/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1598150
Bulldozer operator. Road construction mostly.

>>1598167
What makes them different than combat engineers then?

>>1598169
Pretty sure that's just the Navy name for their combat engineers. Started as "construction battalion."

>>1598185
Cool good to know. If I could go back and do it again I’d probably go seabee

>>1598150
i've known 2 seabees that were electricians, both were really good at their job after service

I was a Construction Electrician. Basically we were a bunch of drunk assholes that trained like some legitimate mongoloids watched a bunch of movies about marines, got a general idea of how they operated but had no understanding of "why" and thought to themselves "I could do that."
Most of us sarcastically made jokes about how we were the next best thing to SEALs, but there was a surprising number of us that actually thought we were on par. The reality was we were construction workers that most often did humanitarian work, and once a year played war games with blanks.

Great times, for sure, but very few Seabees actually knew shit about their rate. They're becoming obsolete with other branches being more proficient on the construction side and Army/Marines having their combat roles fully covered.

https://youtu.be/7QH6vyryVTc
This was my battalion, I was there. Shit was miserable, and I never even got to see Mike Rowe, but at one point my wife brought me a sammich and I got to show her the muddy hole and 240b I used to fire at dudes in the treeline. It was all a lot of fun if you don't take anything too serious. Our Master Chief said it best--"if you can't get out of it, get into it." And he'd say this with a straight face while wearing a "RECRUIT" ball cap.
Overall a very weird side of the military. Would join again.

>>1598343
Sounds comfy.

I knew an old guy who was a SeaBee in WWII. He told me about some of the shit he saw in the Aleutian Islands. Just from what he told me, Ican't even imagine actually being there.

>>1598150
Trash Engineer. Cleaned up shit mostly.

>>1598150
a fucking Seabee thread? wow.


Anyway, I spent 6 years fucking off, learning a trade, traveling the world, and drinking. It was great. I got out and got an engineering degree and make pretty good money at a comfy job. 8/10 would do again. Pic related, this was my unit in Thailand. After we poured that pad we got super drunk with the thai marines and played soccer.

>>1598343
>>1598343
when i was in, air force red horse and army corps of engineers were utter jokes compared to the bees. not a one of them could do to-code construction.

Is it a bad idea to go INTO the seabees in your early 30's if you've got 5 years in construction/skilled trade job experience?

>>1598476
>if you've got 5 years in construction/skilled trade job experience?

yes. the Seabees is a construction cult for young twenty somethings. if you are past 25 and have any modicum of real world experience, just stay a damn civilian.

unless, of course, you just want to live the lifestyle. it's attractive to some folks for understandable reasons.

>>1598479
>unless, of course, you just want to live the lifestyle
The "pog"/military lifestyle?

>>1598480
>>1598480
something like that. like another poster said, the Seabees are fuckin' weird.

just... some of the shit you do and see. you get stories that people will straight up not believe.

>>1598480
You know how the military is full of drunks, dropouts, and people the no other options?
You know how the construction industry is full of drunks, dropouts and people with no other options?
Put the two together, but don't add them, multiply them.
Now you have Seabees.

I did four years because I was too poor to afford college but too rich to get grants. There was no way in hell I was gonna put myself $60k in the hole for a degree so I signed up and used the GI Bill to go to college when I go out. VA Loans also let me get a house at a decent rate with no money down.

Would I do it again? Fuck no. I joined the wrong branch. Air Force all the way. Same pay, same benefits, way easier job, not get shot at by Haji the goat fucker while in Dumbfuckistan. Don't go into construction, it will ruin you physically and it is very feast or famine once out of the military. Do whatever job you can get in the military with the shortest enlistment term and largest signing bonus. One and done, go to college, get a real job, and try to use the preferential highering bonus to get a job for the State or Federal Government. Bam, set for life.

>>1598522
im already in construction, just as a "civilian"

>>1598476
You're a little too old to fit in with lower enlisted, and you'll miss out on a lot of the more retarded shit Seabees get up to.
So what would you be joining for? A career? Sounds kinda insufferable to get bossed around by kids a decade younger than you till you rise to e6 and *maybe* have some peers in their 30's. Would take maybe a decade for you to do unless you've got hot shit work ethic and some great people skills. At that point you'd be in your 40's, and you'd be pretty ancient compared to peers. Sounds like a shit plan. I'd advise against it, but you do you, bro.

>>1598150
My friend was in the Seabees in the 60's. He learned to do concrete work and tile.