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Pages in category "Closed installations of the United States Navy" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 328 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Formerly Used Defense Sites located in California. Formerly Used Defense Sites−FUDS (est.1986) — U.S. military program for assessment and environmental restoration of closed military installations of the U.S. Department of Defense.
The Navy officially closed NTC on April 30, 1997, and all military operations ceased. [5] The southernmost portion of the base was not closed but was retained by the military under the control of Naval Base Point Loma. Facilities still in military use include a medical clinic, a small Navy Exchange store and a gas station. In addition, 500 ...
On Sept. 8, 2005, the Department of Defense's Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC) gave President George W. Bush a list of 20 major military installations that it had determined were no ...
USS Nevada and Mobile at Long Beach Naval Shipyard, 1990. Long Beach NSY was evaluated under every round of Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) for possible closure since the inception of the BRAC process in 1988. [9] In 1993, California congressmen Horn and Rohrabacher cited the military value of the shipyard [10] in a successful attempt to ...
San Pedro Submarine Base became a submarine School for enlisted sailors in October 1917. The base had 525 Navy personnel stationed at the San Pedro Submarine Base. In 1917 the Navy also founded the Naval Reserve Training Station with the F-class submarines: F-1, F-2, and F-3. The base closed in 1923 and the submarines moved to Naval Base San Diego.
Skaggs Island Naval Communication Station is a former United States Navy installation located near California State Route 37 between Novato and Vallejo, California.It was a secretive, secure, and self-contained naval base, engaged in a number of communications and intelligence gathering functions for the Navy and other federal intelligence organizations.
The naval base was closed on 31 March 1996, with more than 7,500 civilians on its payroll, [7] and has gone through several redevelopment phases. It was registered as a California Historical Landmark in 1960, [ 2 ] and parts of it were declared a National Historic Landmark District in 1975.