SEABEE COMBAT WARFARE PRACTICE EXAM TEST
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS MARKED A+
✔✔While the Seabees were in Korea what was done (3 take aways) - ✔✔- Constructed
the cube point naval air station the Philippians by cutting a mountain in half and built a
two mile long runway, twenty million man hours went into that project
- Kept a 21 mile stretch of road between and isolated marine intercept squadron and its
source of supplies, they worked around the clock in below zero temperatures and rebuilt
the damaged bridge within 6 hours
- Operation cripple chick: Seabees were given 35 days to build a 2,400 foot airstrip in
Yo Do in the bay of Wonson and finished in 16 days while under constant artillery
bombardment from enemy forces on a neighboring island
✔✔While the Seabees were in Vietnam what was done (2 take aways) - ✔✔- All 21
battalions deployed
- Constructed a marine expeditionary airfield In 23 days
✔✔What happened in Diego Garcia (4 major take aways) - ✔✔- Largest peacetime
construction project
- From 1971-1983 seabees built a remote forward logistics base and naval
communication station
- Built a 3,500 foot airstrip eventually expanding it to 12,000 foot
- Completed 220 projects costing over 220 million dollars
✔✔What did the Seabees do for the Persian Gulf War (4 major take aways) - ✔✔- 5,000
Seabees from 6 battalions deployed in support to desert storm/shield
- Constructed facilities for 42,000 people
- Constructed EPW camps housing up to 40,000 people
- Built and maintained a 200 mile four lane supply route near the Kuwait border critical
to launching and sustaining the Hail Mary ground attack plan into Iraq
✔✔How did the Seabees contribute to the global war on terror (6 major take aways) -
✔✔- Constructed a 20-acre airfield parking apron
- Prepared 10-acre and 20-acre acres for AM-2 matting
- Constructed a 48,000 square foot concrete pad
- Constructed a 1,200 person camp in Kuwait
- Constructed a 14,000 person EPW camp
- Preformed rapid runway repair at the coalition-bombed Kandahar international airport
and git runway open for C-130 and C-17 flights with in 48 hours
✔✔What other operations other than war did Seabees conduct - ✔✔- Operation provide
comfort: Provided facilities for the Kurdish refugees until they could return to their
villages
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS MARKED A+
✔✔While the Seabees were in Korea what was done (3 take aways) - ✔✔- Constructed
the cube point naval air station the Philippians by cutting a mountain in half and built a
two mile long runway, twenty million man hours went into that project
- Kept a 21 mile stretch of road between and isolated marine intercept squadron and its
source of supplies, they worked around the clock in below zero temperatures and rebuilt
the damaged bridge within 6 hours
- Operation cripple chick: Seabees were given 35 days to build a 2,400 foot airstrip in
Yo Do in the bay of Wonson and finished in 16 days while under constant artillery
bombardment from enemy forces on a neighboring island
✔✔While the Seabees were in Vietnam what was done (2 take aways) - ✔✔- All 21
battalions deployed
- Constructed a marine expeditionary airfield In 23 days
✔✔What happened in Diego Garcia (4 major take aways) - ✔✔- Largest peacetime
construction project
- From 1971-1983 seabees built a remote forward logistics base and naval
communication station
- Built a 3,500 foot airstrip eventually expanding it to 12,000 foot
- Completed 220 projects costing over 220 million dollars
✔✔What did the Seabees do for the Persian Gulf War (4 major take aways) - ✔✔- 5,000
Seabees from 6 battalions deployed in support to desert storm/shield
- Constructed facilities for 42,000 people
- Constructed EPW camps housing up to 40,000 people
- Built and maintained a 200 mile four lane supply route near the Kuwait border critical
to launching and sustaining the Hail Mary ground attack plan into Iraq
✔✔How did the Seabees contribute to the global war on terror (6 major take aways) -
✔✔- Constructed a 20-acre airfield parking apron
- Prepared 10-acre and 20-acre acres for AM-2 matting
- Constructed a 48,000 square foot concrete pad
- Constructed a 1,200 person camp in Kuwait
- Constructed a 14,000 person EPW camp
- Preformed rapid runway repair at the coalition-bombed Kandahar international airport
and git runway open for C-130 and C-17 flights with in 48 hours
✔✔What other operations other than war did Seabees conduct - ✔✔- Operation provide
comfort: Provided facilities for the Kurdish refugees until they could return to their
villages
