NAVEDTRA 43904-C
SEABEE COMBAT WARFARE
NMCB SPECIFIC
Unit 201
WARFARE MISSION AREA
WARFARE MISSION
•
References:
- OPNAVINST 3501.115D, Projected Operational Environment (POE)
and Require Operational Capabilities (ROC) for the Naval Construction
Force Series
- NTTP 4-04.1M, Seabee Operations in the MAGTF
(February 2008 Edition)
- NAVFAC P-1049, Naval Construction Force Mobilization Manual
- OPNAVINST 5450.46K, Naval Construction Force Policy Statement
- NWP 4-04 Naval Civil Engineer Operations (December 2007 Edition)
MISSION STATEMENT
• PQS Question 201.1.1: State and discuss the
NMCB mission:
• Reference:
NTTP 4-04, pp. 1-1 thru 1-6
NMCB Mission
•
The mission of the NMCB is to provide responsive military construction
support to Navy, Marine Corps, and other forces in military operations;
to construct and maintain base facilities; to repair battle-damaged
facilities, and to conduct limited defensive operations as required by the
circumstances of the deployment situation. It can also accomplish
disaster control and recovery efforts when required. Specifically,
mission areas of the NMCB include the following:
– Performing horizontal and vertical construction simultaneously
while defending their project sites from hostile forces.
– Deploying an Air DET with air-liftable supplies and equipment within
48 hours of notification. The remainder of a deployed NMCB can
embark within 6 days.
– Conducting active defensive operations against overt or clandestine
enemy attacks directed toward unit personnel, convoys, camps,
and facilities under construction.
– Performing intermediate maintenance on organic and assigned
augment equipment simultaneously with construction effort.
MOBILITY
PQS Question 201.1.2 Define the
Mobilization Process as it applies to an
NMCB.
Reference:
NAVFAC P-1049, pp 7-1 thru 7-2
MOBILIZATION PROCESS
•
Mobilization is the process whereby a nation makes the
transition form a normal state of peacetime preparedness
to a war-fighting posture. It involves the assembly,
organization and application of the nation’s resources for
national defense. The mobilization process encompasses
all activities necessary to systematically and selectively
prepare for war.
– NMPS process
– Release, Depreservation, and Shipment of
Prepositioned War Reserve Material Stock (PWRMS)
and/or Final Title stocks stored at either NCBC Gulfport,
MS or Port Hueneme, CA.
– Outfitting, Readying, and Training of NCF Personnel.
MOB Process
• The general planning policies, concepts, and assumptions,
which were used in the development are as follows:
– Unit Table of Allowance (TOA) equipment and material will
already be forward deployed (four TOAs at existing
deployment sites), are deployed aboard the MPF(E), or will
be deployed by air, rail, or sea from a supporting NCBC.
– Unit personnel will deploy by air (except ship riders).
– Mobilized unit personnel will stay at NCBC Gulfport, MS and
Port Hueneme, CA, until scheduled to deploy. Personnel will
be mobilized as specified in the TPFDD which are structured
to provide adequate activation and training time in order to
deliver unit personnel for deployment on the specified dates.
MOB Process
– All unit personnel going through NCBC Gulfport, MS and Port
Hueneme, CA, will receive initial outfitting of selected individual
combat and survivability gear from the homeport NCR/PWRMS and
will receive refresher combat/survivability/unit training.
– Deployment scheduling will be as required by the OPLAN(s) being
executed.
– Depending on specific OPLAN requirements, selected mobilizing
unit personnel may be available to assist NCBC Gulfport, MS and
Port Hueneme, CA, in the depreservation, breakout, staging and
shipment of TOA equipment/material and in providing necessary
personnel support functions. Logistics Support Mobilization Plans
(LSMPs) will address whether or not selected mobilizing unit
personnel (by unit, rate, number, and time-frame) are required.
Such use shall not conflict with OPLAN deployment schedules or
with initial outfitting/refresher training.
MOB Process
– All essential services currently being provided to tenant
commands by NCBC Gulfport, MS and Port Hueneme, CA,
will continue at a level commensurate with the tenant
command's mobilization mission. New services will not be
provided unless pre-mobilization support agreements are in
place.
– All non-essential work will be deferred as required to meet
the mobilization peak workload. During a full mobilization,
NCBC Gulfport, MS and Port Hueneme, CA, will activate
their supporting Augments, Personnel Mobilization Teams
(PERSMOBTEAMS), and in mobilization mode will work two
10-hour shifts, 6 days per week
MOBILITY
PQS Question 201.1.3: Discuss tasks priority
codes and how they are applied to NMCB mobility
tasks:
Reference: NWP 4-04, B-1-1 pg 169
TASK PRIORITY CODES
COMMAND, CONTROL,
COMMUNICATION, COMPUTERS, AND
INTEL (C4I)
PQS Question 201.1.4: Discuss battalion
command and control within the Marine
Air/Ground Task Force (MAGTF):
Reference: NTTP 4-04.1M, p 1-13
COMMAND & CONTROL IN
MAGTF
– Concepts Of The Naval Construction Force
– Command and Control. COMSECONDNCB and COMTHIRDNCB, as
operational type commanders under CINCLANTFLT and CINCPACFLT,
respectively, serve the fleet CINCs as the principal advisors for the direct
utilization of the Seabee organizations and capabilities under their
command. Headquarters for both NCBs (COMSECONDNCB is located in
Norfolk, VA and COMTHIRDNCB is located in Pearl Harbor, HI) are situated
close to the fleet CINCs. These NCBs exercise operational and limited
administrative control of their assigned Seabee units, both active and
Reserve. They also provide directive policy guidance for subordinate units
in such areas as leadership and discipline, administration; contingency
planning and readiness; military and technical training; unit deployment,
employment, and scheduling; operational effectiveness; development of
operational doctrine, tasking and procedures; equipment management; and
logistics support. When SECOND NCB and THIRD NCB units deploy, their
OPCON may shift to the appropriate fleet, joint, or unified combatant
commander. However, COMSECONDNCB and COMTHIRDNCB always
maintain administrative control of their subordinate units.
Notional NFR Org
OPCON of NCF Units
– OPCON of NCF Units. The USMC/USN Terms of Reference state that
OPCON is the only command and support relationship appropriate and
authorized when Seabee units are employed within the MAGTF
organization. ADCON usually remains with the Seabee unit’s parent NCB.
OPCON of Seabee units provides the MAGTF commander with authority to
direct the forces assigned so that the commander may:
• Accomplish specific missions or tasks that are usually limited by
function, time, or location.
• Deploy the Seabee units concerned as appropriate.
• Retain or assign tactical control of those Seabee units.
• OPCON does not include authority to assign separate employment of
elements of the units concerned. Neither does it, by itself, include
administrative or logistic control. OPCON of those Seabee
organizations not governed by the TOR, but employed in theater, may
also be exercised by commands other than those which have ADCON,
such as the unified CINCs, CJTFs, or component commanders.
COMMAND, CONTROL,
COMMUNICATION, COMPUTERS, AND
INTEL (C4I)
PQS Question 201.1.5: Discuss battalion
command and control during join operations in
peacetime and wartime:
Reference: OPNAVINST 5450.46K, pp 5 thru 14
COMMAND & CONTROL IN
JOINT OPERATIONS
– Combatant Command (COCOM)
• Is the nontransferable command authority over assigned
forces vested only in the commanders of combatant
commands by Title 10 U.S.C. Section 164, or as directed
by the President in the Unified Command Plan (UCP).
COCOM is the authority to perform those functions of
command involving organizing and employing
commands and forces, assigning tasks, designating
objectives, and giving authoritative direction over all
aspects of military operations, joint training, and logistics
necessary to accomplish the missions assigned to the
command.
Reporting Relationships
• Reporting relationships of NMCBs
– Forward deployment requirements for NMCBs are specified
in reference (i). Rotation of NMCBs shall be planned by both
NCBs and the Fleet CINCs, and approved by the CNO
(N44). When not deployed, NMCBs are under the
ADCON/OPCON of the NCBs reporting via their NCRs.
When forward deployed, NMCBs shall be under the OPCON
of the AOR theater CINC via the Navy service component
commander serving that CINC and OPCON NCR Forward
deployed NMCBs remain under the ADCON of the NCBs
reporting via the NCRs.
– NMCBs may be assigned OPCON to a Marine Expeditionary
Force (MEF) or a Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF).
COMMAND, CONTROL,
COMMUNICATION, COMPUTERS, AND
INTEL (C4I)
PQS Question 201.1.6: Describe tactical
construction:
Reference: OPNAVINST 3501.115D, encl 7, pp. 3 thru 4
TACTICAL CONSTRUCTION
TACTICAL CONSTRUCTION
CONTINGENCY ENGINEERING
PQS Question 201.1.7: Describe in detail the
three construction standards:
Reference: NWP 4-04, pp 5-1 thru 5-2
CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS
CONTINGENCY ENGINEERING
PQS Question 201.1.8: Describe the Seabees
role in advanced base and camp construction:
Reference: NAVFAC P-1049, p 12-2
Advance Base and Camp
Construction
• Reporting relationships of NMCBs
– Forward deployment requirements for NMCBs are specified
in reference (i). Rotation of NMCBs shall be planned by both
NCBs and the Fleet CINCs, and approved by the CNO
(N44). When not deployed, NMCBs are under the
ADCON/OPCON of the NCBs reporting via their NCRs.
When forward deployed, NMCBs shall be under the OPCON
of the AOR theater CINC via the Navy service component
commander serving that CINC and OPCON NCR Forward
deployed NMCBs remain under the ADCON of the NCBs
reporting via the NCRs.
– NMCBs may be assigned OPCON to a Marine Expeditionary
Force (MEF) or a Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF).
Advance Base and Camp
Construction
• organized into one headquarters and four line companies with
full wartime strength of 25 officers and 787 enlisted. Each line
company includes a weapons platoon using heavy machine
guns and lightweight antitank weapons. The headquarters
company has mortar capability. CESE includes construction,
weight handling, and general-purpose vehicles.
• There are currently nine active duty NMCBs, three of which are
continuously forward deployed to Okinawa, Guam, Roosevelt
Roads, and Rota, Spain. When not deployed or in movement,
remaining active duty NMCBs perform planning and training at
their homeports at NCBC Gulfport, MS or NBVC Port Hueneme,
CA. Peacetime manning of active NMCBs is below wartime
strength, and each has a dedicated reserve augment unit that
may be activated through presidential recall during a crisis
situation.
NON-COMBAT OPERATIONS (NCO)
PQS Question 201.1.9: Discuss battalion
operations during a peacetime deployment:
Reference: NAVFAC P-1049, p 12-3
BATTALION OPS DURING
PEACETIME

When forward deployed during peacetime, the active NMCBs perform
project construction (primarily for skills training and readiness) in
support of Fleet CINCs under the coordination and project
management of the NCBs. Deployed NMCBs also support Combatant
CINC-sponsored Joint Exercises and Deployment for Training (DFT)
Programs, as approved by the Fleet CINCs. There are currently 12
reserve NMCBs. Once fully mobilized, reserve NMCBs have the same
contingency missions and required operational capabilities as active
NMCBs. Because of their rapid deployment, self-sustainment and selfdefense capabilities, their task specific organizational flexibility, and
often, their geographic proximity, NMCBs (both active and reserve) may
be tasked with providing emergency assistance, disaster recovery, or
humanitarian relief support. Each NMCB shall be capable of forming,
employing, and exercising command and control of independent
detachments, teams or parties of up to 50 percent of the NMCB in size
as required in support of tailoring to meet assigned objectives. Each
Detachment shall be under the command of an officer in charge (OIC).
Additional detachments and smaller work details may be required
concurrently of the same NMCB.
NON-COMBAT OPERATIONS (NCO)
PQS Question 201.1.10: Discuss Seabees role
in humanitarian operations:
Reference: OPNAVINST 3501.115D, encl 7
HUMANITARIAN OPS

MOS 2.1
Deliver relief material.
III, IV(L) – Limited transportation assets requires
augment to TOA.
V(L) – Plain and train.
MOS 2.2
Provide emergency flooding/fire fighting assistance to
another unit.
III, IV, V (L) – Limited to capabilities of TOA with no
specialized training of personnel in this
capability.
V(L) – Plain and train.
MOS 2.4
Provide disaster assistance and evacuation.
III, IV (L) – Earth moving, civil engineering, and general
labor support. Limited transportation assets.
V(L) – Plain and train.
HUMANITARIAN OPS

MOS 2.5
Clear and repair utilities and facilities damaged by
natural disaster, fire and civil disturbance;
decontaminate CBR effects.
III, IV(L) – For natural disaster, fire and civil disturbance
only. CBR decontamination limited to organic equipment
and unit personnel.
V(L) – Plain and train.
MOS 2.9
Plan, direct and coordinate disaster assistance
evacuation.
IV, V (L) – Civil engineering projects. Limited
transportation assets requires augment to TOA.
V(L) – Plain and train.
MOS 2.10
Support/provide for the evacuation of noncombatant
personnel in areas of civil or international crisis.
III, IV (L) – Will degrade other mission areas, Limited
transportation assets requires augment to TOA.
V(L) – Plain and train.
HUMANITARIAN OPS

MOS 2.14
Provide transportation for evacuees to designated safe
havens or onward processing centers.
III, IV (L) – Will degrade other mission areas, Limited
transportation assets requires augment to TOA.
V(L) – Plain and train.
COMMAND AND CONTROL WARFARE
(C2W)
PQS Question 201.1.11: Discuss battalion
Administrative Control (ADCON) and Operational
Control (OPCON) in homeport:
Reference: OPNAVINST 5450.46K, pp 7 thru 8
OPCON
• OPCON
– Is the operational control inherent in COCOM and
is the authority to perform those functions of
command over subordinate forces involving
organizing and employing commands and forces,
assigning tasks, designating objectives, and giving
authoritative direction necessary to accomplish the
missions assigned to the command. Only the
COCOM chain of command or National Command
Authority (NCA) delegates OPCON.
ADCON
• ADCON
– Is the administrative control over subordinate or other
organizations with respect to administration and support,
including organization of naval forces, control of resources
and equipment, personnel management, unit logistics,
individual and unit training, readiness, mobilization,
demobilization, and discipline and other matters not included
in the operational missions of the subordinate or other
organizations. Specifically included in ADCON are command
of peacetime support and employment of NCF forces (other
than OPCON during theater CINC peacetime exercises and
training), and readiness reporting (SORTS). The Department
of the Navy is responsible for all logistic and administrative
support of NCF forces assigned to or attached to joint
commands and combatant commanders. ADCON of NCF
forces is delegated as described in this Policy Statement:
ADCON
• All Service forces (except as noted in 10 U.S.C. 162) are
assigned to combatant commands by the Secretary of
Defense (SECDEF) “Forces for Unified Commands”
memorandum. A force assigned or attached to a
combatant command may be transferred from that
command only as directed by SECDEF and under
procedures prescribed by SECDEF and approved by the
President.
The Commanders In Chief, U.S. Atlantic and Pacific
Fleets (CINCLANTFLT and CINCPACFLT) are assigned
ADCON over all NCF units assigned to and including
their respective NCBs.
COMMAND AND CONTROL WARFARE
(C2W)
PQS Question 201.1.12: Discuss NMCB
administrative control when forward deployed:
Reference: OPNAVINST 5450.46K, p 8
ADCON when forward
deployed
– ADCON includes command, control and coordination of peacetime
operations and support performed by forward-deployed units and shall
remain under their respective Fleet CINCs, exercised via their NCBs. Fleet
CINCs / NCBs are authorized to delegate ADCON of assigned units to
maximize efficiency of command and control (for example, an NCR should
be delegated ADCON of subordinate NMCBs and assigned NCF units).
– Specific Seabee resources are forward deployed in accordance with
reference (i). The Fleet CINCs and NCBs shall coordinate OPCON
relationships with the associated theater CINC exercising COCOM over the
forward-deployed resources.
– As specified, in the event of a major emergency in the geographic
combatant commander’s area of responsibility (AOR), or theater, requiring
the use of all available forces, that geographic combatant commander may
assume direct OPCON of all forces (including forward deployed NCF units)
located within the assigned AOR. Forward deployment of NCF units
provides close geographic proximity to locations where a contingency may
occur, minimizing lift requirements and maximizing prompt logistical support
and responsiveness.
COMMAND AND CONTROL WARFARE
(C2W)
PQS Question 201.1.13: Discuss NMCB
operational control within the MAGTF and a Naval
Construction Regiment (NCR):
Reference: NTTP 4-04.1M, p 2-7
NWP 4-04, p 2-7
OPCON of NCF
– OPCON of NCF Units.
• MAGTF
– The USMC/USN Terms of Reference state that OPCON is the only
command and support relationship appropriate and authorized
when Seabee units are employed within the MAGTF organization.
ADCON usually remains with the Seabee unit’s parent NCB.
OPCON of Seabee units provides the MAGTF commander with
authority to direct the forces assigned so that the commander
may:
» Accomplish specific missions or tasks that are usually limited
by function, time, or location.
» Deploy the Seabee units concerned as appropriate.
» Retain or assign tactical control of those Seabee units.
• OPCON does not include authority to assign separate employment of
elements of the units concerned. Neither does it, by itself, include
administrative or logistic control. OPCON of those Seabee
organizations not governed by the TOR, but employed in theater, may
also be exercised by commands other than those which have ADCON,
such as the unified CINCs, CJTFs, or component commanders.
NCR
–
NCR
• Organization. Normally commanded by a Navy CEC Captain, a deployable,
operational NCR CE consists of a staff organized into the following departments:
Executive, Administrative, Intelligence, Operations, Supply, and Readiness. The
NCR CE typically has OPCON over two to four assigned NMCBs and an NCFSU.
However, if the mission and engineering requirements warrant such, one or more
Air DETs from a UCT may also be assigned to augment the NCR task
organization.
• Concept of Employment. The NCR CE is task-organized and equipped for
employment as an assigned force in support of MEF-sized operations when two
or more NMCBs operating in a specific area are assigned to support the MEF. The
NCR CE is structured to provide air or surface deployable elements in support of
a specific military operation. Generally, the NCR CE:
– Maintains an organic TOA (TA11) capable of sustaining operations planned
or envisioned under contingency or general war conditions for 60 days
without resupply, except that Class I material is limited to 5 days, Class III is
limited to 3 days, and Class V is limited to 15 days. Organic Class IV is
limited to only those materials required to construct the command element’s
base camp. Resupply past the timeframes noted is the responsibility of the
supported MAGTF.
– Is capable of performing its mission using basic individual protective
measures in a CBR-contaminated environment for 30 days.
• Tasks. The NCR CE is a command and control organization that plans, monitors,
directs, coordinates, and controls construction operations for all subordinate
NMCBs, NCFSUs, and other attached units.