After 75 Years, The Seabees Show No Signs Of Slowing Down
By Matthew Olay
on March 4, 2017
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The Navy’s “Construction Battalions” were founded 75 years ago this week.
Thirty-seven years old.
By the time most American men reached that age back in 1941, they had already started families, bought their own homes, and had settled into their careers. In fact, with life expectancy being a mere 61 years old back then, they were already past the point of mid-life.
But when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7 of that year and the United States was thrust into war, the call went out for skilled tradesmen to join the Navy, so as to become part of the sea service’s first construction battalions. These battalions would be used to replace the Navy’s then-endangered overseas civilian workforce with a new breed of warrior-builder, one who would not only build the bridges and pave the roads in support of America’s combat forces, but who would also be able to fight back when coming under fire.
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