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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 ...
Naval Hospital Long Beach (1941-1950), now VA Long Beach Healthcare System; Naval Dispensaries; Naval Reserve Aviation Base Long Beach, NRAB Long Beach, at Daugherty Field now Long Beach Airport (1928-1947) Naval Disbursing and Transportation Officer, San Pedro; Small Craft Training Center (SCTC) was on Roosevelt Base, but operated independently.
In 1927, a civilian facility, Allen Field, was established on Terminal Island. The Naval Reserve established a training center at the field and later took complete control, designating the field Naval Air Base San Pedro (also called Reeves Field). [7]: 60 In 1941, the Long Beach Naval Station was located adjacent to the airfield. In 1942, the ...
Some 400 miles north of Long Beach, critics say there are many reasons to be skeptical. The Navy has made similar safety claims about the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco.
The home port was Long Beach Naval Base, now Terminal Island in Los Angeles, California. The U.S. Navy presence was so large that in 1932 nearly 50 ships of the Pacific Fleet anchored in its harbor.
This being an issue, Congress finally granted authority to an independent Defense Base Closure and Realignment (BRAC) commission to work with the Department of Defense (DoD) to identify bases and installations to the executive and legislative branches for closure or realignment between 1988 and 1995. The BRAC had to responsibility of selecting ...
Naval Base San Diego; Naval Base Coronado. Naval Amphibious Base Coronado; Naval Air Station North Island; Naval Outlying Field Imperial Beach; Naval Auxiliary Landing Field San Clemente Island; Naval Base Point Loma; Naval Medical Center San Diego; Naval Air Facility El Centro; Naval Air Station Lemoore; Naval Support Activity Monterey [1 ...
She remained at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard until her transfer to the Naval Reserve Fleet on September 27, 1954; she was decommissioned on December 21, 1954 at Hunters Point Naval Ship Yard. After nearly eleven years in reserve at Suisun Bay, the Repose was recommissioned on October 16, 1965 for service in Vietnam. Arriving on January 3, 1966 ...