sent 2 officers and 100 men to Bora Bora to augment the Bobcats. In the fall of 1943 the Bobcats had completed their work and had received orders to join B Co at Nouméa. However, those orders changed redesignateing the Bobcats and A Co. as 3rd battalion 22nd Marines commanded by Colonel Ayers. At that time the remainder of A Co. (5 officers and 292 enlisted) was transferred to the Marines. Since neither the Bobcats nor A Co had received any advanced military training in the States the 22nd put them through USMC boot training in the field. When the Marines finished they took the Seabees back to Hawaii where the regiment received amphibious warfare training. With that completed the 3rd Battalion was tasked as shore party, engineers and demolitions men for the landings in the Marshalls. At Kwajalein, Roi-Namur, and Eniwetok 3rd Battalion was the assault