Naval Stations & Shore Commands - NAVSTA CENTERS SCHOOLS FACS, If it don't float...

[Salvage Sailor]

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Established 1800 (this is PNS in Maine, not PNY in Norfolk, VA)

Sails to Atoms - Smoothbores to Missiles

Dedicated to Submarine Progress

 

[Bearmon]

Naval Nuclear Power School Minsy

[Salvage Sailor]

Fleet Weather Facility Miami

 

Fleet Weather Facility Miami

 

[Salvage Sailor]

AO Aviation Ordnanceman School, Naval Air Technical Training Center Jacksonville, Florida

Cut edge 1950's - 60's

 

[Bearmon]

US Naval Facility Lewes Delaware, created to house the SOSUS from Cape May

as The Cape May NJ Facility was being eroded by the ocean. Circa 1961

[Salvage Sailor]

Nice and obscure patch shipmate

[firefighter]

Naval Research Lab, Chesapeake Bay

Came with the EMT patch

[Salvage Sailor]

On 12/13/2015 at 8:05 AM, Salvage Sailor said:

Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan

 

SRF - U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility Yokosuka, Japan, the Seventh Fleet's "I had a boo-boo" shipyard

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

US Navy Calibration Lab Any help with the Dotson?

usn cal lab (2).jpg

 

Not a facility, unit, station, city.....That's quite mysterious Bearmon, unless it's a name of a sailor or technician.

[Salvage Sailor]

US Naval Station Argentia Newfoundland Decal and Gemsco patch

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

On 8/8/2017 at 9:36 AM, Salvage Sailor said:

Fleet Weather Facility Miami

 

 

Fleet Weather Central Kodiak Alaska

 

 

[hink441]

Security Forces Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay.

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Naval Station Rota, Spain - Disaster Preparedness

Chemical, Biological, Radiological Defense US Navy

 

[Salvage Sailor]

On 12/13/2015 at 8:15 AM, Salvage Sailor said:

NAVSTA Key West, Florida

 

The version Bearmon posted and an earlier one

 

Naval Base Key West - Key West Force

 

This is the old WWII/Korean War era Naval Base as opposed to the Naval (Submarine) Station which is on the southwest side of the island of Key West. The Naval Base has overall command of all facilities on Key West including the Base, Station, NAS, etc (see following document)

 

 

 

Naval Base Key West vs. Naval Station Key West (page 3) http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00005067/00001

 

Naval Base Key West vs. Naval Station Key West

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

United States Naval War College - Newport, RI, Three generations of their patch

 

 

The Naval War College (NWC or NAVWARCOL established in 1884) is the staff college and "Home of Thought" for the United States Navy at Naval Station Newport in Newport, Rhode Island. The NWC educates and develops leaders, supports defining the future Navy and associated roles and missions, supports combat readiness, and strengthens global maritime partnerships.

 

 

The Naval War College is one of the senior service colleges including the Army War College and the Air War College. Additionally, the U.S. Department of Defense operates the National War College. The original Newport Asylum building can be seen on the far right, now housing the Naval War College Museum. The larger building on the left is Luce Hall.

 

 

 

United States Naval War College - Newport, RI, Gemsco 1960's

 

 

 

United States Naval War College - Newport, RI, US made by unknown maker, circa 1970's

 

 

 

United States Naval War College - Newport, RI, US made circa 1990's glueback

 

[Salvage Sailor]

US NAVAL BASE PHILADELPHIA 1776-1976 BICENTENNIAL

Birthplace of Freedom, Made by Swiss-Tex, PA, USA

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Naval Intelligence Processing System Training Facility (NIPSTRAFAC)

Intel Geek school established in 1975 at Key West Florida for the then new IS rating (Intelligence Specialist)

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Naval Station Brig Long Beach, CA - Fair But Firm

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Fleet Anti-Air Warfare Training Center, Dam Neck, VA - Gemsco 1950's

 

Fleet Anti-Air Warfare Training Center, Dam Neck, VA - Gemsco 1950's

[Salvage Sailor]

Pre-1985 Bullion Fire Control Technician School, Guns and Missiles. Great Lakes (North Chicago)

 

Fire Control Technician School, Great Lakes Illinois, Gemsco 1960's

[Salvage Sailor]

For the Navy patch collectors, this one is the rare fish in the sea.....

 

 

N.A.I.T.F. POINT PINOS - (June 1954 to November 1961) Naval Air Intercept Training Facility, Point Pinos, California was established at the extreme tip of pine-covered Monterey Peninsula, overlooking the Pacific at NAF Monterey, also the grounds of the US Naval Post Graduate School.

 

"A particularly well named outfit is the Naval Air Intercept Training Facility, Point Pinos, Calif. Pinos is Spanish for pines. That’s appropriate, too, for the facility’s radar station is at the extreme tip of pine-covered Monterey Peninsula, overlooking the Pacific. As for the functional part of the name, that’s just what the facility does. Its main role is to train pilots and air controllers in the latest techniques of radar-controlled intercepts. (An intercept in this case means vectoring a fighter plane to a target plane.) In another role the facility assists carriers operating off the northern California coast by tracking their aircraft and relaying the plane’s flight plans to interested shoreside officials." All Hands magazine, March 1961

[Salvage Sailor]

NAMRA NAPLES - Naval Air Mediterranean Repair Activity

Commander Francis C. “Luke” Lukenbill became the first Commanding Officer of the newly established U. S. Naval Air Mediterranean Repair Activity (NAMRA) on 28 September 2001. The new stand-alone Repair Activity’s mission is to provide emergent, high quality, Depot-level structural repair to U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aircraft in the European and NAVCENT theaters with the ultimate degree of customer service. The command, located at the Naval Support Activity Capodichino, Naples, Italy, was previously a detachment of the U. S. Naval Air Pacific Repair Activity (NAPRA) Atsugi, Japan and now begins its maiden venture as its own command. NAMRA continues half century tradition of outstanding service to the Fleet in theater. As a Naval Air Systems Command entity, NAMRA reports directly to RDML Stephen C. Heilman, AIR 6.0, Deputy Director for Aviation Depots.

NAMRA originated nearly 50 years ago as a department of the Commander, Fleet Air Mediterranean (COMFAIRMED). At that time, COMFAIRMED identified the need for a Depot-level Maintenance presence in theater to maintain Navy and Marine Corps aviation in Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and North Africa. Originally designated as the Fleet Air Mediterranean Repair Activity (FAMRA), it was responsible for in-theater Depot-level In-Service Repair (ISR), Standard Depot Level Maintenance (SDLM), and Aircraft Service Period Adjustment (ASPA) inspections.

[Salvage Sailor]

A different NAVSTA Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico

 

.....and yet another style of US NAVAL STATION ROOSEVELT ROADS, Puerto Rico - 5" high Shield type

[Salvage Sailor]

Naval Air Technical Training Unit (NATTU) Lakehurst, New Jersey, established in 1951

 

 

NAEC Lakehurst NJ - In 1973 The Naval Air Engineering Center (NAEC) was relocated to NAS Lakehurst from Philadelphia. Then in 1977 NAS Lakehurst and NATF (Naval Air Test Facility) were disestablished and merged into NAEC.

 

 

[Bearmon]

An earlier topic with Several Lakehurst themed patches

 

http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/274809-lakehurst-nj/?hl=lakehurst