Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 62 Alumni Group

NMCB 62 Minutemen History

NMCB 62 First Deployment.
Operation Order to Camp Lejeune for Pre-Deployment Training prior to Vietnam

First Deployment Lejeune Orders

Camp Lejeune Seabee Records

NMCB 62 Second Deployment.
Operation Order to Camp Lejeune for Pre-Deployment Training prior to Vietnam

2nd Deployment Predeployment

Camp Lejeune Seabee Records

U.S. Navy Seabee Museum Online Reading Room

NMCB 62 Deployment by Number

NMCB 62 Deployment by Number - Slideshow

Vietnam-era Seabees Memorial - Gulfport Mississippi

Just Do it, Crazy or Not.
NMCB 62 Member UTCS Irvin Hornkohl, WWII and Vietnam Veteran wrote a book about his life adventures.

Chief Irvin Hornkohl, a 30 year Navy veteran, along with author Mary Penner, has written a book about his life's adventures. The book, Just Do It, Crazy or Not, is published by Manzano Alley Press. As a Seabee, Irvin served two tours in Vietnam with NMCB 62 and 6201. Written in his natural storytelling voice, readers view the Vietnam War from the perspective of a Seabee. He had several close encounters with the Viet Cong while working with the local Vietnamese to improve their living conditions. Irvin was also a resident Seabee at American embassies in Prague, behind the Iron Curtain, and in Cambodia in the early 1970s when the Khmer Rouge battled for control of that country.
Now 88 years old, Irvin's Navy adventures began long before Vietnam. He was a 17 year old raw recruit assigned to the USSOklahoma in 1941. A twist of fate enabled him to survive the attack at Pearl Harbor. He went on to serve on 11 wartime patrols on three submarines, and he was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps medal for heroic conduct for a nighttime rescue of Australian commandos on the island of Timor in 1943.
Order a copy of the book and learn more about the unforgettable Irvin Hornkohl at the publisher's website: www.manzanoalley.com