PORT HUENEME – Naval construction battalions at Naval Base Ventura County are breaking ground Monday morning on a $12 million U.S. Seabee Museum. The 35,000-square-foot museum funded by the Civil ...
WASHINGTON — The Seabee museum in California has everything military buffs could want to know about the construction experts’ 63-year history, but since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, fewer ...
JUAN CARLO/THE STAR Robyn King, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum curator, holds her monthly Curator's Corner, where she presents rare artifacts and explains the historical significance behind them. The Seabee ...
After 12 years of planning, private fundraising and construction, the new Seabee Museum opened its doors to the public on Friday at a ribbon-cutting ceremony honoring all of the volunteers and ...
The few civilians who trickle into the Seabee museum’s two rundown Quonset huts often come on the same plaintive quest: Grandpa has died and his kids want to see the kinds of tools he used, the guns ...
Fort Bragg is the home of the Army’s airborne and special operations forces, but on Sunday afternoon, those units took a back seat to a little publicized Navy force that has had a big impact over the ...
Bob Quinn was an officer in the Seabees in 1974 when he got the call: Manage a Vietnamese refugee camp in Guam. An engineer, Quinn didn’t know anything about running a refugee camp. But that was ...
NORTH KINGSTOWN — As Seabees are gearing up to deploy to Florida, more than 350 people gathered here on Saturday to celebrate the service's 75th anniversary. Although the Seabees, the construction ...