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Underwater Construction Team One (UCT-1)


U.S. service members assigned to Underwater Construction Team One (UCT-1),
Title: U.S. service members assigned to Underwater Construction Team One (UCT-1), part of Navy Expeditionary Combat Force Europe-Africa/Task Force (CTF) 68, and military personnel from Norway and the Netherlands pose for a photo on a frozen lake in Skjold, Norway, during Exercise Cold Response 2020. UCT-1 deployed to Norway in support of Exercise Cold Response 2020 to execute joint maritime operations with Norwegian and Dutch military divers, demonstrating and improving capabilities in diving, port damage repair, and hydrographic surveying in an extreme cold weather/ice environment. 

Underwater Construction Team (UCT) 1 is made up of 78 personnel: 71 enlisted and seven commissioned officers. The command has a shore duty component and a sea duty component. Sea duty personnel are divided into three Construction Dive Detachments that deploy worldwide to conduct underwater construction /inspection/repair and demolition operations in support of both peacetime and wartime missions. The shore duty component contains all of the staff and support functions such as admin, supply, logistics, TOA maintenance, communications, and training.

UCT-1 is prepared to execute underwater construction tasking in both permissive and non-permissive environments and in climates ranging from the Tropics to extreme cold weather.

Underwater Construction Team One

Officers in Charge

LT H. Scott Stevenson

October 1969 – August 1972

LT Michael E. Weyler

November 1972 – October 1974

LCDR Ronald Erchul

November 1974 – February 1976

LCDR John Wood

March 1976 – September 1978
LCDR Geoffrey Cullison

October 1978 – June 1980

LCDR Tim Brandenburg

July 1980 – August 1982

LCDR Frank DiGeorge, III

September 1982 – July 1984

LCDR George Seltzer

August 1984 – August 1uly 1984


Commanding Officers

LCDR George Seltzer

August 1985 – October 1986
LCDR Arnold Bertsche

October 1986 –November 1988

LCDR Harold Reddish

December 1988 – May 1991

LCDR William Beary

June 1991 – June 1993

LCDR Jay Huston

June 1993 – July 1994

LCDR Ronald Ungaro

August 1994 – July 1996

LCDR David Boone

August 1996 – July 1998

LCDR John Rosner

July 1998 – June 2000

CDR Gregory J. Zielinski

June 2000 – June 2002

CDR David J. Robillard

June 2002 – July 2004

LCDR Michael R. Saum

July 2004 – May 2006

LCDR Daniel M. Stoddard

May 2006 – June 2008

LCDR Gregory C. Miller

June 2008 – June 2010

LCDR William R. Butler

June 2010 – June 2012

LCDR Charles W. Bisgard

June 2012 – June 2014

LCDR Benjamin Wainwright

June 2014 – June 2016

LCDR Joseph Dunaway

June 2016 – July 2018

LCDR James Johncock

July 2018 – June 2020

CDR Seth Mcguire

June 2020 – June 2022

CDR Michael Duffy      

 June 2022 - Present
Published: Mon Apr 22 10:23:01 EDT 2024