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rooter · 03-10-2012, 03:47 AM

This has been my first notification about the book being written...Nope, I'm not 'hustling' book sales, but I find it of interest for I helped train many of the troops who much earlier in the '60's, had went 'down to the ice' during OPERATION DEEPFREEZE...
Seabee base, Davisville, Rhode Island..Naval Construction Training Unit...all ranks and ratings trained in the use of tools and equipments that would be taken down to the South Pole. It was to be, rotational type duty, and many of the troops would come back to Davisville and relate the whats, whys, whens, and hows...Lots of tall tales about liberty and shore leave in Australia and New Zealand...Chief

ADDED NOTE: Richard Havermale

Book is available of www.amazon.com
It is a short, fun read....warning it has a few four letter words. Search for it under Havermale

Seabee Book-Antarctica

Posted on March 9, 2012 at 11:35:27 PM
by Richard Havermale

Book Description
Publication Date: March 6, 2012
100 years ago Roland Amundsen on March 7, 1912 announced his success in reaching the Geographic South Pole to the world. This is the story about the construction of the South Pole Station in Antarctica in 1973-4 by Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB71), also known as the ICE Battalion, which the author was a member of. The difficulties encountered in the construction of the station were monumental; enduring temperatures reaching 45 degrees below zero with wind chill factors reaching 80 below. This station was comprised of a 52 foot high geodesic dome, weather balloon launch station and an observation tower for monitoring auroral phenomena. This Battalion was on the ICE for almost five months and worked around the clock to complete the project. This was an amazing fact when you consider that most of the construction was completed in freezing temperatures at a high altitude; for the South Pole is nearly two miles high by construction engineers less than 20 years old. The physical and mental stresses of working in this "frozen desert" took its tolls on these young men. This story chronicles the authors experience in this hostile environment, with bawdy engineers; humorous antics; hard drinking and temporary insanities and the authors faith journey amid the beautify and grandeur of the earth's last frontier: Antarctica. The title of the book is also the motto of the ICE Battalion—it refers to our mission and our R&R (rest and recreation) in Christchurch, New Zealand. “THE ICE IS NICE AND CHEE-CHEE IS PEACHY

03-10-2012, 03:47 AM	#1
rooter VMBB Senior Chief Of Staff Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Marty Robbins old hometown, Glendale Arizona--a suburb of Phoenix. Contributor Posts: 9,267	OUT OF THE PAST..... This has been my first notification about the book being written...Nope, I'm not 'hustling' book sales, but I find it of interest for I helped train many of the troops who much earlier in the '60's, had went 'down to the ice' during OPERATION DEEPFREEZE... Seabee base, Davisville, Rhode Island..Naval Construction Training Unit...all ranks and ratings trained in the use of tools and equipments that would be taken down to the South Pole. It was to be, rotational type duty, and many of the troops would come back to Davisville and relate the whats, whys, whens, and hows...Lots of tall tales about liberty and shore leave in Australia and New Zealand...Chief ADDED NOTE: Richard Havermale Book is available of www.amazon.com It is a short, fun read....warning it has a few four letter words. Search for it under Havermale Seabee Book-Antarctica Posted on March 9, 2012 at 11:35:27 PM by Richard Havermale Book Description Publication Date: March 6, 2012 100 years ago Roland Amundsen on March 7, 1912 announced his success in reaching the Geographic South Pole to the world. This is the story about the construction of the South Pole Station in Antarctica in 1973-4 by Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB71), also known as the ICE Battalion, which the author was a member of. The difficulties encountered in the construction of the station were monumental; enduring temperatures reaching 45 degrees below zero with wind chill factors reaching 80 below. This station was comprised of a 52 foot high geodesic dome, weather balloon launch station and an observation tower for monitoring auroral phenomena. This Battalion was on the ICE for almost five months and worked around the clock to complete the project. This was an amazing fact when you consider that most of the construction was completed in freezing temperatures at a high altitude; for the South Pole is nearly two miles high by construction engineers less than 20 years old. The physical and mental stresses of working in this "frozen desert" took its tolls on these young men. This story chronicles the authors experience in this hostile environment, with bawdy engineers; humorous antics; hard drinking and temporary insanities and the authors faith journey amid the beautify and grandeur of the earth's last frontier: Antarctica. The title of the book is also the motto of the ICE Battalion—it refers to our mission and our R&R (rest and recreation) in Christchurch, New Zealand. “THE ICE IS NICE AND CHEE-CHEE IS PEACHY __________________ -->