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Navy Cargo Handling Bataillon 1 Conducts Training in Saipan

Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) 1st Class David Sweza, a native of Dumas, Arkansas, and Boatswain’s Mate Seaman Owen Smith, a native of Vernal, Utah, both assigned to Navy Cargo Handling Battalion (NCHB) 1, attach high-performance cargo slings to a crane during crane operator training evolution aboard Military Sealift Command maritime prepositioning force container, roll-on/roll-off and mobile landing platform USNS Dahl (T-AKR 312). NCHB-1, Detachment Guam, assigned to Commander, Navy Expeditionary Forces Command Pacific, is the Navy’s only active duty cargo handling battalion. They are a rapidly deployable unit of the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command, capable of loading and discharging ships and aircraft in all-climatic and threat conditions.