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Naval Station Rota, also known as NAVSTA Rota (IATA: ROZ, ICAO: LERT) (Spanish: Base Naval de Rota), is a Spanish-U.S. naval base commanded by a Spanish rear admiral. [2] Located in Rota in the Province of Cádiz , NAVSTA Rota is the largest American military community in Spain , housing U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps personnel.
1 October 1993 – Organization was downgraded from a Command to a Detachment, reporting directly to Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Mediterranean (NCTAMS MED) in Naples, Italy as a result of region-wide U.S. military reorganizations following the end of the Cold War. This also resulted in a name change to “Naval ...
Rota is also the location of the Rota naval base, a joint Spanish and U.S. naval base, opened in 1955 (which also hosts U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force units). It is also the usual first and last port of call for U.S. naval vessels after leaving the Mediterranean Sea. Once contributing up to 80 percent of Rota's economy directly or ...
From 1991 through 2002 NMCB 7 completed ten deployments to Naval Station Rota, Spain; Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, Puerto Rico, Guam, and Camp Shields,Okinawa. In 2003, NMCB 7 deployed to Southwest Asia in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The Battalion supported Marine units by constructing roads and maintaining camps throughout Kuwait and ...
Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron VQ-2, also known as "Batmen" and later "Sandeman," was an air reconnaissance squadron of the United States Navy, established on 1 September 1955 and based at NAS Whidbey Island, previously at NAVSTA Rota, Spain, flying both Douglas EA-3B Skywarrior and Lockheed EP-3E Aries aircraft until 1991 and then strictly EP-3E aircraft until 2012.
On 5 October 2011, U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced that the United States Navy will station four Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System warships at Naval Station Rota, Spain, to strengthen its presence in the Mediterranean Sea and bolster the ballistic missile defense (BMD) of NATO as part of the European Phased Adaptive ...
On 15 May 1999, NMCB 3 headed to Rota, Spain where shortly after arriving on station, the battalion was called into action in support of Joint Task Force, Shining Hope. NMCB 3 repaired roads in Northern Albania that were weakened by the steady flow of more than 800,000 Albanian refugees from Kosovo and years of neglect.
Pictograms of sea turtles in a Rota cave. In 1521, the first European to see Rota was the lookout on Ferdinand Magellan's ship Victoria, Lope Navarro.However, Magellan's armada of three ships did not stop until they reached Guam, so the first European to arrive in Rota (in 1524), was the Spanish navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano, who annexed it together with the rest of the Mariana Islands on ...