Last of NMCB-3’s Seabees return from Iraq

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Last of NMCB-3’s Seabees return from Iraq
Staff report
Posted : Thursday Oct 23, 2008 6:32:26 EDT

SAN DIEGO — The last groups from a Navy Seabee battalion are returning home to California this week, marking the end to their latest deployment to Iraq.

The final group with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 3 is scheduled to return to Ventura County Naval Base on Thursday afternoon, according to Chief Mass Communications Specialist Shane Montgomery, a spokesman with the 30th Naval Construction Regiment at Port Hueneme.

The battalion’s Seabees deployed to Iraq to support Multinational Forces-West, where they helped provide security for military convoys. Their engineering projects included the assembly of a 1,063-foot-long floating steel bridge across the Euphrates River in Habbiniyah as well as other utility and construction projects in Anbar province, including the renovation of buildings at Camp Ramadi.


Article at: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/10/navy_seabees_return_102208/%2e