Seabees of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 11 took the final steps in re-establishing Camp Mitchell, Spain, as one of the main sites for NMCB deployments July 7.
NMCB 11 gathered in formation around the camp flagpole to present the battalion's colors for the first time as a unit in Rota, Spain. The battalion has been preparing for the return to Spain for the entirety of its six-month deployment.
The process began back in Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, where Seabees were tasked with closing down the camp to include retrograding civil engineer support equipment, tools, materials and facilities and returning control of the camp property back to the coalition forces land component command.
The next step was the offload of the Seabees' new Scalable, Modular, Agile, Responsive (SMART) P-25S Table of Allowance, a three-day ship offload that included more than 300 pieces of civil engineer support equipment and more than 150 ISO containers.
The final step came as the headquarter element arrived in Rota and brought the battalion's colors back to Camp Mitchell to complete the re-establishment process for the Seabees.
The Seabees have spent the better part of the last seven years in Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, providing support to local commanders in that area but more importantly were there to provide contingency construction support for joint forces working in and around Iraq and Afghanistan. With increasing missions in Africa, the Rota Seabee battalion will launch detachments and details to provide humanitarian civic assistance construction and exercise-related construction projects in European Command and Africa Command theaters of operation.
NMCB 11 Seabees are currently deployed to Horn of Africa, Afghanistan, Kuwait and Iraq in support of Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom.
Nicholas Lingo (NNS)
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