The Seabees don’t look a day over 78. On March 7, a local chapter of the Seabee veterans group will be celebrating the special unit’s 78th anniversary with a birthday celebration at the Missouri’s ...

Happy birthday to the team responsible for helping nearly every military project get off the ground! Of course, we're talking about the Seabees. The Seabees were established on March 5, 1942. So, each ...

David H. Lyman, like a good number of potential draftees in the 1960s, joined the military reserves in a desire to stay out of Vietnam during the war. Ironically, he ended up in Vietnam as a member of ...

In November of 1966, Petty Officer 3rd Class Leroy Henderson and his Seabees platoon, along with a unit of U.S. Marines, were in between a rock and hard place near Phu Bai, South Vietnam. “For the ...

AUGUSTA, Kan. (KSNW) — Ray Brown grew up in tiny Brainerd, Kansas, and later, he lived in Potwin for over 45 years. In between, he joined the Navy at the age of 19 and served as a Seabee during two ...

This is for real.” When Ziegler first arrived in Vietnam, he thought the Seabees would set up temporary camps, but he soon realized all the buildings were permanent structures. This was not a ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Alfred Perez joined the Navy, but he never stepped foot on a ship. He was never on the ocean, either. However, he was a “busy bee” during two tours to Vietnam in the late 1960s.