World War II Vietnam War Gulf War Operation Iraqi Freedom
Commanders
Current commander
CDR John K. Pergerson[1]
Military unit
Parent unit
30th Naval Construction Regiment
Naval Construction Battalion 5 was commissioned on May 25, 1942 at Camp Allen Va.[2] The battalion went to Port Hueneme and shipped out for the first of two deployments in the Pacific. When the war ended CB 5 was decommissioned in the Philippines. On July 10, 1951 the Battalion was re-commissioned as a MCB and remains an active unit today.
WWII Unit Insignia
5th CB WWII insignia
5th Marine Regiment insignia
CB 5 adopted the Seahorse of the 5th Marines
Battalion insignia since recommissioning
5th MCB 1951 insignia
later MCB 5 insignia
NMCB 5 1970 insignia
5th CB WWII HQ sign. (Seabee Museum)Midway Atoll airfields. Runway in black remains in use today the ones in gray have been abandoned.French Frigate Shoals 3,100' x 275' runway was created by NCB 5.NAS Cubi Point, MCB 5 Seabees helped leveled a mountain that civilian contractors said could not be done. Note the Aircraft-carrier docked adjacent the field. (USN)MCB 5 constructing an Integrated Wideband Communication System Antenna on Monkey Mountain during the 1966-67 Vietnam deployment. (Seabee Museum)
^Naval Mobile Construction Battalion FIVE, The Official website of the Naval Construction Force, Commanding Officer NMCB 5, 2600 Dodson Street, Suite 3, Port Hueneme, CA 93043.
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^Naval Mobile Construction Battalion FIVE: History, The Official website of the Naval Construction Force, Commander, Naval Construction Group ONE, 1436 Pacific Road, Port Hueneme, CA 93043-4301 [2]
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