Can Do! The Story of the Seabees

Born in 'the hellish aftermath of Pearl Harbor ' the Seabees began as barely armed civilians with no military training. They had an average age of 35. GI's would joke Never hit a Seabee for his son might be a Marine. America's bulldozing jungle-hacking 'Jap-cracking' Construction Battalion or the Seabees ('C.B.'s) soon proved themselves miracle-construction-workers in seemingly impassable combat zones. Before World War 2 Marines were the ones to 'get their first ' but the need for roads in the muddy battlefields of the Pacific meant that claim would pass to the Construction Battalion. Their early motto was 'Can Do!'