Digging In, Seabees Support Mission
Navy NewsStand
Story Number: NNS090204-01
Release Date: 2/4/2009 12:55:00 PM
By Army Staff Sgt. Gretel Sharpee
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (NNS) -- Helping ensure the safe and humane treatment of detainees is a responsibility undertaken by more than just the personnel in Joint Task Force (JTF) Guantanamo.
For the Seabees of Navy Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 4, doing construction projects for the JTF is just another way to keep the mission moving forward. For the past few weeks, a small crew of Seabees has been working in various parts of the camps building new fence lines to help make the care and detention of detainees as safe as possible.
"We built a fenced-in area to the classrooms so the detainees could walk right there, hopefully making it easier for the detainees and the guards," said Builder 1st Class Jeffrey Wyttenbach, with NMCB 4. "[We] help the mission move forward. What we are working on now will be a new [recreation] yard, so we are putting in fencing and concrete underneath [the fencing]," Wyttenbach said.
This will be one of the last projects in for NMCB 4 before returning to Port Hueneme, Calif., which is primarily an engineering, maintenance and construction base.
"When we work [for the JTF] we actually see right away how we help the mission," said Builder 3rd Class Nathan Britton, NMCB 4. "If we didn't do this, it would be a delay and that isn't what works around here."
For more news from Joint Task Force Guantanamo, visit www.navy.mil/local/jtfgtmo/.
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