United States Navy Mobile Construction Battalion 1, "The Pioneers". The NMCB 1 has a prominent history as the first Naval Construction Battalion that become known as the Seabees. On March 15, 1942,...
Naval Construction Battalion 1 was commissioned on 15 March 1942, the first of the battalions that became the Seabees, and it shipped out before anyone was calling them Seabees. That is the big red 1...