Bases
Navy Region Southwest
Naval Air Facility El Centro's combination of climate, vast unobstructed desert terrain, limited non-military air traffic and convenient access to gunnery and bomb ranges make it an ideal environment for training. NAF El Centro is the winter training home of the Blue Angels and routinely provides service to Navy Fleet air squadrons performing tactical air training, as well as other US and international units. Each month, seven to twelve squadrons totaling 150 to 1,600 military transient personnel train at NAF El Centro. These military personnel come from Navy, Marine Corps, Army, and Air Force installations throughout the United States.
Naval Air Station Fallon is home to the Fighting Saints of VFC-13, the Desert Outlaws of Strike Fighter Weapons Det., and the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center. NAS Fallon serves as the Navy's premier tactical air warfare training center. Known throughout the Navy, it is the only facility in existence where an entire carrier air wing can conduct comprehensive training while integrating every element of the wing into realistic battle scenarios. Originally designed as a primary base to launch missions against a Japanese strike against the West Coast, the air station has evolved into a versatile, comprehensive training facility known to aviators around the world as the pinnacle of air warfare training.
Naval Air Station Lemoore, the Navy's newest, largest, and only west coast Master Jet Base, is home for all Navy F/A-18 Strike Fighter Squadrons on the west coast, and is committed to supporting the Strike Fighter Wing, U.S. Pacific Fleet, in its mission to train, man and equip our Strike Fighter Squadrons. Nearly every organization on base either directly or indirectly supports the ability of the base's home-ported Strike Fighter Squadrons to deploy aboard U.S. Pacific Fleet's aircraft carriers which protect America's interests over more than half the Earth's surface, from the west coast of the United States to the east coast of Africa.
Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake is the Navy's largest single landholding, representing 34 percent of the Navy's total land worldwide. The airspace is composed of 19,600 square miles of controlled airspace, totaling 12 percent of California's total airspace and provides an unprecedented venue for integrated testing and training of today's war fighter. More than 95 percent of its 1.1-million acres has remained undisturbed during the course of the base mission.
Naval Base San Diego, the largest of the San Diego Naval installations, provides services to its Sailors and other personnel as well as to the pier-side needs of the different countries visiting ships. NBSD is home to more than 200 separate tenant commands and other Navy support facilities, each having specific and specialized fleet support missions. NBSD provides rooms to house more than 4,000 men and women in modern apartment-like barracks, including Pacific Beacon, a new state-of-the-art residence. The base today has a plant value of around $2.1 billion and is one of the world's most modern and largest naval bases.
Naval Base Coronado is a consolidated Navy installation encompassing eight military facilities. In 1997, Naval Base Coronado was created, incorporating seven separate Naval installations under one Commanding Officer. Those facilities include: Naval Air Station North Island; Naval Amphibious Base Coronado; Naval Outlying Landing Field Imperial Beach; Naval Auxiliary Landing Field San Clemente Island; Silver Strand Training Complex, formerly known as the Naval Radio Receiving Facility; Mountain Warfare Training Facility La Posta; and the Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape Facility, Warner Springs. Camp Morena was added in 2008. These eight facilities encompass more than 57,000 acres and make NBC the largest command in the southwest region of the U.S. NBC accounts for over 30% of the Region's total workforce and has the largest workforce in San Diego County.
Naval Base Point Loma supports 70 U.S. Pacific Fleet afloat and shore based tenant commands headquartered on the base. NBPL primary focus is to provide safe, efficient, and timely services to both home-ported and visiting submarines, surface ships, and Mine Counter Measure vessels. Major tenant commands include Commander Third Fleet, Naval Mine and Anti Submarine Warfare Command, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), SPAWAR Systems Center, Fleet Intelligence Training Center Pacific, Tactical Training Group Pacific, Submarine Squadron Eleven, Commander Sealift Logistics Command Pacific, Submarine Training Center Pacific Detachment, seven submarines, a floating dry dock, and the Navy's Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Department.
Naval Base Ventura County is a key contributor to the readiness of the Department of Defense total force, providing development and testing of new systems, joint warfare experimentation, training and readiness, and Homeland Defense. Activities provide significant airfield, seaport, railhead, and base facilities support for multiple tenant operations by all branches of the military, including the Reserve and Air National Guard. It stands as a full-service organization and is a main naval installation on the West Coast accommodating a wide variety of personnel, missions, battalions, construction forces and more.
Naval Support Activity Monterey is home to over 15 tenant commands, NSA Monterey provides primary support to the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Navy Research Lab (NRL), and the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC). NPS is the largest producer of advanced graduate degrees for the Department of Defense and proudly graduates thousands every year from all services and from over 50 countries. NRL provides all scientific and weather modeling as well as atmospheric and aerosol studies. FNMOC provides the highest quality, most relevant and timely worldwide Meteorology and Oceanography support to U.S. and coalition forces from FNMOC's 24x7 Operations Center in Monterey. NSA Monterey supports over 160 buildings which are located on more than 626 acres.
Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach is the Navy's primary West Coast ordnance storage, loading and maintenance installation. Under the station's primary tenant, the Navy Munitions Command, cruisers, destroyers, frigates, and medium-sized amphibious assault ships are loaded with missiles, torpedoes, countermeasures devices and conventional ammunition at the facility's 1,000 foot-long wharf. An average of 50 vessels are loaded or unloaded each year. The weapons station services a majority of the U. S. Pacific Fleet.
