Naval Construction Battalion Center Port Hueneme

Naval Construction Battalion Center Port Hueneme is the West Coast homeport of the Navy’s Seabees (from "C.B.", the initials for "Construction Battalion"). Port Hueneme (pronounced "Why-nee-mee"), supports the training and mobilization requirements for more than 2,600 active-duty personnel. The CBC also operates 1,600-acre (6.5 km²) Naval Base Ventura County, Port Hueneme. The CBC is located on the vast agricultural Oxnard Plain, about 60 miles (97 km) northwest of Los Angeles, on the Southern California coast.

Tenant Commands

• Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 3
• Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4
• Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5
• Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 40
• Underwater Construction Team 2
• 1st Naval Construction Regiment
• 30th Naval Construction Regiment
• 31st Seabee Readiness Group

U.S. Navy Seabee Museum

Located on Naval Base Ventura County is the U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, one of fifteen official U.S. Navy museums.^[1] The museum is the principal repository for the Seabees’ operational history. The Seabee Archive contains various operational records, battalion histories, manuscripts, oral histories, biographies, and personal papers pertaining to the Seabees.^[1]

See also

• Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (all NMCBs)
• Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1
• Amphibious Construction Battalion One (ACB-1)
• Amphibious Construction Battalion Two (ACB-2) – Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek#Major shore commands (at "Naval Construction Force")

Footnotes

External links

• Naval Base Ventura County website