Yup-- old jokes we heard about the Sea-Bees while "In Country"
(1) If you go with the alpha notation, C-B-- that means "Confused Bastards"-- (2) WW11- PTO-- a Navy Corpsman reports to the C.O. that they have discovered cases or Beri-Beri at the Sea-Bees camp-- The C.O. tells the Corpsman- "Hell, sent it over to the Marines- those crazy jarheads will drink anything!"

All kidding aside- in my beloved USMC, we hold the lives of the Navy Corpsmen as a sacred thing-- We may joke about "Swabbies", just as Navy enlisted call us "Sea-going bellhops"- etc. But we protect the Corpsmen- they are "life savers"..

"The field is the touchstone of the man"..