Naval mobile construction battalion



There are 9 active-duty naval mobile construction battalions (NMCBs) — known as C.B.'s ("Seabees") — in the United States Navy, split between the east and west coasts. The remaining battalions are Navy Reserve battalions:

West Coast (Port Hueneme, California)

 * NMCB 3 ("Better Than Best")
 * NMCB 4 ('"4" Does More') (also "Fab-4" while in Davisville)
 * NMCB-5 ("The Professionals")
 * NMCB-40 ("Fighting Forty") – decommissioned

East Coast (Gulfport, Mississippi)

 * NMCB-1 ("The First and The Finest")("Also known as The BONE")unofficial
 * NMCB-7 ("Magnificent Seven") – decommissioned
 * NMCB-11 ("Lucky Eleven")
 * NMCB-74 ("Fearless 74") (Also called "Eager Beavers" in the 1980s)
 * NMCB-133 ("Runnin' Roos")
 * NMCB-62 ("The Minute Men") Unofficial("Sixty Screw") – decommissioned

Naval Reserve

 * NMCB-14 ("Southern Pride"): Located at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida and consists of detachments in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Puerto Rico.
 * NMCB-15 ("Bat Out of Hell"): Located at Belton, Missouri. Personnel are from ten detachments in five states, (Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota).
 * NMCB-16 : Located at Los Alamitos, California and consited of detachments in California, Arizona, and Nevada. (decommissioned Sep 94)
 * NMCB-17 ("Desert Battalion"): Located at Fort Carson, Colorado and consists of detachments in California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Hawaii.
 * NMCB-18 ("Skookum Mamook"): Headquartered at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington and consists of detachments in Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, and Guam.
 * NMCB-21 ("Blackjack Battalion"): Located at the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey.
 * NMCB-22 ("Lone Star"): Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. The battalion has detachments throughout Texas and one in Oklahoma.
 * NMCB-23 ("Blue and Grey"): RSS located at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
 * NMCB-24 ("The Double Dozen", formerly known as the "Dixie Doers"): RSS located at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama and consists of detachments in Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia.
 * NMCB-25 ("Spades and Clubs"): Located at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin and consists of Seabee detachments from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, North Dakota, Iowa, and Michigan.
 * NMCB-26 ("Packs a Punch"): Located at Selfridge Air National Guard Base near Mt. Clemens, Michigan and includes detachments in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.
 * NMCB-27 ("Skibees"): Cold Weather Battalion, located at Westover ARB, Chicopee, Massachusetts and includes detachments in six New England States and upstate New York.
 * NMCB-28 ("The Old Pros"): Located at Barksdale AFB, LA and includes detachments in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas.