The base has been home to many ordnance testing programs, and the test range extends offshore to the Navy-owned San Nicolas Island in the Channel Islands. Word of the discovery was sent to Admiral Ben Moreell, Chief of the Burea… Port Hueneme (pronounced "Why-nee-mee"), supports the training and mobilization requirements for more than 2,600 active-duty personnel. Email this Navy Lodge. The base was officially established and began operating May 18, 1942 as an Advance Base Depot (ABD). Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC) is a United States Navy base in Port Hueneme, California. NBVC supports more than 100 tenant commands with a base populatio… Adjacent to Oxnard, the base was formed in 2000 through the merger of Naval Air Station Point Mugu and Naval Construction Battalion Center Port Hueneme. Tel: (805) 982-5037. The Seabee Archive contains various operational records, battalion histories, manuscripts, oral histories, biographies, and personal papers pertaining to the Seabees. Some classified materials in the warehouses had been stored improperly also. [23] The museum is the principal repository for the Seabees’ operational history. [1], During the Korean War, almost all Navy construction equipment and supplies for the war were routed through CBC Port Hueneme. The range allows the military to test and track weapons systems in restricted air- and sea-space without encroaching on civilian air traffic or shipping lanes. "1942: The start of the Second World War sent naval survey teams up and down the Pacific coast looking for new locations for naval facilities. Word of the discovery was sent to Admiral Ben Moreell, Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, who was busily putting together the new construction battalions. The airfield was used during the state funeral in 2004, as the place where the former President's body was flown to Washington, D.C. to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda. [citation needed], Naval Base Ventura County was established on October 11, 2000, during a ceremony held at Point Mugu. Address: 1183 VENTURA ROAD PORT HUENEME, CA 93041 Email address: mugu_nbvc_pass_id@navy.mil. The base contributes directly or indirectly to another 8200 jobs throughout the county. At San Nicolas Island (SNI), NBVC operates Naval Outlying Landing Field San Nicolas Island, which has a 10,002-foot (3,049 m) concrete and asphalt runway capable of accommodating aircraft the size of a C-5 Galaxy. Other facilities on the island include radar tracking instrumentation, electro optical devices, telemetry, communications equipment, missile and target launch areas, as well as personnel support. The team came to Port Hueneme, California and recognized it as an ideal port, because it was the only Pacific deep water port between Los Angeles and San Francisco. At Point Mugu, NBVC operates two runways and a 36,000-square-mile (93,000 km2) sea test range,[1] anchored by San Nicolas Island. SNI serves as a launch platform for short and medium missile testing and as an observation facility for missile testing. [3], Until the late 1990s, the base hosted Antarctic Development Squadron SIX (VXE-6), the squadron of LC-130s equipped to land on ice in Antarctica, to supply the science stations there. [1] The port is the west coast homeport of the U.S. Navy Seabees and supports the training and mobilization requirements for more than 2,600 active-duty personnel. [3], This Week in Seabee History, Seabee online Magazine, February 11 - February 17, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion § West Coast (Port Hueneme, California), Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek#Major shore commands, Naval Construction Battalion Center (Gulfport, Mississippi), Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval_Construction_Battalion_Center_Port_Hueneme&oldid=956710491, Installations of the United States Navy in California, Buildings and structures in Ventura County, California, Military facilities in Greater Los Angeles, Military installations established in 1945, Ventura County, California articles missing geocoordinate data, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, 1st Naval Construction Regiment (reserve), Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 18 (reserve), Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 22 (reserve), Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 25 (reserve), This page was last edited on 14 May 2020, at 21:25.