Jump to content

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


sigsaye
 Share

Recommended Posts

Salvage Sailor
On 2/19/2014 at 12:47 PM, Salvage Sailor said:

While you're pondering....

 

Andros Ranges AUTEC

Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center

Andros Range Autec.jpg

 

Another AUTEC patch - MARINE DEPARTMENT, ANDROS ISLAND

TOTO RANGE "Tongue Of The Ocean" - Tough, Observant, Tenacious, Orderly

 

1424568672_AndrosRange002.jpg.77543ab04ab960d127b578472d306b55.jpg

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...
  • 3 months later...
Salvage Sailor
On 10/21/2017 at 8:03 AM, Salvage Sailor said:

 

Fleet Weather Central Kodiak Alaska

Fleet Weather Central Kodiak Alaska 001.jpg

 

Fleet Weather Central Kodiak Alaska 002.jpg

 

 

1960's Combined services patch (pre-1971) when Kodiak was operated by the USN but shared with the USCG

1938325618_CGASKodiakAlaska001.jpg.371a80aac539f4bc428ea2657118dd1c.jpg

US Naval Air Station, US Naval Station, Coast Guard Air Station

Kodiak, Alaska

2020238823_CGASKodiakAlaska002.jpg.b98fedcbd636c96e469c2889e5cb9c72.jpg

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 months later...
On 5/24/2019 at 1:45 PM, Salvage Sailor said:

Nice Patch

 

It's early 1960's from the USAUWS in Key West, Florida. The school was primarily for ASW rates (sonarmen, torpedomen, etc)

 

From a torpedoman's 1960 navy memoirs: "From boot camp it was on to the United States Naval Advanced Undersea Weapons School in Key West, Florida. This was to be only the first of several trips to this school learning the latest in high tech weaponry."

 

USAUWS Key West 01.jpg

 

More from his pages:

 

After boot camp it was off to Key West, Florida for what would turn out to be the first of many classes in advanced undersea weapons. Unlike my previous public school education, I managed to graduate first in every class I took in the Navy.

 
Advanced Undersea Weapons School
 
Here they taught everything from basic electronics to high tech rocket launched homing torpedoes to atomic warheads. I signed up for everything I could get. By the time I was 18 I knew how to prepare weapons that could sink almost anything afloat. The part of the Navy base that housed the school also housed an anti-submarine helicopter squadron. Our barracks was next to the airfield.

 

More info on USAUWS in Key West, Florida

 

Key West.jpg

Came across a period photograph of what looks like a graduating class of sailors at this facility.

AUWS (3).jpg

AUWS (2).jpg

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 5 months later...
  • 4 months later...
Salvage Sailor

FLEET TRAINING GROUP PEARL HARBOR (FTGPH)

Ford Island, Pearl Harbor Naval Station

FleetTrainingGroupPearlHarbor001.JPG.588a41079ecf772adf18ba2037e5b356.JPG

'Been there done that many times'

FleetTrainingGroupPearlHarbor002.JPG.a1fc37c646723f9b208d5b726946cea4.JPG

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...
Salvage Sailor
On 5/11/2019 at 2:15 PM, USARV72 said:

Note, Hatteras, N.C. was called, “Graveyard of the Atlantic”. No patch of Northwest , Va.?????

 

Northwest, VA

NAVALRECEIVERFACILITYNORTHWEST001.JPG.e7792bf81ed4071f5576c32d16a6f13b.JPG

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Nice, grew up and lived about 5 miles from there. We wondered what they thought when we fired Mgs and cannons. We could hear the Marine detachment shooting.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 3 weeks later...
  • 3 weeks later...
Salvage Sailor

Here's a difficult one to find....it was all 'hush, hush' as the Brits say

 

3951891fdd1456c274168d2397e7fda0.jpg.14168c538f6bc6b90574a3b347fb105e.jpg

 

NAVFAC BRAWDY WALES

"Oceanographic Research Station"

aka Cold War SOSUS Project Caesar Terminal Building

NAVFACBRAWDYWALES001.JPG.9fdc00336b369319462577a7489a0e20.JPG

 

The US Navy base, next to RAF Brawdy in Pembrokeshire, was officially an "Oceanographic Research Station", though it has long been know that it was a processing centre for a network of underwater microphones, some of which were submerged off the British coast, listening to submarine movements in the Atlantic.  S.O.S.U.S., or Project Caesar was began in 1954 and comprised of several bases designed to track Soviet submarine movements via their propeller sounds. Brawdy was its biggest station, opening in 1973 and closing in 1995, when its function was transferred to another UK site, either St. Mawgan (Cornwall) or a Corsham (Wiltshire) site.

 

raf-brawdy-898714531(1).webp.5059eb1019f9a2ec9d772770a9a8d9b5.webp

This was a major intelligence facility with 22 US Navy Officers, 278 other ranks and 7 civilians working there in 1980. Its budget was $20m between 1978-1984, 80% of which was spent on electronics or computer equipment. $3.6m was spent on doubling the size of the operations block in 1981.

 

Little is known for certain about the base, though details of its role may have partially been revealed in 1993 when a whale researcher obtained recordings of whale song from the base, he was told that once, US Navy technicians were able to track an individual whale for 40 days by which time it had reached Bermuda - rather impressive technology.

 

NAVFAC BRAWDY WALES 002.JPG

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Salvage Sailor

...and my larger NAVFAC BRAWDY WALES  patch

 

NAVFACBRAWDYWALES000.JPG.9afbe1d4871fc8a5297a59498739d2c7.JPG

 

NAVFACBRAWDYWALES003.JPG.f92c21449075dfb9e948a7592ce38ddc.JPG

 

NAVFACBRAWDYWALES004.JPG.52e1dd19ea27b52c819133876283789d.JPG

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share

×
×
  • Create New...