PORT HUENEME : Seabees to Check Travel Readiness
Top Seabee commanders have ordered the Naval Construction Battalion at Port Hueneme to check its gear in case the Seabees are needed to join the Marines that were ordered Friday to protect relief convoys in famine-stricken Somalia, base spokeswoman Linda Wadley said.
The Seabees, who often accompany Marines into the field to build bridges, runways, encampments and galleys, have not received orders to gear up, merely to assess their readiness to go, Wadley said.
“They’re taking a look at the resources the Seabees use . . . to see what’s on line, in the event we are asked to go to Somalia,” Wadley said, adding that the Seabees “are being considered in part of the planning process.”
The Port Hueneme base has two battalions of 600 Seabees each and two more battalions stationed overseas that could be deployed as they were in Operation Desert Storm.
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