Shared Expeditionary Base-Little Creek (JEB-LC) , formerly known as Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek and commonly called just Little Creek , is a base a major operation for the Amphibious Forces in the United States Naval Fleet. This base consists of four locations in three states, including nearly 12,000 hectares (4,900 hectares) of real estate. The location of Little Creek in Virginia Beach, Virginia totals 2,120 acres (860 acres) of acres of land. Outside facilities include 350 acres (140 ha) located north of the Hampton Roads Training Support Center in Virginia Beach, and 21 acres (8.5 ha) known as Radio Island in Morehead City, North Carolina, are used for ships and personnel of the US Coast Guard Force as it also serves as an amphibious embarkation/debarkation area for the US Marine Corps unit at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
The mission of the Naval Amphibious Base is to provide the necessary support services for more than 15,000 personnel from 27 deported vessels and 78 residents and/or activities supported. The basic combination of operational, support, and training facilities is directed primarily to amphibious operations, creating a unique base between US bases and the Allied Navy. The Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek is the largest base of its kind in the world.
On October 1, 2009, Little Creek and Fort Story belonging to the Army completed a two-year joint into a common base, officially named the Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story.
Video Joint Expeditionary Base-Little Creek
History
World War II
On July 16, 1942, a US Navy truck drove from Shore Drive, a beautiful highway along the southern shore of the Chesapeake Bay between the resort areas of Ocean View in Norfolk City and the small town of Virginia Beach in Princess Anne County. This resort town is located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, a few miles south of Cape Henry, at the entrance to the bay.
Near a niche called "Little Creek", the truck stopped in a peanut field that was inundated on the Whitehurst farm. For days afterward, trucks loaded with logs and equipment were rolled into the area almost in succession. The reason for this mass attack in the 12 mile (19 km) nuts field northeast of Norfolk is that, at the beginning of World War II, naval planners saw a need to land a large number of American troops on foreign beaches in the face of enemy fire. That such an operation would be difficult is also proven. New methods and techniques in landing troops should be developed. Training will be needed before people who are clever enough in the art of elaborate amphibian attacks, which will allow US troops to go to the enemy's heart.
This base was originally founded on Princess Anne County farmland. During the early phase of World War II the base was really a combination of farmland and marshes. Four bases are built in this area: Camp Bradford, Camp Shelton, US Naval Border Base, and Amphibious Training Base. The Bradford and Shelton camps are named for former landowners.
- Initially Camp Bradford was the training base for the Navy Seabees, but in 1943 was transformed into a training center for LST (Landing Ship Tank) crews.
- Camp Shelton is an armed guard training center for bluejacket that serves on board merchant ships as a gun crew. At the end of World War II it served as a center of separation.
- Frontier Base is a forwarding center for Amphibian Force personnel and equipment dedicated to the European Theater.
- The Amphibious Training Base (also known as "Little Creek") is the center for all types of amphibious training and crew training for landing ship medium, LCI (landing lander infantry), and LCU (landing) craft utility); LCM (mechanical landing vessel), and LCVP (crew member crew, personnel) crew are also trained at Little Creek.
At the new base, training techniques should be developed from scratch. Facilities for maintenance of equipment and living facilities for personnel are primitive. Newcomers found several buildings and practically no roads or utilities. Just peanuts. After various improvisations came the temporary buildings which then gave the site some resemblance to the naval base.
In a few months, trained people who will land combat troops from Africa to Normandy are ready to sail. During World War II, more than 200,000 Navy personnel and 160,000 Army and Marine personnel were trained at Little Creek.
Post World War II
The four bases were partially inactivated at the end of World War II hostilities. Shortly thereafter, however, the base at Little Creek, due to their central location on the Atlantic coast, excellent and varied coastal conditions, close to Norfolk Naval facilities, amphitheater facilities for amphibious ships via LST size, and other advantages, were consolidated into this installation and renamed the Navy Amphibious Base, Little Creek with the commissioning date of August 10, 1945. It was designated as a permanent base in 1946.
In 1963, the developing area was consolidated with its small neighbor in the resort town, forming the "new" Virginia Beach City, one of Virginia's largest cities.
Growing for many years to meet the needs of the Amphibian Force, the base has evolved into one of the most modern in the Navy. Thousands of men and women from all branches of the Armed Forces, as well as military students from foreign countries, now pass through the gates of the Amphibious Naval Base each year for training in amphibious warfare.
The amphibious war adds an important measure of levers to successfully maritime campaigns. The national maritime strategy seeks to prevent warfare if possible, but if prevention fails, to destroy the enemy's maritime forces, protect the marine communication lines, support land campaigns, and secure lucrative influences for cessation of hostilities. This is a truly global strategy, requiring the ability to dominate the world's oceans and the flexibility of forced labor that can only be provided by the navy. The strength of the navy is seen as a central element of American military strategy. The Marine/Marine Corps team provides an effective amphibious strike arm to support national military strategy. Today nearly 13,000 Sailors, Marines, and civil servants are assigned to various stations or attend a school at the Navy Amphibious Base, Little Creek to support the Marine/Marine Corps team.
Maps Joint Expeditionary Base-Little Creek
Tenant Command
The floating command
(As of June 2015)
- USS Whidbey Island (LSD-41)
- USS Fort McHenry (LSD-43)
- USSÃ, Gunston Hall (LSD-44)
- USS Tortuga (LSD-46)
- USS Carter Hall (LSD-50)
- USS Oak Hills (LSD-51)
- USS Hurricane Ã, (PC-3)
- USS Zephyr (PC-8)
- USCGCÃ, Reliable (WMEC-626)
- USCGCÃ, Strong (WMEC-627)
The main shore command
- Two Expressive Arms Disposal Groups
- Explosive Ordnance Disposal Expeditionary Support Unit Two
- Revolutionary Cellular Arrest of Two Units
- Cellular Powder Disposal Six Units Cellular
- The Disposal of Twelve Weapons of Cell Phone Weapons
- Naval Beach Group Two
- Assault Craft Unit Two
- Assault Craft Unit Four
- Beachmaster Unit Two
- Amphibious Construction Battalion Two
- Navy Construction Force
- First Navy Construction Division
- Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit 202
- Naval Special Warfare Group 2
- SEAL Team Two
- SEAL Team Four
- SEAL Team Eight
- SEAL Team Ten
- Naval Special Warfare Group 11
- SEAL Team 18
- The Naval Special Warfare Group 4
- The Special Boat Team 20
- Navy Special Warfare Development Group
- Tactical Air Control Group Two
- Tactical Air Control Squadron Twenty One
- Twenty Tactical Air Control Squadron
- Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit Two
- Underwater Construction Team One
Other renters
- Inspection and Survey Boards
- US. Armed Forces School of Music, which trains professional musicians for service with US military bands Army, Navy, and Marine Corps
- Coast Guard MSRT 91102
- Little Creek Coast Guard Station
Ferry Road
The fixed base cleaved by the ground finger is not part of the base. The land includes Ferry Road, rail lines, and a pier serving former cross-bay barging traffic from the deadly Bay Coast Train, formerly the Eastern Shore Railroad, to Cape Charles, Virginia.
Ferry Road, crossed by Guam Road-Amphibious Drive Bridge, after serving Little Creek-Cape Charles Ferry now carrying passengers and motor vehicles across the mouth of the bay to Cape Charles and Kiptopeke until replacement in 1964 by Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.
View: Ferry Road divides two NABLCs
References
This article incorporates material from the Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek's History, a United States Government web page whose contents are in the public domain.
External links
- Little Creek NAB website
- NEBE JEB Little Creek - Fort Story Lodge
- globalsecurity.org: Little Creek
- NAB Little Creek Installation Overview from NavyUSA.org
- DoD Lodging Worldwide
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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