. About CFD Masset The arrival of the Sappers and other support trades to Masset was a bit of a throwback to when there was a much larger...