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MCB-11 History Overview |
This book titled "Family of 11th Seabee
Battalions" not only records the history of one of the best families of
Seabee battalions (11th NCB and NMCB 11), it tells the stories of the over
8,500 men who served during the 19-1/2 years it existed. In this book you
will find the colorful, first hand, heroic history if it's men. In the
true Seabee "Can Do" spirit, we have the complete history of the Battalion
from World War II to Vietnam. A shortened history of the Battalion is
contained on the MCB-11 Association WebSite for your quick review.
The history contains a listing of the various
deployment sites, significant construction projects, detachments and
details deployed by the battalion including it's Seabee teams, related
military events surrounding the deployment sites, brief history of the
islands where the Seabees served, Seabee vocabulary and lingo, humor,
memories, battles, berthing and eating arrangements, names and accounts of
it's sailing ships, and the first hand and personal accounts of the men
who were there. It is a powerful story that needs to be told for the men
who served her and their families and descendants who often ask: "What did
you do in the Seabees?" A brief biography of all active MCB-11
Association Members who submitted information to the editor is included in
the history so one can see what they did in life after their days in the
Seabees.
It includes the story of Marvin Glen Shields,
Seabee, age 26, who was a posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor and
his teammates of Seabee Team 1104 deployed to Dong Xoai, Vietnam, during a
fateful day in June 1965.
It is the story started when the fourteen
founding members of the "MCB-11 Association" met in a small hotel room in
Port Hueneme, California, in July 2001, and who decided that the proud
traditions of MCB-11 should not die. That gathering of a small Seabee
"band of brothers" has grown to a formal organization of over 165 members.
That membership includes a former member of NMCB-11, Bruce Geibel, who
served as a junior officer with the battalion in Vietnam and Thailand from
1966-1968, and who volunteered as editor to pull the history together.
The book contains the following battalion
information in chapters and appendices:
Cover Sheet
Copyright Sheet Dedication Table of Contents Foreword Acknowlegements Introduction Chapter 1. Brief History of the Founding of the Seabees Chapter 2. Military Training & Advance Base Training Camps Chapter 3. Birthplace, Makeup and Deployment of the Seabees Chapter 4. Birth of 11th Naval Construction Battalion Chapter 5. World War II - 1942-1945 Chapter 6. Birth of NMCB 11 - Korean War Era - 1953 Chapter 7. Peacetime - Cold War - 1953-65 Chapter 8. Vietnam War Deployments - 1966-1969 Appendix A. Seabee Teams Appendix B. Seabee Claims, Exaggerations, Mythology & Facts Appendix C. Medals & Awards - Unit and Personal Appendix D. Who's Who in MCB-11 Association Appendix E. Vocabulary, Acronyms, Abbreviations & Lingo Appendix F. Seabees & CEC Officers of 11th NCB & NMCB 11 Photographs Alphabetical Index Sources |
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