Yeah, it's pretty cool. You're put into an area like on the side of a mountain and told "we're going to put a schoolhouse here". Weeks later you're looking at it and asking - 'how the hell did we do that'? You really, really learn construction in the Seabees. Sometime you do it without power, calculators, or other devices. Then you do the geometry and building formulas on paper or in your head. I can pretty much look at something now and know what I'm going to run into when I go to build it.
That airstrip is Barakoma on Vella LaVella Island
p38l5lo 7 months ago
We build, We fight! My old unit added "we party" NMCB 12 and CBMU 202.
johnnyb357 1 year ago
I am going in the navy next month I am enlisted as and Eo equipment operator. HEll yeah SeaBees.
jonpaulsquarter 2 years ago
Those are actually pneumatic drills in the first scene used sometimes to bore holes in rock for dynamite.
Nato61 2 years ago
Yeah, it's pretty cool. You're put into an area like on the side of a mountain and told "we're going to put a schoolhouse here". Weeks later you're looking at it and asking - 'how the hell did we do that'? You really, really learn construction in the Seabees. Sometime you do it without power, calculators, or other devices. Then you do the geometry and building formulas on paper or in your head. I can pretty much look at something now and know what I'm going to run into when I go to build it.
drott5 3 years ago