By Petty Officer 2nd Class Kenneth W. Robinson Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 27 Western Iraq –

Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 27 homeported in Brunswick, Maine along with the Army 341st Multi Role Bridge Company and Marine Corps Kilo Co. 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines recently completed a construction project in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in al Anbar province.

The Mission consisted of constructing an 800 foot incursion barrier spanning the Euphrates River. Petty Officer 1st Class Brian Workman, of Lowell, Mass., Lead Petty Officer for NMCB-27 lead the project which included steelworkers, construction mechanics, equipment operators and an engineering aid and builder from NMCB-27 as well as coordinated all efforts between the other services.

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Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 27 builds constructs river barrier in Western Iraq