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The area was approximately 42.8 hectares in size and contained some 387 housing units, a Commissary/Navy Exchange, Richard E. Byrd Elementary School, Branch Health Clinic (medical/dental), Combined Bachelor Housing, swimming pool, community center, Security Detachment, and other small infrastructural services to support the residents of the community.
In 2023, the base built a wall of shipping containers inside its fence to prevent stray bullets from getting to base housing and base buildings. In late 2022, bullets entered the base from a non-Navy housing development, causing damage to buildings and endangering personnel and families. Other incidents followed. [22] [23]
The current workforce (military/civil service/contractor) numbers more than 11,000 with an additional 3,600 people in on-base family housing. [5] Of the three Naval Weapons Stations on the U.S. East Coast, the Charleston facility is the largest.
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.
Naval Base Subic Bay was a major ship-repair, supply, and rest and recreation facility of the Spanish Navy and subsequently the United States Navy located in Zambales, Philippines. The base was 262 square miles (680 km 2 ), about the size of Singapore. [ 1 ]
The oldest building on the base are Quarters F, a Victorian house that predates the Navy base and was built as the superintendent's house for the earlier Chicora Park (that the Navy acquired and converted into the base). [4] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. [1
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 units of military housing were constructed. [12]
Naval Station Great Lakes is the largest military installation in Illinois and the largest training station in the Navy. The base has 1,153 buildings situated on 1,628 acres (6.59 km 2 ) and has 69 mi (111 km) of roadway to provide access to the base's facilities.