Seabee Gunners Mate Inspects a Machine Gun

Petty Officer 3rd Class Christopher Acevedo, gunner's mate, from Detroit assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 3, inspects the barrell of a M240B machine gun, here, Jan. 31. NMCBs use heavy machine guns for convoy and camp defence in contigency environments. Here with the heavy dust of Afghanistan special attention to cleaning all weapons must be adhered to to ensure that it operates correctly if the need arises. NMCB 3 is deployed to southern Afghanistan to provide construction and engineering support to the regional commands. NMCB 3 is an expeditionary element of U.S. Naval Forces providing construction, engineering and security services in support of national strategy, naval power projection, humanitarian assistance and contingency operations.