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Their primary roles have been building bases, airstrips, roadways as well as many other construction projects in both combat and noncombat. Navy mobile construction battalion nmcb 3 military patch oif the leaders 0607 seabee. Seabees construction battalions and related patches. They were still on that island when japan surrendered last august. During the battalions time in vietnam, it became the first seabee battalion to operate in the three lower divisions of the republic of vietnam corps tactical zones ii, iii, iv.
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