Bureaucracy Be Gone! The Navy Must Remember the Seabees Fighting Spirit

Bureaucracy Be Gone! The Navy Must Remember the Seabees Fighting Spirit

The U.S. Navy Construction Corps—better known as the Seabees—was an unusual beast.

 

Let’s clear away bureaucratic underbrush—and recapture the spirit of the Pacific War.

James Holmes is J. C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and author of “Visualize Chinese Sea Power,” in the current issue of the Naval Institute Proceedings. The views voiced here are his alone.

 

This article is being republished due to reader interest.

Image: Reuters.