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Naval Station Norfolk

January 26, 2023

Naval Station Norfolk is a United States Navy base in Norfolk, Virginia, that is the headquarters and home port of the U.S. Navy's Fleet Forces Command. The installation occupies about 4 miles (6.4 km) of waterfront space and 11 miles (18 km) of pier and wharf space of the Hampton Roads peninsula known as Sewell's Point. It is the world's largest naval station, with the largest concentration of U.S. Navy forces through 75 ships alongside 14 piers and with 134 aircraft and 11 aircraft hangars at the adjacently operated Chambers Field.[1] Port Services controls more than 3,100 ships' movements annually as they arrive and depart their berths.

Naval Station Norfolk
Part of Navy Region Mid-Atlantic
Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Various destroyers, replenishment oilers, cruisers, submarines, frigates, aircraft carriers and some other ships and an amphibious assault ship in Naval Station Norfolk. Pictured December 20, 2012.
Coordinates36°56′42″N 76°18′47″W / 36.94500°N 76.31306°W / 36.94500; -76.31306Coordinates: 36°56′42″N 76°18′47″W / 36.94500°N 76.31306°W / 36.94500; -76.31306
TypeNaval Base
Site information
Owner United States
Operator United States Navy
Open to
the public		No
Site history
BuiltJuly 4, 1917 (July 4, 1917)
In use1917 (1917)–present
Garrison information
Current
commander		CAPT David Dees
OccupantsCommander, Navy Region Mid-Atlantic
Commander, Navy Warfare Development Command

Air Operations conducts over 100,000 flight operations each year, an average of 275 flights per day or one every six minutes. Over 150,000 passengers and 264,000 tons of mail and cargo depart annually on Air Mobility Command (AMC) aircraft and other AMC-chartered flights from the airfield's AMC Terminal.[2]

History

 
Aircraft carrier USS Yorktown docked at then–NOB Norfolk in October 1937.

The area where the base is located was the site of the original 1907 Jamestown Exposition.[3]

In 1915, the Headquarters of the 5th Naval District was established. In April 1917, shortly after the United States entered World War I, a bill was passed for the purchase of the land, and money was set aside in the amount of $1.6 million for the development of the base. The Naval Operating Base (NOB) and other facilities were established. By 1918, there were 34,000 enlisted men at the base.[3] However, by the war's end, the base was reduced in personnel and put into a "standby mode."[4]

 
Iowa-class battleships USS New Jersey and USS Missouri at NS Norfolk in 1954.

When World War II began in Europe in 1939, the base became more active again. New facilities were built, including new runways for aircraft, part of Naval Air Station Norfolk. It also had ramps built to be used by seaplanes to be operated by the Navy during the war.[3] About 400 acres was acquired and, by 1943, the air station had become a central airfield for operations. Due to the expansion, it contributed to ending the war because of the training it provided to naval air units.[5]

In March 1946, the Chief of Naval Operations ordered the Commandant of the 5th Naval District to place NOB Norfolk and NAS Norfolk as separate installations under the command of Commandant Naval Base, whose title was soon changed to Commander, Navy Region, Mid-Atlantic.[6]

Following World War II, NOB Norfolk became the primary base of the Atlantic Fleet. It was one of the largest naval bases in the world.

On 1 January 1953, the name of the naval base was officially changed to Naval Station Norfolk (NS Norfolk), after being known as the NOB.[5]

In 1968, the Naval Air Station was given a major role in John F. Kennedy's vision of putting a man on the moon. The air station became Recovery Control Center Atlantic, which provided command, control, and communications for the ships and aircraft that participated in the recovery operations of Apollo 7.[5]

Due to the end of the Cold War, a drawdown began in the 1990s, and the Navy began reducing shore installations to help with operating costs. Due to this, the Navy merged the separate Naval Station Norfolk and Naval Air Station Norfolk into a single installation to be called Naval Station Norfolk, which became official on 5 February 1999.[5]

Following the attack on USS Cole and 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks, the base had some major upgrades to its security gates, costing more than $12.5 million.[5]

On 26 January 2017, NS Norfolk celebrated its centennial at the Pennsylvania House, a historical building built for the Jamestown Exposition,[7] located on the base.[8]

Incidents

On Easter (3 April) of 1988, members of the anti-nuclear group Plowshares boarded the battleship USS Iowa with visitors for a ship's tour and left their group to do symbolic damage to the ship's empty Tomahawk missile launchers, using hammers and their own blood.[9]

On March 24, 2014, a shooting at NS Norfolk resulted in the death of a sailor and a civilian. The shooting occurred around 11:20 p.m. EDT aboard USS Mahan. Security forces shot and killed the civilian who had allegedly shot the sailor aboard the vessel.[10] The base was closed for a short time after the shooting on USS Mahan.[11]

On 26 July 2022, a severe thunderstorm with winds of 60 miles per hour (97 km/h) and over caused nine helicopters assigned to Naval Station Norfolk to be damaged. Damaged aircraft include the MH-60 Seahawk and MH-53E Sea Dragon, according to the Navy.[12]

Operational Units

Naval Station Norfolk is home port of four carrier strike groups and their assigned ships. In addition, the Naval Station plays host to several Military Sealift Command ships, as well as the submarines of the Atlantic Fleet.

As of October 2022, the following operational units are headquartered or homeported at Naval Station Norfolk:

Carrier Strike Groups (CARSTRKGRU)

Destroyer Squadrons (DESRONS)

Submarine Squadron (SUBRON)

Aircraft carriers

Cruisers

Amphibious assault


Guided missile destroyers

Submarines


Military sealift command

Air Squadrons

Main article: Naval Station Norfolk Chambers Field § Tenant Commands

Tenant/Shore Commands

In addition to the several operational units, Naval Station Norfolk is also headquarters to a number of shore activities that provided administrative and specialty support to regional operational assets, and in some cases, the entire Navy.

As of June 2021, these included:

See also

References

  This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Navy.

  1. ^ "History of Naval Station Norfolk". from the original on 2010-12-06. Retrieved 2009-05-04.
  2. ^ "NS Norfolk History". cnic.navy.mil. from the original on 2015-11-17. Retrieved 2015-11-16.
  3. ^ a b c "Naval Station Norfolk - History". CNIC. from the original on 24 March 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
  4. ^ "NS Norfolk Naval Base in Norfolk, VA | MilitaryBases.com". Military Bases. from the original on 2017-03-24. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  5. ^ a b c d e "History of Naval Station Norfolk | Naval Station Norfolk Base Guide & Telephone Directory". www.nsnbg.com. from the original on 2017-03-12. Retrieved 2017-03-26.
  6. ^ Pike, John. "Naval Station Norfolk". www.globalsecurity.org. from the original on 2017-05-09. Retrieved 2017-03-26.
  7. ^ Hansen, Louis. "What's in a name? | Pennsylvania House, Norfolk". Virginian-Pilot. from the original on 2017-03-24. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  8. ^ "Naval Station Norfolk Centennial". CNIC. from the original on 24 March 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
  9. ^ "An Activist Nun Trying To Provoke People To Think". The Philadelphia Inquirer. from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  10. ^ "Family: Military Policeman Was Shooting Victim". CBS Local. Associated Press. 25 March 2014. from the original on 25 March 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
  11. ^ West, Rachel (25 March 2014). "Navy ID's shooter in USS Mahan death". WAVY-TV. from the original on 25 March 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
  12. ^ Nine Navy helicopters damaged in Norfolk storm, Diana Stancy Correll, NavyTimes, 2022-07-28

External links

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Naval Station Norfolk.
  • Official website
  • Flagship - military-authorized newspaper of NAS Norfolk and Commander Navy Region Mid-Atlantic
  • NS Norfolk at GlobalSecurity.org
  • FAA Airport Diagram (PDF), effective December 29, 2022
  • FAA Terminal Procedures for NGU, effective December 29, 2022
  • Resources for this U.S. military airport:
    • FAA airport information for NGU
    • AirNav airport information for KNGU
    • ASN accident history for NGU
    • NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
    • SkyVector aeronautical chart for KNGU

January 26, 2023
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Naval Station Norfolk is a United States Navy base in Norfolk Virginia that is the headquarters and home port of the U S Navy s Fleet Forces Command The installation occupies about 4 miles 6 4 km of waterfront space and 11 miles 18 km of pier and wharf space of the Hampton Roads peninsula known as Sewell s Point It is the world s largest naval station with the largest concentration of U S Navy forces through 75 ships alongside 14 piers and with 134 aircraft and 11 aircraft hangars at the adjacently operated Chambers Field 1 Port Services controls more than 3 100 ships movements annually as they arrive and depart their berths Naval Station NorfolkPart of Navy Region Mid AtlanticNorfolk Virginia United StatesVarious destroyers replenishment oilers cruisers submarines frigates aircraft carriers and some other ships and an amphibious assault ship in Naval Station Norfolk Pictured December 20 2012 Coordinates36 56 42 N 76 18 47 W 36 94500 N 76 31306 W 36 94500 76 31306 Coordinates 36 56 42 N 76 18 47 W 36 94500 N 76 31306 W 36 94500 76 31306TypeNaval BaseSite informationOwner United StatesOperator United States NavyOpen tothe publicNoSite historyBuiltJuly 4 1917 July 4 1917 In use1917 1917 presentGarrison informationCurrentcommanderCAPT David DeesOccupantsCommander Navy Region Mid AtlanticCommander Navy Warfare Development CommandAir Operations conducts over 100 000 flight operations each year an average of 275 flights per day or one every six minutes Over 150 000 passengers and 264 000 tons of mail and cargo depart annually on Air Mobility Command AMC aircraft and other AMC chartered flights from the airfield s AMC Terminal 2 Contents 1 History 2 Incidents 3 Operational Units 3 1 Carrier Strike Groups CARSTRKGRU 3 2 Destroyer Squadrons DESRONS 3 3 Submarine Squadron SUBRON 3 4 Aircraft carriers 3 5 Cruisers 3 6 Amphibious assault 3 7 Guided missile destroyers 3 8 Submarines 3 9 Military sealift command 4 Air Squadrons 5 Tenant Shore Commands 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksHistory Edit Aircraft carrier USS Yorktown docked at then NOB Norfolk in October 1937 The area where the base is located was the site of the original 1907 Jamestown Exposition 3 In 1915 the Headquarters of the 5th Naval District was established In April 1917 shortly after the United States entered World War I a bill was passed for the purchase of the land and money was set aside in the amount of 1 6 million for the development of the base The Naval Operating Base NOB and other facilities were established By 1918 there were 34 000 enlisted men at the base 3 However by the war s end the base was reduced in personnel and put into a standby mode 4 Iowa class battleships USS New Jersey and USS Missouri at NS Norfolk in 1954 When World War II began in Europe in 1939 the base became more active again New facilities were built including new runways for aircraft part of Naval Air Station Norfolk It also had ramps built to be used by seaplanes to be operated by the Navy during the war 3 About 400 acres was acquired and by 1943 the air station had become a central airfield for operations Due to the expansion it contributed to ending the war because of the training it provided to naval air units 5 In March 1946 the Chief of Naval Operations ordered the Commandant of the 5th Naval District to place NOB Norfolk and NAS Norfolk as separate installations under the command of Commandant Naval Base whose title was soon changed to Commander Navy Region Mid Atlantic 6 Following World War II NOB Norfolk became the primary base of the Atlantic Fleet It was one of the largest naval bases in the world On 1 January 1953 the name of the naval base was officially changed to Naval Station Norfolk NS Norfolk after being known as the NOB 5 In 1968 the Naval Air Station was given a major role in John F Kennedy s vision of putting a man on the moon The air station became Recovery Control Center Atlantic which provided command control and communications for the ships and aircraft that participated in the recovery operations of Apollo 7 5 Due to the end of the Cold War a drawdown began in the 1990s and the Navy began reducing shore installations to help with operating costs Due to this the Navy merged the separate Naval Station Norfolk and Naval Air Station Norfolk into a single installation to be called Naval Station Norfolk which became official on 5 February 1999 5 Following the attack on USS Cole and 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks the base had some major upgrades to its security gates costing more than 12 5 million 5 On 26 January 2017 NS Norfolk celebrated its centennial at the Pennsylvania House a historical building built for the Jamestown Exposition 7 located on the base 8 Incidents EditOn Easter 3 April of 1988 members of the anti nuclear group Plowshares boarded the battleship USS Iowa with visitors for a ship s tour and left their group to do symbolic damage to the ship s empty Tomahawk missile launchers using hammers and their own blood 9 On March 24 2014 a shooting at NS Norfolk resulted in the death of a sailor and a civilian The shooting occurred around 11 20 p m EDT aboard USS Mahan Security forces shot and killed the civilian who had allegedly shot the sailor aboard the vessel 10 The base was closed for a short time after the shooting on USS Mahan 11 On 26 July 2022 a severe thunderstorm with winds of 60 miles per hour 97 km h and over caused nine helicopters assigned to Naval Station Norfolk to be damaged Damaged aircraft include the MH 60 Seahawk and MH 53E Sea Dragon according to the Navy 12 Operational Units EditNaval Station Norfolk is home port of four carrier strike groups and their assigned ships In addition the Naval Station plays host to several Military Sealift Command ships as well as the submarines of the Atlantic Fleet As of October 2022 the following operational units are headquartered or homeported at Naval Station Norfolk Carrier Strike Groups CARSTRKGRU Edit Carrier Strike Group Two Carrier Strike Group Eight Carrier Strike Group Ten Carrier Strike Group TwelveDestroyer Squadrons DESRONS Edit Destroyer Squadron 2 Destroyer Squadron 22 Destroyer Squadron 26 Destroyer Squadron 28Submarine Squadron SUBRON Edit Submarine Squadron 6Aircraft carriers Edit USS Dwight D Eisenhower CVN 69 USS George Washington CVN 73 USS John C Stennis CVN 74 USS Harry S Truman CVN 75 USS George H W Bush CVN 77 USS Gerald R Ford CVN 78 Cruisers Edit USS Leyte Gulf CG 55 USS San Jacinto CG 56 USS Philippine Sea CG 58 USS Normandy CG 60 USS Gettysburg CG 64 USS Vicksburg CG 69 Amphibious assault USS Wasp LHD 1 USS Kearsarge LHD 3 USS Bataan LHD 5 USS Iwo Jima LHD 7 USS San Antonio LPD 17 USS Mesa Verde LPD 19 USS New York LPD 21 USS Arlington LPD 24 USS Fort Lauderdale LPD 28 Guided missile destroyers USS Stout DDG 55 USS Mitscher DDG 57 USS Laboon DDG 58 USS Ramage DDG 61 USS Gonzalez DDG 66 USS Cole DDG 67 USS Mahan DDG 72 USS McFaul DDG 74 USS Oscar Austin DDG 79 USS Mason DDG 87 USS Nitze DDG 94 USS James E Williams DDG 95 USS Bainbridge DDG 96 USS Forrest Sherman DDG 98 USS Truxtun DDG 103 USS Gravely DDG 107 Submarines Edit USS Helena SSN 725 USS Newport News SSN 750 USS Pasadena SSN 752 USS Albany SSN 753 USS Boise SSN 764 USS New Hampshire SSN 778 USS New Mexico SSN 779 USS John Warner SSN 785 USS Washington SSN 787 Military sealift command Edit USNS Comfort T AH 20 USNS Lewis and Clark T AKE 1 USNS Sacagawea T AKE 2 USNS Leroy Grumman T AO 195 USNS Kanawha T AO 196 USNS Big Horn T AO 198 USNS Patuxent T AO 201 USNS Laramie T AO 203 USNS Supply T AOE 6 USNS Arctic T AOE 8 USNS Zeus T ARC 7 USNS Grasp T ARS 51 USNS Grapple T ARS 53 USNS Apache T ATF 172 Air Squadrons EditMain article Naval Station Norfolk Chambers Field Tenant CommandsTenant Shore Commands EditIn addition to the several operational units Naval Station Norfolk is also headquarters to a number of shore activities that provided administrative and specialty support to regional operational assets and in some cases the entire Navy As of June 2021 these included Navy Warfare Development Command Navy Region Mid Atlantic United States Second Fleet Carrier Strike Group Four Navy Expeditionary Combat Command Naval Reserve Force Navy Fleet Readiness Centers Naval Surface Force Atlantic Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Atlantic NCTAMS LANT Navy Exchange Command Naval Safety Center Naval Criminal Investigative Service Norfolk Field Office headquarters and NCIS Resident Agency NCISRA Norfolk a subordinate component of the Norfolk Field Office Commander Navy Installations Command N6 and N8See also EditCommodore Levy Chapel United States Navy submarine basesReferences Edit This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Navy History of Naval Station Norfolk Archived from the original on 2010 12 06 Retrieved 2009 05 04 NS Norfolk History cnic navy mil Archived from the original on 2015 11 17 Retrieved 2015 11 16 a b c Naval Station Norfolk History CNIC Archived from the original on 24 March 2017 Retrieved 23 March 2017 NS Norfolk Naval Base in Norfolk VA MilitaryBases com Military Bases Archived from the original on 2017 03 24 Retrieved 2017 03 24 a b c d e History of Naval Station Norfolk Naval Station Norfolk Base Guide amp Telephone Directory www nsnbg com Archived from the original on 2017 03 12 Retrieved 2017 03 26 Pike John Naval Station Norfolk www globalsecurity org Archived from the original on 2017 05 09 Retrieved 2017 03 26 Hansen Louis What s in a name Pennsylvania House Norfolk Virginian Pilot Archived from the original on 2017 03 24 Retrieved 2017 03 24 Naval Station Norfolk Centennial CNIC Archived from the original on 24 March 2017 Retrieved 23 March 2017 An Activist Nun Trying To Provoke People To Think The Philadelphia Inquirer Archived from the original on 2016 03 04 Retrieved 17 April 2015 Family Military Policeman Was Shooting Victim CBS Local Associated Press 25 March 2014 Archived from the original on 25 March 2014 Retrieved 25 March 2014 West Rachel 25 March 2014 Navy ID s shooter in USS Mahan death WAVY TV Archived from the original on 25 March 2014 Retrieved 25 March 2014 Nine Navy helicopters damaged in Norfolk storm Diana Stancy Correll NavyTimes 2022 07 28External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Naval Station Norfolk Official website Flagship military authorized newspaper of NAS Norfolk and Commander Navy Region Mid Atlantic NS Norfolk at GlobalSecurity org FAA Airport Diagram PDF effective December 29 2022 FAA Terminal Procedures for NGU effective December 29 2022Resources for this U S military airport FAA airport information for NGU AirNav airport information for KNGU ASN accident history for NGU NOAA NWS latest weather observations SkyVector aeronautical chart for KNGU Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Naval Station Norfolk amp oldid 1125992957, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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