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Seabee Vietnam

Era Patch!

Condition: Used, but in good shape. It has been swen on.

The patch is 2 inches in diameter. It has cut edges cotton patch.

The Seabees are the Construction Battalions of the United States Navy. The Seabees have a history of building bases, bulldozing and paving thousands of miles of roadway and airstrips, and accomplishing myriad other construction projects in a wide variety of military theatres dating back to World War II.

The official motto of the Seabees is "Construimus, Batuimus" – translated into English as "We Build, We Fight."

The Seabees have several unofficial mottos as well. Their best known unofficial motto is the simple phrase "Can Do!", featured on much of their promotional material.

Other unofficial mottos include:

"With compassion for others, we build, we fight, for peace with freedom."
"With willing hearts and skillful hands, the difficult we do at once, the impossible takes a bit longer, miracles by appointment only."
"We can build anything with nothing in no time at all."
"First we dig 'em, then we die in 'em"
"We will either find a way or make one."
"We build, we fight, we party all night."
"I may be a seabee, but my wife is the queenbee."

The "Song of the Seabees" was written in 1943. The lyrics were composed by Sam M. Lewis and the musical composition was written by Peter DeRose. It is as follows:

We're the Seabees of the Navy, We can build and we can fight, We'll pave the way to victory And guard it day and night And we promise that we remember The "Seventh of December" We're the Seabees of the Navy, Bees of the Seven Seas

The Navy wanted men, That's where we came in, Mister Brown and Mister Jones, The Owens, the Cohens and Flynn, The Navy wanted more Of Uncle Sammy's kin So we all joined up And brother we're in to win

(Unofficial third verse) We're the Seabees of the Navy, The "Can Do" Bees in green, In war or peace you'll find us ready on the scene.

And no matter what our mission we'll uphold our proud tradition We're the Seabees of the Navy, Bees of the Seven Seas.

The first verse of the song, however, is usually the only verse to be sung or played at official functions.

(REF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabee)

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