The Seabee Grapevine
My name is Normand Dupuis; I host an email
SEABEE community affectionately dubbed the “Seabee Grapevine” as part of my
volunteer public information campaign. We have Seabees and their family members
from all eras, including many from WW II right up to those currently serving
today. Anyone can join the Seabee Grapevine and receive frequent e-mail on a
wide variety of Seabee related topics. Each email message is sent as a blind
copy to all 250 plus members of the Grapevine to protect the privacy of personal
e-mail addresses. I will not share your address with anyone without your express
permission. If a shipmate wishes, he may be dropped at his request at any time,
no questions asked. To be added to the Seabee Grapevine simply send an email
request to me at NORMANDChf@aol.com
The SEABEE grapevine described above
was born out of the OPERATION SEABEES KNOWLEDGE website at
www.seabeesinfohq.org
which I co-founded in 2004 with author Joe Buff, son of a SEABEE. After sixteen
years as a SEABEE reservist I felt it was necessary to find a way to get the
current civilian population and even our own military members more informed
about SEABEES past and present. Too many people mistake SEABEES in camouflage
uniforms to be Marines, Soldiers, or Navy Seals, but very few recognize them as
SEABEES right away. Then there is the problem of trying to adequately describe
all the many things that SEABEES do to a clueless person in a few sentences.
That isn’t necessary for the other military communities listed above, who have
had wide coverage in books, films, magazines, and on television. SEABEES should
be just as widely recognized as the others are which is the main goal of our
public information effort. We accomplish lots of other fine things at the same
time, but you’ll need to get on the grapevine to appreciate all that.
“ATTWOSK! “- All The Way with O.S.K.
Normand Dupuis
EOC USNR (Ret.)
RNMCB-23, CBHU-14, NMCB-14
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