During my initial office call with Major General John Kelly, Commander, MNF-W, he set the stage to reduce engineer force structure at the end of 1 NCR’s deployment. One of the major focus areas post-mobilization was integrating the newly assigned staff into the regiment and providing them with training for their new assignments.Īrriving in Al Anbar Province, 1 st NCR relieved the 22 nd NCR and with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 7, NMCB-27, 7 th Marine Engineer Support Battalion (7 th ESB), and the 341 st Army Engineer Company began providing general construction support and convoy security across Al Anbar Province in early September 2008. The regiment mobilized in June to Naval Base Ventura County Port Hueneme to complete training and certify the unit for deployment. Training started in earnest in early March with the regiment participating in Exercise Key Resolve and conducting follow on command post exercises. The regiment had begun preparations to deploy in the fall of 2007 building a robust training and certification schedule and working with Naval Construction Force and Navy Reserve Staff to fill empty billets and required staff augments for the deployment. The First Naval Construction Regiment (1 st NCR) deployed to Al Anbar Province in August 2008 to provide engineering command and control in support of I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) (I MEF FWD) and Multi-National Forces West (MNF-W). NMCB-7 is deployed to Afghanistan to provide contingency construction support to Alliance forces supporting NATO International Security Assistance Forces. 25, 2009) Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 7 place dirt into Hescoe protective barriers utilizing an up-armored excavator at a forward operating base. By CAPT Jim Schroeder, CEC, USN (ret.), former Commander, First Naval Construction Regiment HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan (Jan.
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