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- Diego Garcia - NHHC
The remote coral atoll of Diego Garcia is the largest of sixty small islands forming the Chagos Archipelago located just south of the equator in the middle of the Indian Ocean European exploration of the Indian Ocean was spear headed by the Portuguese when Vasco da Gama completed his initial voyage to India in 1499 This, together with the voyages of Columbus (1492 – 1504), opened the way
- Reindeer Station (Diego Garcia) - NHHC
One of the major projects for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command and the major project for the Seabees in the 1970s and early 1980s was the construction of naval facilities on the atoll of Diego Garcia, which was part of the British Indian Ocean Territory Diego Garcia, one of the 52 coral atolls of the Chagos Archipelago, was located in the Indian Ocean 960 miles south of India and 7
- A Professional History - NHHC
In 1979, NMCB FIVE deployed to Diego Garcia for the construction of this critical naval base in the middle of the Indian Ocean For their activities, the men of FIVE were awarded the Navy Expeditionary Medal
- Seabee History - After Vietnam - NHHC
The work the Seabees completed on Diego Garcia since 1971 represented the largest peacetime construction effort in their history Diego Garcia was the major Seabee construction effort of the 1970s and they acquitted themselves well under the difficult and isolated conditions that exist there
- lt;p gt;Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 10, Deployment Completion . . . - NHHC
During the Diego Garcia deployment "I" Division was able to indoctrinate and orient over 100 new "Meo of Ten" The first group of men reported aboard 12 August 1974
- U. S. NAVAL MOBILE CONSTRUCTION JULY 1972-MARCH 1973 - NHHC
Diego Garcia, an island inhabited once only by plantation workers and now owned by the United King dom, is the site of the newest communications station on the U S Navy's log books with construction having been scheduled for completion in 197 4 Diego Garcia is one of 52 islands which make up the Chagos Archipelago
- Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133
e and Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean On Diego, Detail Chagos assisted in building the single largest project in Naval Construction Forces nawa for a deployment in February 1974 Details journey d to the Philippines, Taiwan and Japan A hanger facility at Cubi Point Naval Air Station in the Philippines was completed within
- lt;p gt;Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4, Deployment Completion . . . - NHHC
Operational control of the on-site battalion and res- ponsibility for Diego Garcia construction program shifted from COMCBLANT to COMCBPAC SS AMERICAN CHIEFTAIN departed Diego Garcia upon comple- t ion of offload of construction equipment materials, supplies and provisions
- Command History - NHHC
In February 1975 the Battalion deployed to Diego Garcia, a British territory in the Indian Ocean THREE contributed to the massive construction effort undertaken by the Naval Construction Force NMCB THREE was named "Best of Type" in 1976 and winner of the Peltier Award for providing emergency repairs for all military commands while continuing its normal construction projects throughout the
- lt;p gt;Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 62, Deployment Completion . . . - NHHC
A dynamic Material Management System, developed by NMCB-62 to track all pro jects, proved invaluable in Punchltst Management rleanlng up Diego Garcia, including removal of all scrap, waste pits, Bone Yard Equipment and rebuilding of Island Berms, was a monumental task which when done left these island areas in their natural condition
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