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U.S. Navy Seabees are presented with the Purple Heart medal on May 8, 2006, for wounds received while serving in support of the war on terror. They are assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 123 at Construction Battalion Center, Gulfport, Miss.

U.S. Navy Seabees are presented with the Purple Heart medal.

U.S. Navy Seabees are presented with the Purple Heart medal on May 8, 2006, for wounds received while serving in support of the war on terror. They are assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 123 at Construction Battalion Center, Gulfport, Miss.

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