Photo by MC1 Charles Panter / NMCB 4
At the Naval Base Ventura County, Point Mugu, flightline earlier this month, BUCN Nathan Soliz, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 4, loads an aircraft with baggage for Seabees who are deploying to the Horn of Africa.
Photo by MC1 Charles Panter / NMCB 4
CE3 Jordan Tuck, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 4, plays a video game earlier this month in the theater at Naval Base Ventura County, Point Mugu, while waiting for his flight to the Horn of Africa. NMCB 4 is currently deployed over the European Command and African Command areas of responsibility in support of infrastructural construction operations.
Photo by MC1 Charles Panter / NMCB 4
Volunteers from the Ventura County chapter of the American Red Cross serve snacks to Seabees deploying to the Horn of Africa prior to their flight earlier this month.
Photo by MC2 Travis Alston / NMCB 4
The command flag for Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 4 is raised Feb. 14 during a transfer of authority ceremony at Camp Mitchell, Naval Station Rota, Spain.
ROTA, Spain — Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1, homeported in Gulfport, Miss., transferred authority of Camp Mitchell and ongoing Seabee missions throughout Europe and Africa to NMCB 4, homeported in Port Hueneme, during a transfer of authority (TOA) ceremony held aboard Naval Station Rota, Spain, Feb. 14.
During the ceremony, Cmdr. Chad Brooks, commanding officer of NMCB 1, exchanged salutes with Cmdr. Jeffrey Kilian, commander of NMCB 4, in front of Capt. Gregory Sandway, commodore of Combined Task Force (CTF) 68. The ceremony marked the official end of NMCB 1’s deployment to Europe and Africa, which began in August.
Sandway offered some words of advice to NMCB 4.
“You have a very impressive record that you’re coming in with,” he told the battalion. “Energize and utilize the expertise that you have. We can enable, do better and do more. It goes right in line with the Seabee ‘Can Do’ spirit that I know you have. We’re not a ship, we’re not a submarine, we’re not an aircraft; but we do everything else. You guys play a vital role in this. I look forward to your expeditionary strength that you bring and your combat enabling. Hooyah.”
Kilian spoke of the projects NMCB 4 will tackle as its deployment in Europe begins.
“It’s time to get started,” he said. “The team is ready.”
Kilian said NMCB 4’s goal is to “provide exceptional operations support to our supporting commanders, to be safe and to execute quality construction.”
“It’s plain and simple,” he said. “It’s time to go to work.”
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