Cool and congrats on joining the "Fighting Seabees".
My daughter who is 18 joined the Navy last November. She left for basic in Great Lakes on December 16th. We went to her basic graduation and it is a very proud moment for a parent. She did her A school at Sheppard Air Force base in Wichita Falls. She also chose the path of a Navy Seabee. She is actualy in town now for two weeks after she graduated A school before she reports to her battalion in Gulfport Mississippi. She is extrememly proud to be a Naval Seabee. She is a CE (construction electrician). In Gulfport they will learn many things that most Navy personel do not. They will learn combat skills such as firing M-16 weapons and others. They learn survival and many other things that the Marines do. They know that when the Marines go in first, that Seabees also go in with them. Seabees are actualy a special forces type unit in many cases. No not like the SEALS, but they specialty training as well as combat training. They are trained to fight as well as build. She tells me that she will never be on a ship lol. Anywhere they go they most likely fly there, or at least fly to the carrier that will send in the first troops. I am very proud of her as well as concerned for her safety. Her battalion ships to Baghdad in February. One side of me wishes she would not have been a CB so I could feel she would be safely out to sea. But the thing is, as with most of the young military personel, she wants to go there. She wants to help the Iraqi people.
Holy cow!!! I have just went on and on, well anyways, thanks for the post so that I could talk about how proud I am of my daughter and all of the men and women who serve.
The motto for the Seabees is
"We Build, We Fight"
