Seabees prepare for field exercise

GULFPORT, Miss. - Seabees with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1 completed a 96-hour Command Post Exercise (CPX) Jan. 19 aboard Naval Construction Battalion Center Gulfport, Miss. The CPX was designed to prepare NMCB 1 personnel for an upcoming Field Training Exercise. The exercise deliberately cycles operations and mission planning in order to test command and control between a Combat Operations Center and sailors at their designated assignments. COC watch-standers oversee the real-time status and progression of operations on the grounds. "We need to be able to resource personnel where they are needed based on our vertical and horizontal assets assigned to us," said Chief Builder Bo Hartley. Sailors also trained on mission planning, convoys, occupying objectives, developing fire plans, patrol briefs, patrols and Entry Control Point operations. (Source: Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1 01/22/18)