Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 11

The unit was formed during World War II as the 11th Naval Construction Battalion at Camp Allen on 28 June 1942.

Eleven's fourth Seabee Technical Assistance Team (STAT) was sent to a Special Forces camp near the junction of two jungle routes, one called the Ho Chi Minh trail.

The battalion's 1967 tour exposed the men to the most severe combat the Seabees had seen since World War II.

It has also undertaken international engagement activities in the Pacific, and supported the relief efforts of Hurricane Sandy.

Homeport for NMCB 11 is NCBC Gulfport Mississippi From Camp Bradford, the battalion caught a train to the Advance Base Depot, Port Hueneme.

On Los Negros Island 11 built the operational home for the 2nd NCR and started a Lion for the 7th Fleet.

Projects the 11th had were the construction of three repair bases on Seeadler Harbor for seaplanes,[8] landing craft, and the fleet.

These included the completion of an Amphibious Training Center, Advance Base Construction Depot,[9] a 400' marine railway.

Instead, her first deployment returned the battalion to its last World War II duty station, Subic Bay.

[15] Sent to Midway Island in December 1961, the battalion worked on a seaplane ramp, the station's roads, as well as civilian and military housing.

In 1965 MCB 11 had two Seabee teams sent behind the Iron Curtain to deal with a bug problem the State Department had discovered in U.S.

The USN from "United States Naval" Mobile Construction Battalions was changed to U.S. and the N was moved to the "MCB" creating the "NMCBs" that exist today.

Eleven was classified as the first "SMART Battalion", and instituted many of the initiatives and changes being implemented to improve NCF operations.

According to the battalions webpage, "NMCB ELEVEN is tasked with providing advance base construction, battle damage repair, contingency engineering, humanitarian assistance and disaster recovery support to our fleet and unified commanders.

When the battalion was reactivated the first time, a pair of dice showing eleven was adopted for the unit insignia[41] That design had no Seabee on it.

NMCB 11 commissioning (USN)
WWII 11th CB insignia. [ 1 ] It is a classic example of late Deco Streamline Moderne design. In 1944 the insignia was revised by the listing of all the deployment sites that was still style sensitive to the original design. Another revision followed adding naval icons around the border. (USN)
Lombrum Point ship repair dock, Los Negros built by 11 NCB (USN)
11's Dam
CAP CB 11
Cover of BUDOCKS Technical Digest No51 with MCB 11 crew pouring the top of a low level reservoir at Cubi Point , Bataan, Philippines. The photo is an iconic Seabee image. [ 14 ] (USN)
MCB 11 insignia 1953–55. It appears on the cover of the 1953–54 cruise-book, minus the words, just the number 11 and two dice. (Seabee Museum)
Builder 3rd Class Amy Higgins with NMCB 11's Air Det in Afghanistan, builds a Southwest Asia hut.
NMCB 11 boards a CH-47 Chinook for transport to Special Forces projects in Afghanistan 2009.
NMCB-11 at the firing range at Camp Leatherneck.
NMCB 11 at BEMBEREKE, Benin, June 14, 2009. UT3 Terrell L. Green receives a new batch of cement. While deployed to Rota, Spain NMCB-11 was tasked to Exercise SHARED ACCORD 2009. The exercise was a bilateral field training exercise conducting small unit infantry and staff training with the Beninese military. Humanitarian and civil assistance projects ran concurrent with the exercise.(USMC)
NMCB 11 drilled 3 wells in Cambodia for the Pacific Partnership 2010 in conjunction with the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19)
NMCB 11 at Rota 2015 (USN)