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NCHBs are Navy’s Expeditionary Logistics Experts

Combat Stevedores train to move cargo ashore and a? oat

By Edward Lundquist

Training for the Navy Cargo Handling Battalions (NCHBs) is conducted A new unit, NCBH-3 is coming online now and will be an active battalion.

at a specialize training facility at Cheatham Annex in Williamsburg, Virginia. The Cargo Handling Battalions are the current iteration of what began

According to the Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support Group’s (NA- as “Combat Stevedores” who served with the 41 “Special” Naval Construc-

VELSG) Command Master Chief Petty Of

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