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Aerial view of Naval Base Point Loma. Submarine Group, San Diego was established in 1946, and Submarine Flotilla 1 was activated in 1949. In 1959 Fort Rosecrans was turned over to the United States Navy. The Navy Submarine Support Facility was established in November 1963 on 280 acres (1.1 km 2) of the land. [4]
Aerial view of the Naval Medical Center San Diego as seen in the 1950s An entirely new $270 million hospital complex was built in Florida Canyon, north of the original hospital, during the mid-1980s; the site was chosen at the urging of then- U.S. Representative Bob Wilson , after whom the new hospital complex was subsequently named.
On 15 September 1946, the Secretary of the Navy re-designated the repair base Naval Station, San Diego. By the end of 1946, the base had grown to 294 buildings [ 3 ] with floor space square footage of more than 6,900,000 square feet (640,000 m 2 ), berthing facilities included five piers of more than 18,000 feet (5,500 m) of berthing space.
Naval Amphibious Base Coronado (NAB Coronado) is a US naval installation in San Diego, California.The base, situated on Silver Strand between San Diego Bay and the Pacific Ocean, is a major United States Navy shore command, supporting over 30 tenant commands, and is the West Coast focal point for special and expeditionary warfare training and operations.
Pacific Fleet opened as part of the initial 15.9-mile (25.6 km) "South Line" of the San Diego Trolley system on July 26, 1981, operating from San Ysidro north to downtown San Diego using the main line tracks of the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway. [4] [1]
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Navy Medicine Training Support Command, San Antonio, Texas; Naval Medical Leader and Professional Development Command, Bethesda, Maryland; Other commands: Naval Medical Research Command, Silver Spring, Maryland [19] Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, California; Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory, Groton, Connecticut
In 1997, San Diego became the headquarters of the Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), now the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR), formerly located in the Washington, D.C., area [3] and is now located in the Old Town neighborhood. NAVWAR and its subordinate Echelon III Activities provide much of the tactical ...