Homing planned in Floyd for Navy Seabee - Southwest Virginia Today

Family and friends will be welcoming home a Navy Seabee Friday, June 27. The homecoming for Travis E. Duncan, who is an equipment operator and Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy, will begin at 5:30 p.m. on the courthouse lawn.

Among those who will be greeting him are wife Crystal, children Gracie Mae, 5, Carlee Dell, 3, and Troy Everett, 8 months, mother Diane Hollandsworth, nanny Iva Dell Hollandsworth and in-laws Henry and Cheryl Wilmer.

Duncan is currently on deployment in Bahrain at Isa Air Base, where he has been since January. A Floyd County High School graduate, he joined the Navy in December 2004 and attended boot camp in Great Lakes, Illinois. He went to A-School at Fort Leonard Wood, MO in February 2005. His first permanent duty station was in Gulfport, MS in May of 2005 with NMCB 7, from where he deployed to Camp Beuhring Kuwait for 7 months for the K-Crossing Project, to San Clemente Island, California for 6.5 months for improving roads, excavating and installing culverts, to Iraq and Afghanistan (split deployment 6.5 months) for the drilling water wells and convoys (Iraq). He was redeployed to Afghanistan, where he was loading equipment on planes to move to Iraq.

“In Afghanistan I pushed berms, graded roads and interiors of camps and excavated for an ammo facility,” he said.

Duncan was transferred to Virginia Beach, VA in October of 2009 with CBMU 202 (shore duty), where he worked on projects supporting the Hampton Roads Bases and Communities within and worked as the Transportation Supervisor, License Examiner and Dispatcher.

He went to Okinawa, Japan for exercises and worked festivals in Virginia Beach, Norfolk and Portsmouth educating the public about what a U.S. Navy Seabee is.

Duncan was transferred back to Gulfport, MS in November of 2012 with NMCB 74. He did 2 months of the deployment to Okinawa Japan, and worked as a Battalion License Examiner/Road Master/Accident Investigator and Shooting Range Coach during Battalions. When in Homeport, he does Field Exercises and training/classes.

When Duncan gets back from deployment, he will first see his wife in MS, and then on June 27th they will come to Floyd, where their children have been staying with their grandmother. The family said everyone is welcome to come to the hometown welcome for Duncan on June 27th to show their support for him.

After the visit in Floyd, Crystal and the children will return to their home in Gulfport, MS.