CAMP JOHNSON, NC -- Navy Seabees are busy building roads and relationship with Marines. On Tuesday, the sailors were constructing a road on Camp Johnson, NC during Bold Alligator 2012.
The exercise began Jan. 30 and will run through Feb. 12, on and off the coasts of Virginia, North Carolina and Florida. The exercise is designed to revitalize Navy and Marine Corps amphibious expeditionary tactics, techniques and procedures, and reinvigorate its culture of conducting combined Navy and Marine Corps operations from the sea, a Navy statement said.
"It's enormously important for the Navy to start learning an awful lot about Marine Corps operations and getting a landing force ashore, and how that land force operates," Navy Adm. John C. Harvey Jr. said Tuesday at a Defense Writers Group breakfast.
"And it's enormously important for the Marine forces to understand what it took to get the naval force to the position where you could land the assault forces and sustain those assault forces," he added. "That part of this education, I think, will be the greatest benefit to this exercise."
