AUGUSTA, Kan. (KSNW) — Ray Brown grew up in tiny Brainerd, Kansas, and later, he lived in Potwin for over 45 years. In between, he joined the Navy at the age of 19 and served as a Seabee during two ...

During the Vietnam War, Duayne Keen battled with the U.S. Navy Seabees south of Da Nang. Way south. "I was right on the South Pole," noted the Conestoga man, who fought numbing Antarctic temperatures ...

He knew he would have to serve in Vietnam but thought it would be in the rear echelon. The boot camp for Seabees was in Davisville, Rhode Island. Instead of Naval personnel, they were trained by ...

During the Vietnam War, 20-year-old Seabee Mike Faught helped build airstrips at Danang. During the Persian Gulf War, he helped build a 500-bed hospital in Kuwait.Faught, now a 55-year-old union ...

This is for real.” When Ziegler first arrived in Vietnam, he thought the Seabees would set up temporary camps, but he soon realized all the buildings were permanent structures. This was not a ...