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Naval Support Activity Lakehurst (NSA Lakehurst) is the United States Navy element representing USN and USMC entities for the Department of the Navy–specific asset and resources at Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst (JB MDL), and administrative control over Naval personnel who are assigned to units that are assigned to the base.
Naval Base Guam (1944–current), the main Naval installation on Apra Harbor and its various components; Commander Naval Forces Marianas (1944–current), responsible for U.S. Naval activities in the region; Joint Region Marianas (2009–current), naval region of the U.S. Navy that includes Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
The United States Navy purchased the property in 1921 for use as an airship station and renamed it Naval Air Station Lakehurst. [8] The Navy's lighter-than-air program was conducted at Lakehurst through the 1930s. It was the site of the 1937 LZ 129 Hindenburg airship disaster. During World War II, anti-submarine patrol blimps were operated from ...
The Navy code named the type of base the Seabees built for its size and purpose, i.e. Oak, Acorn, Lion and Cub. A Lion was a main base for the fleet. Naval base Guam was the first named Naval Operating Base and later nicknamed The Pacific Supermarket. In recent years, expansion of the base has been opposed by many locals in Guam. [4]
Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans: Alvin Callender Field Belle Chasse: Louisiana: N/A Navy Region Southeast [16] Naval Air Station North Island: Halsey Field San Diego: California: Naval Base Coronado: Navy Region Southwest [17] Naval Air Station Oceana: Apollo Soucek Field Virginia Beach: Virginia: N/A Navy Region Mid-Atlantic [18]
An exchange is a type of retail store found on United States military installations worldwide. Once similar to trading posts, today they resemble modern department stores or strip malls. The terminology varies by armed service; some examples include base exchange (BX), and post exchange (PX), and there are more specific terms for subtypes of ...
The facility dates back to 1944, immediately after the 1944 Battle of Guam.It was previously designated Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Western Pacific (NCTAMS WESTPAC), before those responsibilities were merged with NCTAMS EASTPAC to form NCTAMS PAC in Honolulu in 2000, and the Guam facility was redesignated a NCTS.
In January 2024, the US Navy requested a new permit for the installation and maintenance of mine training areas off the coasts of Hawaii and Southern California, as the Pacific Ocean, according to the command, is a priority theater of operations amid tensions with China.