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Fleet Readiness Center Western Pacific (FRC WESTPAC) is an aircraft maintenance unit of the United States Navy. It is located at Naval Air Facility Atsugi , Japan. It is a subsidiary of the Navy's Commander, Fleet Readiness Center (COMFRC) .
Fleet Readiness Center West (FRCW) is located in Lemoore Station, California, and is part of Naval Air Station Lemoore. [1] It is a subsidiary of the Navy's Fleet Readiness Center Command Responsibilities
Fleet Readiness Center Southwest (FRCSW) is an American naval aviation repair and maintenance facility based at the NAS North Island complex in San Diego, California. History [ edit ]
Also in DET A were three S-3 Vikings from VS-21, and two SH-60 Seahawks from HS-14. The initial plan for CVW-5 was to provide air defense during the USS Kitty Hawk's transit to station. The Air Wing was able to work around the Special Operations mission, however, and established a more offensive mission for themselves.
Iwakuni Station is served by the JR West Sanyō Main Line, and is located 346.1 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Kobe. It is also the terminus of the 43.7 kilometer Gantoku Line to Tokuyama. Additionally, trains from the Nishikigawa Seiryū Line inter-run over the Gantoku Line and terminate at Iwakuni.
Fleet Readiness Center Northwest (FRCNW) is located in Oak Harbor, Washington and is part of Naval Air Station Whidbey Island. Although originally named Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Detachment and established in 1959, it was changed on October 10, 2008, and is a subsidiary of the Navy's Fleet Readiness Center Command .
Strike Fighter Squadron 147 (VFA-147), also known as the "Argonauts," is a United States Navy strike fighter squadron based at MCAS Iwaukuni, Japan. [1] VFA-147 was established on 1 February 1967 and flies the F-35C Lightning II, as the first non-training F-35C squadron in the U.S. Navy and the first forward-deployed F-35C squadron as a member of CVW-5.
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.