remembers the role he and his fellow Seabees played during the buildup of forces in the first Gulf War. (Photo: Anthony Plascencia) COURTESY PHOTO David Sasek, a retired Navy officer and current ...

1991 Persian Gulf War: More than 5,000 Seabees served in the Middle East, building camps and 6 million square feet of aircraft parking. 1992: In Somalia, established base camps at humanitarian ...

But that changed after the Gulf War, when he served as a Seabee in the US Navy in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia working construction projects. He says his ability to do his job has steadily declined ...

American engineers set to work in 1942 to upgrade the limited 800-mile railway extending north from the small port of Bandar Shahpur on the Persian Gulf ... World War II; 325,000 were Seabees ...

With the motto "Can Do," Navy Seabees have been seen in some of the world's most troubled hotspots. From the islands of both theaters of World War II to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan ...

Command Master Chief Kristi Thrift said in a service news release. During World War II, the Seabees built over 400 advance bases, 111 major airfields, 441 piers, 2,558 ordnance magazines ...