Delta Company, NMCB 17
The Delta Company of a typical Seabee battalion can consist of any combination of rates. Delta Company is made up of deployable detachments.
The Air Detachment is the 'M' in Mobile: Ready to respond at a moments notice. The Air Detachment can go to any environment anywhere in the world in 48 hours, and bring with it enough material to support itself for thirty days. In order to be able to do that, AirDet Seabees put in lots of extra hours training and functioning as basically a miniature battalion, ready to accomplish any mission that a regular battalion might be called on to perform only at a smaller scale.
During field exercises, or FEXs, the AirDet has been the first Echelon into the area of operations. Usually arriving by air and convoying to our predetermined site and later joined by the main body of the Battalion. The AirDet will be off its own, so it needs all the same internal organizations that the main body has. That means its own Rapid Runway Repair, its own Chemical Decontamination (CBR) team, its own Disaster Recovery Team (DRT), and its own REACT.
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