Seabees celebrate annual Oktobeefest in Gulfport - WXXV News 25

To grant comradery betwixt Seabee brothers and sisters, the Seabee Historical Foundation hosted its yearly Oktobeefest.

Seabees from the Coast gathered contiguous astatine Chandeleur Island Brewing Company to observe the yearly Oktobeefest.

Dressed successful their champion Oktoberfest gear, existent and seasoned Seabees headed to the enactment wherever they were capable to drawback up with brothers and sisters they whitethorn person not seen successful a while.

The past 3 years, the lawsuit has been held successful Ocean Springs, but was moved to Gulfport this year.

However, Oktobeefest is an lawsuit that’s held crossed the full state with this twelvemonth spanning 13 places from present to Guam.

Guests were besides capable to enactment successful a raffle for a Seabee crystal thorax with each proceeds going to the Seabee Memorial Scholarship Association. Seabee Historical Foundation Executive Director/ CEC Dan Miller said, “Mostly it’s conscionable everybody conscionable getting unneurotic and reconnecting. People successful the Navy question astir the satellite and they abstracted from each different for years astatine a time, and this is simply a large lawsuit for radical to travel backmost and reconnect existent and retired subject arsenic well.”

All guests were besides fixed a solid with the Oktobeefest 80-year Seabee day logo connected it.