Naval Mobile Construction Battalion SEVEN (NMCB 7) was a Navy Seabee battalion lasted homeported at Naval Construction Battalion Center, Gulfport Mississippi. Nicknamed the "Magnificent Seven", it is one of the first ten Naval Construction Battalions formed by the U.S. Navy in 1942. History United States Naval Construction Battalion 7 (NCB 7) was commissioned on 17 June 1942 at the Naval Construction Training Center, Camp Allen, Norfolk, Virginia, under the command of Commander Julius L. Piland, CEC, USNR. WWII through 1970s During World War II, NCB 7 made two deployments. The first was to Samoa and Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. They had only been at Pago Pago, Samoa eight days when they were ordered forward to Espiritu Santo. The battalion arrived in August and constructed an airfield in 60 days. They were then tasked with two more as well as a large naval base. One field was for fighters the other two were for bombers. For the Naval Station they constructed 12 docks, 2 hospitals and 19 communications towers, In addition they built camps for eight other units, plus 42 miles of roadway with two bridges. The second deployment went to Iroquois Point, Hawaii Territory where the Seabees built themselves a camp consisting of four fully self contained 1000 man compounds for battalions. From there CB 7 transitioned forward via Saipan, in the Marianas to Buckner Bay Okinawa. There the battalion had two large projects. The first was a docking facility that could handle the simultaneous offloading of multiple ships. The second was a major seaplane base. An atypical assignment was the battalions divers salvaging a minesweeper that had been sunk by Fukuryu swimmers or "kamikaze frogmen". The battalion was decommissioned on 30 October 1945 in Okinawa. On 22 August 1951, MCB 7 was commissioned for a second time at the U.S. Naval Yards and Docks Supply Depot in Davisville, Rhode Island, under the command of Lieutenant Commander Robert F. Smart, CEC USNR. Seabee battalions assigned to the Atlantic fleet did not deploy to the Korean conflict. The battalion's first two deployments were back to back to Naval Air Station Port Lyautey, Morocco. From October 1957 to August 1959, MCB 7 set a record by remaining deployed to three islands in the West Indies, completing the largest construction project ever undertaken by a peace time Atlantic Construction Battalion, two complete Coast Guard LORAN Stations. In 1961 the battalion was ordered to