In this two-part series, former U.S. Navy Seabee Mel Pierson talks about his combat duty during the Vietnam war, and his struggles with alcohol addiction after he left the service. Read more about ...

“They always kept us busy,” said Ziegler, adding how his unit of Seabees was ordered on occasion to patch up holes made in runways by enemy fire. In between jobs, the battalion was assigned to fix up ...