This up-to-date electronic book on CD-ROM has coverage of the Seabees, the Naval Construction Force, including mission, history, regiments, mobile construction battalions, and amphibious construction battalions. This encyclopedic collection on the Navy contains more than 54,000 pages reproduced in Adobe Acrobat PDF files. Naval Mobile Construction Battalions (NMCBs) provide responsive military construction support to Navy, Marine Corps and other forces in military operations, construct base facilities and conduct defensive operations. In addition to standard wood, steel, masonry and concrete construction, NMCBs also perform specialized construction such as water well drilling and battle damage repair. They are able to work and defend themselves at construction sites outside of their base camp and convoy through unsecured areas. In times of emergency or disaster, NMCBs conduct disaster control and recovery operations. There are eight active duty and twelve reserve NMCBs. Units of the Seabees include the First Naval Construction Division (1NCD), Seabee Readiness Group (SRG), Naval Construction Regiments (NCR), Naval Mobile Construction Battalions (NMCB), Naval Amphibious Construction Battalions (ACB), Underwater Construction Teams (UCT), Construction Battalion Units (CBU), Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit (CBMU), Naval Construction Force Support Units (NCFSU). Complementing the Seabee Naval Construction Force coverage is an extensive collection of Navy material on the current fleet, weapons, ships overview, ships Program Executive Office, surface warfare, Navy budget documents, the DDG-100 Zumwalt destroyer program, historic data on American battleships, and a full Navy ship inventory, directory and dictionary. Naval Vessel Register, with information on ships and service craft, comprises the official inventory from the time of vessel authorization through its service life and disposal. Data includes fleet size, ship hull classification symbols, names, homepo