Born and raised in Norfolk and still here . I Love Norfolk and Virginia . When things were not going too well for Lord Dunmore , the last Royal Governor of Virginia . he fled the Capitol at Williamsburg , he and several British warships ended up anchored along the Norfolk water front . He sent some British Regulars marching south , where they had a skirmish with a few militia men from Virginia and North Carolina . This became known as the battle of Great Bridge . When the citizens of Norfolk refused to supply provisions for the warships , Dunmore ordered that the town be bombarded on Jan. 1 , 1776 . Soldiers were sent ashore during the bombardment and they set fire to many buildings , burning most of the town . About a month later , patriots burned what remained so the British could not use it as a base of operation . There is still a British cannonball embedded in the brick wall of St. Paul's Church , the only colonial era building still standing in the city . ua-cam.com/video/s1oHFEJw4u8/v-deo.html Have always wanted to visit Cornwall since watching the TV mini series ''Poldark'' in the seventies . Never was able , too old now . One of Virginia's most beloved daughters is buried at Gravesend , England . Do you know who? ua-cam.com/video/TlBhtyurXjk/v-deo.html
#4 San Diego and #9 Coronado are just across San Diego Bay from each other so you could also add those together. Coronado is also home to SEAL BUDs training. The F-35 crashed at Fort Worth, and was on the ground when the pilot ejected so he didn't have much time under the canopy of the parachute.
Beautiful place, Coronado beaches are one of the top rated beaches in the world, and the SEAL BUD training base was the one with the building shaped liked a swastika
One of my buddies just retired & was a fighter pilot, got to pilot F-35s, one of his close friends died when he crashed a jet in training, wasn’t an F-35 tho
I was stationed at the Norfolk and Sandiego bases. Coronado is in San Diego across the bay from the other base. Most of the bases have restaurants, movie theaters, Grocery stores and department stores, fire departments and some have schools for the children.
I spent almost 20 years in and around Norfolk. Went to undergrad and graduate school there at Old Dominion University. There are 3 types of people you will meet when you step outside of your house, even if you are only going across the street. 1. A current military enlistee. 2. A veteran, 3. A shipyard worker.
Grew up in the Virginia Beach/Norfolk area from 79-96. My old man was born out there, joined the Navy and got stationed there on the USS America and got out of the Navy and kept working for the Navy there on the civilian side as a machinist. And yeah between Norfolk, Little Creek, Dam Neck, Oceana, Fort Eustis, Langley, the different Coast Guard stations, and to a lesser degree Ft. Lee you're right it's almost impossible to go anywhere in the Hampton Roads area without running into someone that is either military, prior military, or civil service of some sort, or a combination of them. Edit: And while I fit into the veteran and civil service camp my active and reserve duty time was spent either over seas, Texas, or Illinois and after getting out working at Great Lakes NTC under the civil service umbrella doing the same kind of work my dad did there as well. They moved him up there after the BRAC closures in the mid 90's.
That “big river” is the San Diego Bay. Coronado is on the west side of the bay and San Diego is on the east side. The bridge in the background is the San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge, which is the only way to get from one side to the other without going several miles south around the bay. I spent the first 56 years of my life in San Diego County. Beautiful city.
I was a Navy brat and lived on Bangor Submarine Base (Naval Base Kitsap) as a little girl. My dad was a Naval Officer and worked at Bangor and the Puget Sound Naval shipyard over the years. ❤️🇺🇸
My Dad was an aviation supply officer and stationed at Patuxent River, Maryland in the ‘70’s. They tested F-14s there and a little known fact, Mary Pickford, silent screen star, owned her house and land that eventually became part of the base there. Her house was still standing when Dad was stationed there and used for officer housing.
The town of Coronado is in San Diego County. It is a spit of land bounded in the south by Mexico and extends northward toward forms San Diego Bay on its eastern border. The Bases and the town of Coronado are mostly on the northern end of the spit. It is connected to the rest of San Diego County by the Coronado Bridge.
That Joint Base Kitsap includes Bremerton Naval Base near Seattle, Washington. Mayport Naval Base is very close to Jacksonville, Florida. Norfolk is just inside the opening into the Chesapeake Bay....and Naval Patuxent River (aka Pax River) is half-way up into the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Patuxent River and about an hour or so from D.C.
As an army brat and served myself. Alot of Military bases, are basically small towns. You can get almost anything you want and never leave base. Even as a kid, i went to see the doctors, dentists and went to school all on the Military base. Both in Germany and in the USA. You have the PX/BX thats basically a walmart, with fast food, tailors, movie rentals( back in the 80s and 90s) movie theaters, basically any type of shop you would need. You had the commissary for groceries alot of bases even have their own banks on base.
I was stationed at Norfolk. Gate traffic and parking was a nightmare, there’s so many people entering at the same time. I lived just a mile away and if work started at 6:30am I’d try to leave by 5:00am to get on base, find parking, walk to the ship and get to my work station. ( vets know “if you’re on time, you’re late”) so hopefully by 6:15am I was busting thru the door.
I had to be there at 4 to cook you fuckers breakfast lol. That walk down the pier in the winter was torture. But then I got promoted to Captain's Cook and kept banker's hours if we weren't underway.
Military Bases in San Diego County: 1)USMC Miramar (Marine air), USMC Camp Pendleton (Marine training, including hovercraft hangars), 3)USMC Recruit Depot (Marine West Coast boot camp), 4)Naval Base Coronado (Navy air and SEAL training), 5)Naval Base Pt. Loma (Submarines), 6)Naval Base San Diego (Navy fleet), 7)USCG San Diego (Homeland Security Coast Guard). There are approximately 110,700 Active Duty personnel and 118,300 family members, which represents 7.6 percent of San Diego County’s total population.
Naval Base Coronado (NBC) is a consolidated Navy installation encompassing eight military facilities stretching from San Clemente Island, located seventy miles west of San Diego, California in Los Angeles County, California, to the Mountain Warfare Training Camp Michael Monsoor and Camp Morena, located sixty miles east of San Diego.
My dad trained to be a Marine at Camp Pendleton near Oceanside, California, which is not far from San Diego. This makes sense as the Marines are technically a part of the Navy. San Diego is a very beautiful city. I love it!
I wonder if you add Coronado Navy, San Diego Navy, Miramar Marines, and Pendleton Marines together what # it would be on this list. You can barely call them separate bases.
I was stationed at Norfolk Naval Station for 4 years and all I have to say is "Never again." The traffic getting on base every morning is my sleep paralysis demon. I lived one highway exit off base, but if I didn't leave the house by 4 AM, I would be stuck in traffic till 6 AM because you'd have 6 guards checking each ID for every car coming on base. I'd leave at 4, find a parking spot, then set my alarm and sleep in my car till 6:30 as we had to be at work on the ship at 7:00. Left in 2017 and all I have to say is good riddance lol.
The thing about the San Diego base is that Camp Pendleton is nearby. It's the West Coast training base for the Marines. So that whole area is nothing but bases and military personnel.
I worked in construction and we did a lot of work at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst here in New Jersey. It really is just a normal town. After you pass through the security gate, it looks just like anywhere else. There are grocery stores, fast food restaurants, neighborhoods with normal houses, etc. Of course, there are military vehicles and aircraft, but you'll see the same things living in the surrounding towns.
My carrier, USS Kittyhawk (CV63) was based out of NAS North Island in Coronado, CA. I remember being just out of high school when I joined the navy and thinking that the air station was a city unto itself. It had everything you could possibly need.
As a Hawaiian who lives on Oahu and visited the USS Arizona and museum many times growing up, Seeing Pearl Harbor mentioned reminds me how special Hawaii really is.
You can watch live streaming of the San Diego Naval base and see Subs and Aircraft Carriers coming and going. Very interesting to watch all the support ships involved.
I served in the Army and currently work as a DOD civilian at NAS Jax. You can get a sense that a lot of people work there during the two rush hours each work day as traffic backs up going there in the morning and leaving in the afternoon/evening.
Dave, Jocko was based at Coronado [West Coast SEAL teams are there]. San Diego is surrounded by bases; there's even the MCRD San Diego, the West Coast boot camp for Marine recruits. Go interior a short distance & you reach MCAS Miramar, go north a short distance & you arrive at Camp Pendleton. If one added all the military personnel in SoCal it'd dwarf everywhere else...
My brother was stationed at Norfolk VA for 6 years. He was a Nuclear Engineer. He spent the late 70's stationed in the water by Iran. My brother was originally born in Germany when my Dad was stationed over there in the Army. So, when he chose to go into the Navy. He also chose to be a United States Citizen.
Does someone move or start it? Because you really should never just leave a car sitting for long periods like that. She will need all new tires at the very, very least.
Jacksonville area has Jacksonville NAS and the Mayport Naval Base as well as a large Marine Logistic Facility on Blount Island on the St Johns river in Jacksonville and the nearby Kings Bay submarine Base which is the largest Sub base in the USA and is 38 miles from Jacksonville. All these combined rival even Norfolk with over 100K Personnel. We also used to have the 66,000 acre Cecil Field NAS the former Master Jet base for the east coast . Miramar is the west coast master jet base. It closed during a round of base closings later the Navy realized their mistake and wanted it back but by that time the City had already spent millions turning it into a Commercial aviation hub, industrial complex, Florida State College Campus and home to McDonnell - Douglas jet repair and refurbishing facility. We love the Navy here!
I was the in the US navy for 22 years. The last 3 I was in command of the USS good ship lollypop. We supplied candy and confectionery to most of the islands in the Pacific region.. Good Times.
It's funny that you mentioned Germany toward the end. I was stationed there for 2 years. Grafenwohr Germany, at least the Army post is like an American town. We would travel around and see all of the Germany sights, clubs, and even venture into surrounding countries (as private individuals traveling). A few of my friends even married German women. Even here in the U.S. military installations are cities unto themselves. They're not under state or local jurisdiction, and have their own laws. It blows a lot of Americans minds that you could literally live on an Army post, and not need to leave. We have restaurants, bowling alleys, movie theaters, grocery stores, lots of gyms, childcare facilities, hospitals, and even bars.... Everything a normal city would have....
One thing I noticed when they were talking about the last base is that it is also the home of the us Navy's test pilot school, the equivalent to the air force aerospace test pilots School at Edwards Air Force Base in California Graduates of both courses has pilots who have become astronaut candidates who eventually were selected
The ship you said looked like a stealth ship(Zumwalt class) is what I like to describe as flushing $3 billion down the shitter! What a waste! It was supposed to use the rail gun which was cancelled when they figured out the rounds were going to be $800,000 per shot...
Mark 8:53. Howdy! 🤠. Apparently people don't give much thought to how places get their names, even if they live there. (Except here, because it began as the founder's plantation home, and you can tell by just looking at it, and it is named for him.) But anyway, the "USN", had to rename one of their submarines from, "USS Corpus Christi", to, "USS City of Corpus Christi", when they learned what the, English translation is, when people complained that they had named a warship after the, Corpse of Christ! The city was founded by, Spanish Catholics, that built a mission for converting the natives there, centuries ago. Heh. "Stick, Red", or, "Red Stick", sounds less impressive in, English, than it does in, French, as "Baton Rouge". Another place with a funny name, leading to a warship having a funny name. 😁
I know this video is about Naval Bases, but Air Force has its bases as big as Naval Bases such as MacDill Airbase in South Tampa, city within a city. MacDill is the home of US CENTCOM, US Central Command. CENTCOM overseen operations in Middle East and Afghanistan
to see San Diego, watch the open credits for Three's Company tv sitcom.. I was surprised Earle Naval base in New Jersey was not on this list, it is a small area on the water, but has a train line and Road to a larger base inland.
My dad was a corpsman at NAS Corpus Christi for several years, so I spent a lot of time there as a kid. Later, while I was in the Navy, I was stationed aboard a ship home ported at Norfolk. I hate Norfolk, as a whole, with such passion, if it were to seize to exist, I’d probably celebrate.
It was an F-35 that crashed. It’s one of those that can take off vertically. Our newest fighter jet. The pilot did bail out and was safe and the plane wasn’t completely destroyed but pretty close.
I've fished in San Diego Bay a couple times. Can't get close to the ships, obviously. Had my best fights there. A sandshark and a 5 foot shovel nosed ray.
Annapolis is sort of a naval base but it's really the Naval Academy and the biggest ships there are sailboats. Coronado is a spit of land on the west side of San Diego Bay (across from Naval Station San Diego, previously mentioned). The Naval Station and the several parts of Coronado function together in many ways. But it's not in New Mexico--it's in Southern California.
It's crazy to me that the Norfolk Naval Base is larger in personnel than 2nd 3rd and 4th combined... And I live in Virginia. Have been to that area a few times. I did know it is the largest navel construction yard, but had no idea that many personnel were stationed there. Just had no clue. Thanks for the education on that lol
Surprised my hometown of Charleston, SC wasn't on the list. I think it has gotten much smaller over time with various budget cuts but it used to be one of the primary locations for nuclear submarines. There were a few times we were out in a small fishing boat in the harbor and a sub would suddenly whisk right by us. Nevertheless you put together just a couple of these big bases and they are more than the population of an entire country like Iceland.
That crash was an F35 and it was at #8 in your list. Joint reserve base Ft. Worth. I find it odd it's on the list since it's ~250 miles from the ocean. Lockheed Martin builds F35s there.
I wonder what this list would consist of back in 1980. This doesn’t even list Newport News, VA, Groton, CT, Quonset, RI, or Newport, RI where they used to test torpedoes.
One great thing about the US military is the PX. You get everything you can order there. And it's tax free. Pre-corporate tax free! Government tax free!
Naval station Norfolk or NOB as we called it was where I was stationed (sort of), I was on the USS San Antonio and a few other ships but they were attached to that base. I would drive to virginia beach every weekend to go to some shitty night club called Peabodys or something. I was young and dumb, this was well over 10 years ago haha. EDIT: It's not a bad spot. You can go to ODU to learn while you are there.
This list is by population. If go by acreage, there is a naval base in Bloomington, Indiana that is the 3rd biggest naval base in the world. Why would there be a naval base that big (53,000 acres), 750 miles away from any ocean? The Naval Support Activity Crane includes Constitution Grove, which the US Navy maintains to supply White Oak for the USS Constitution. You can see a short UA-cam about it called Preserving Old Ironsides.
To me the importance of the acreage is not size. It's because it expresses the US Navy's commitment to suppling the oak for the USS Constitution. They are maintaining a forest for this historical symbol of the country and the navy. @@chrispavlich9656
I will never understand a top 10 list that starts at number 1. Lived in Jacksonville for 20 years, and it would be the wrong place to attack lol. 3 Navy bases within about a 50 mile radius(NAS JAX, NS Mayport, and Kings Bay Submarine base right across the state line into Georgia. I actually got to ride on a sub back in like 1996. My dad retired as a master machinist at Kings Bay, and arranged to get us on a little cruise lol. Things were different before 9/11.
Born and raised in Norfolk and still here . I Love Norfolk and Virginia . When things were not going too well for Lord Dunmore , the last Royal Governor of Virginia . he fled the Capitol at Williamsburg , he and several British warships ended up anchored along the Norfolk water front . He sent some British Regulars marching south , where they had a skirmish with a few militia men from Virginia and North Carolina . This became known as the battle of Great Bridge . When the citizens of Norfolk refused to supply provisions for the warships , Dunmore ordered that the town be bombarded on Jan. 1 , 1776 . Soldiers were sent ashore during the bombardment and they set fire to many buildings , burning most of the town . About a month later , patriots burned what remained so the British could not use it as a base of operation . There is still a British cannonball embedded in the brick wall of St. Paul's Church , the only colonial era building still standing in the city . ua-cam.com/video/s1oHFEJw4u8/v-deo.html Have always wanted to visit Cornwall since watching the TV mini series ''Poldark'' in the seventies . Never was able , too old now . One of Virginia's most beloved daughters is buried at Gravesend , England . Do you know who? ua-cam.com/video/TlBhtyurXjk/v-deo.html
#4 San Diego and #9 Coronado are just across San Diego Bay from each other so you could also add those together. Coronado is also home to SEAL BUDs training. The F-35 crashed at Fort Worth, and was on the ground when the pilot ejected so he didn't have much time under the canopy of the parachute.
And similarly, NAS Jacksonville and Naval Station Mayport are on the same river--the St. Johns--in northeast Florida.
Beautiful place, Coronado beaches are one of the top rated beaches in the world, and the SEAL BUD training base was the one with the building shaped liked a swastika
One of my buddies just retired & was a fighter pilot, got to pilot F-35s, one of his close friends died when he crashed a jet in training, wasn’t an F-35 tho
And MCRD San Diego, while pains me to say it. Belongs to the Navy, haha.
It wasn't shaped like a swastika. That was just people taking a Rorschach test that exposed their mental illness.
If you pause at 3:55 you can see the USS Arizona memorial in the background. The white floating structure.
I was stationed at the Norfolk and Sandiego bases. Coronado is in San Diego across the bay from the other base. Most of the bases have restaurants, movie theaters, Grocery stores and department stores, fire departments and some have schools for the children.
They are quite literally cities amongst themselves. It's insane. BUT it is not cheap.
I spent almost 20 years in and around Norfolk. Went to undergrad and graduate school there at Old Dominion University. There are 3 types of people you will meet when you step outside of your house, even if you are only going across the street. 1. A current military enlistee. 2. A veteran, 3. A shipyard worker.
Grew up in the Virginia Beach/Norfolk area from 79-96. My old man was born out there, joined the Navy and got stationed there on the USS America and got out of the Navy and kept working for the Navy there on the civilian side as a machinist. And yeah between Norfolk, Little Creek, Dam Neck, Oceana, Fort Eustis, Langley, the different Coast Guard stations, and to a lesser degree Ft. Lee you're right it's almost impossible to go anywhere in the Hampton Roads area without running into someone that is either military, prior military, or civil service of some sort, or a combination of them.
Edit: And while I fit into the veteran and civil service camp my active and reserve duty time was spent either over seas, Texas, or Illinois and after getting out working at Great Lakes NTC under the civil service umbrella doing the same kind of work my dad did there as well. They moved him up there after the BRAC closures in the mid 90's.
Y’all from the 757?? Did y’all hang around Virginia Beach and the oceanfront
@@duskthunder9274 And ever go to The Jewish Mother before they closed? :) How about Sandbridge?
@Darksyde Digital I went to Norfolk State University and yeah, it's definitely a military town.
@@ikec2894 my aunt went there as well. Of course that was nearly 50 years ago.
That “big river” is the San Diego Bay. Coronado is on the west side of the bay and San Diego is on the east side. The bridge in the background is the San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge, which is the only way to get from one side to the other without going several miles south around the bay. I spent the first 56 years of my life in San Diego County. Beautiful city.
Used to be. Then our neighbors elected Democrats and encouraged homelessness, junkies, and criminals to ruin our city.
I was a Navy brat and lived on Bangor Submarine Base (Naval Base Kitsap) as a little girl. My dad was a Naval Officer and worked at Bangor and the Puget Sound Naval shipyard over the years. ❤️🇺🇸
Coronado is located next to San Diego.
Yep yep
The Coronado base is located around San Diego, CA
My Dad was an aviation supply officer and stationed at Patuxent River, Maryland in the ‘70’s. They tested F-14s there and a little known fact, Mary Pickford, silent screen star, owned her house and land that eventually became part of the base there. Her house was still standing when Dad was stationed there and used for officer housing.
The town of Coronado is in San Diego County. It is a spit of land bounded in the south by Mexico and extends northward toward forms San Diego Bay on its eastern border. The Bases and the town of Coronado are mostly on the northern end of the spit. It is connected to the rest of San Diego County by the Coronado Bridge.
That Joint Base Kitsap includes Bremerton Naval Base near Seattle, Washington. Mayport Naval Base is very close to Jacksonville, Florida. Norfolk is just inside the opening into the Chesapeake Bay....and Naval Patuxent River (aka Pax River) is half-way up into the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Patuxent River and about an hour or so from D.C.
As an army brat and served myself. Alot of Military bases, are basically small towns. You can get almost anything you want and never leave base. Even as a kid, i went to see the doctors, dentists and went to school all on the Military base. Both in Germany and in the USA. You have the PX/BX thats basically a walmart, with fast food, tailors, movie rentals( back in the 80s and 90s) movie theaters, basically any type of shop you would need. You had the commissary for groceries alot of bases even have their own banks on base.
My dad has been retired 30 years and still drives half an hour to shop at the commissary.
I was born on Coronado naval base.
I was stationed at Norfolk. Gate traffic and parking was a nightmare, there’s so many people entering at the same time. I lived just a mile away and if work started at 6:30am I’d try to leave by 5:00am to get on base, find parking, walk to the ship and get to my work station. ( vets know “if you’re on time, you’re late”) so hopefully by 6:15am I was busting thru the door.
Yep, if you aren't 15 minutes early, you're late.
Did you ever go to Virginia Beach
@@duskthunder9274 many times
I had to be there at 4 to cook you fuckers breakfast lol. That walk down the pier in the winter was torture. But then I got promoted to Captain's Cook and kept banker's hours if we weren't underway.
I remember that if there wasn’t a carrier in port, you could breathe a little easier.
Military Bases in San Diego County: 1)USMC Miramar (Marine air), USMC Camp Pendleton (Marine training, including hovercraft hangars), 3)USMC Recruit Depot (Marine West Coast boot camp), 4)Naval Base Coronado (Navy air and SEAL training), 5)Naval Base Pt. Loma (Submarines), 6)Naval Base San Diego (Navy fleet), 7)USCG San Diego (Homeland Security Coast Guard). There are approximately 110,700 Active Duty personnel and 118,300 family members, which represents 7.6 percent of San Diego County’s total population.
My nephew is on a Destroyer based in San Diego.
Naval Base Coronado (NBC) is a consolidated Navy installation encompassing eight military facilities stretching from San Clemente Island, located seventy miles west of San Diego, California in Los Angeles County, California, to the Mountain Warfare Training Camp Michael Monsoor and Camp Morena, located sixty miles east of San Diego.
My dad trained to be a Marine at Camp Pendleton near Oceanside, California, which is not far from San Diego. This makes sense as the Marines are technically a part of the Navy. San Diego is a very beautiful city. I love it!
I wonder if you add Coronado Navy, San Diego Navy, Miramar Marines, and Pendleton Marines together what # it would be on this list. You can barely call them separate bases.
I lived in Oceanside for a few years. Pendleton would shake my windows all the time. So cool.
I was stationed at Norfolk Naval Station for 4 years and all I have to say is "Never again."
The traffic getting on base every morning is my sleep paralysis demon. I lived one highway exit off base, but if I didn't leave the house by 4 AM, I would be stuck in traffic till 6 AM because you'd have 6 guards checking each ID for every car coming on base. I'd leave at 4, find a parking spot, then set my alarm and sleep in my car till 6:30 as we had to be at work on the ship at 7:00. Left in 2017 and all I have to say is good riddance lol.
The thing about the San Diego base is that Camp Pendleton is nearby. It's the West Coast training base for the Marines. So that whole area is nothing but bases and military personnel.
Mark 11:34. Hehe! Imagine if somehow, someone thought that the speed limit sign for the street or road, was meant for the runway! 😂
Coronado is super close to San Diego!
I worked in construction and we did a lot of work at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst here in New Jersey. It really is just a normal town. After you pass through the security gate, it looks just like anywhere else. There are grocery stores, fast food restaurants, neighborhoods with normal houses, etc. Of course, there are military vehicles and aircraft, but you'll see the same things living in the surrounding towns.
My carrier, USS Kittyhawk (CV63) was based out of NAS North Island in Coronado, CA. I remember being just out of high school when I joined the navy and thinking that the air station was a city unto itself. It had everything you could possibly need.
Naval Base Coronado is about as good as it gets- Coronado Island itself is nestled in San Diego Bay.
I lived 30 minutes from there..Raised in VA all my life..Tough Military! My daughter in law is a officer in the US NAVY..
As a Hawaiian who lives on Oahu and visited the USS Arizona and museum many times growing up, Seeing Pearl Harbor mentioned reminds me how special Hawaii really is.
Valerie Burris Coronado is locate in San Diego,Calif.
You can watch live streaming of the San Diego Naval base and see Subs and Aircraft Carriers coming and going. Very interesting to watch all the support ships involved.
I served in the Army and currently work as a DOD civilian at NAS Jax. You can get a sense that a lot of people work there during the two rush hours each work day as traffic backs up going there in the morning and leaving in the afternoon/evening.
Dave, Jocko was based at Coronado [West Coast SEAL teams are there]. San Diego is surrounded by bases; there's even the MCRD San Diego, the West Coast boot camp for Marine recruits. Go interior a short distance & you reach MCAS Miramar, go north a short distance & you arrive at Camp Pendleton. If one added all the military personnel in SoCal it'd dwarf everywhere else...
I'm 20 minutes from the Norfolk base in Virginia
My brother was stationed at Norfolk VA for 6 years. He was a Nuclear Engineer. He spent the late 70's stationed in the water by Iran.
My brother was originally born in Germany when my Dad was stationed over there in the Army. So, when he chose to go into the Navy. He also chose to be a United States Citizen.
Uh, he was already a U.S. citizen if his father was.
@@docsavage8640 he had to sign papers to choose which citizenship.
@@lisas572 can’t he get both?
@@Darksoil4555 no
My sister is stationed in Guam. She literally parked her car in long term parking for the last 3 years and had her husband’s car shipped over.
Does someone move or start it? Because you really should never just leave a car sitting for long periods like that. She will need all new tires at the very, very least.
Jacksonville area has Jacksonville NAS and the Mayport Naval Base as well as a large Marine Logistic Facility on Blount Island on the St Johns river in Jacksonville and the nearby Kings Bay submarine Base which is the largest Sub base in the USA and is 38 miles from Jacksonville. All these combined rival even Norfolk with over 100K Personnel. We also used to have the 66,000 acre Cecil Field NAS the former Master Jet base for the east coast . Miramar is the west coast master jet base. It closed during a round of base closings later the Navy realized their mistake and wanted it back but by that time the City had already spent millions turning it into a Commercial aviation hub, industrial complex, Florida State College Campus and home to McDonnell - Douglas jet repair and refurbishing facility. We love the Navy here!
I was the in the US navy for 22 years. The last 3 I was in command of the USS good ship lollypop. We supplied candy and confectionery to most of the islands in the Pacific region.. Good Times.
Salute!!!
Never a dull moment in the Hampton Roads. There are a lot of folks that drop by because of the NATO HQ, and the tens of other bases in the area.
I live next to the largest naval base in the world in Norfolk Virginia
It's funny that you mentioned Germany toward the end. I was stationed there for 2 years. Grafenwohr Germany, at least the Army post is like an American town. We would travel around and see all of the Germany sights, clubs, and even venture into surrounding countries (as private individuals traveling). A few of my friends even married German women. Even here in the U.S. military installations are cities unto themselves. They're not under state or local jurisdiction, and have their own laws. It blows a lot of Americans minds that you could literally live on an Army post, and not need to leave. We have restaurants, bowling alleys, movie theaters, grocery stores, lots of gyms, childcare facilities, hospitals, and even bars.... Everything a normal city would have....
One thing I noticed when they were talking about the last base is that it is also the home of the us Navy's test pilot school, the equivalent to the air force aerospace test pilots School at Edwards Air Force Base in California
Graduates of both courses has pilots who have become astronaut candidates who eventually were selected
Number 5 Kitsap is in the West in the state of Washington. Coronado is in California near San Diego. Patuxent base is in the East in Maryland.
Coronado is on the other side of San Diego. The Coronado bridge connects them. I’ve stayed many times at Coronado
The ship you said looked like a stealth ship(Zumwalt class) is what I like to describe as flushing $3 billion down the shitter! What a waste! It was supposed to use the rail gun which was cancelled when they figured out the rounds were going to be $800,000 per shot...
Mark 8:53. Howdy! 🤠. Apparently people don't give much thought to how places get their names, even if they live there. (Except here, because it began as the founder's plantation home, and you can tell by just looking at it, and it is named for him.) But anyway, the "USN", had to rename one of their submarines from, "USS Corpus Christi", to, "USS City of Corpus Christi", when they learned what the, English translation is, when people complained that they had named a warship after the, Corpse of Christ! The city was founded by, Spanish Catholics, that built a mission for converting the natives there, centuries ago.
Heh. "Stick, Red", or, "Red Stick", sounds less impressive in, English, than it does in, French, as "Baton Rouge". Another place with a funny name, leading to a warship having a funny name. 😁
I know this video is about Naval Bases, but Air Force has its bases as big as Naval Bases such as MacDill Airbase in South Tampa, city within a city. MacDill is the home of US CENTCOM, US Central Command. CENTCOM overseen operations in Middle East and Afghanistan
I like the beginning of the video when the sailor parallel parked an aircraft carrier.
Indian Island in Washington. The second busiest port in the American Navy with the less ordinance handlers. We out do those 5 times our size.
We all knew Norfolk would be #1 and I feel like it deserves its own video. Really the naval base is its own city.
It’s a city AND suburbs combined 😂 it’s a whole industry
@@Rhov9 I feel like I asked this already but do they get their own zip code for mailing?
I live near it
to see San Diego, watch the open credits for Three's Company tv sitcom.. I was surprised Earle Naval base in New Jersey was not on this list, it is a small area on the water, but has a train line and Road to a larger base inland.
Hello , Coronado, is in San Diego, across the Naval Base San Diego,32nd Navy Base.
My dad was a corpsman at NAS Corpus Christi for several years, so I spent a lot of time there as a kid. Later, while I was in the Navy, I was stationed aboard a ship home ported at Norfolk. I hate Norfolk, as a whole, with such passion, if it were to seize to exist, I’d probably celebrate.
Coranado is very close to San Diego. It’s just a couple miles south of the downtown area.
It was an F-35 that crashed. It’s one of those that can take off vertically. Our newest fighter jet. The pilot did bail out and was safe and the plane wasn’t completely destroyed but pretty close.
You sure he wasn't talking about the F-22 crash? The one where the pilot tried to take off before he had reached full rotation speed.
Talking about the one near DFW, here in Texas?
@@ExUSSailor not sure I know like a week ago an F-35 crashed and was about 10-15 ft off the ground and bailed out
Yeah, pilot error. Reading the report afterwards made a note of it.
You can thank the little bird that got sucked into the vertical lift fan there's a video out that shows it
Coronado is right next to San Diego CA
Coronado is in California
That is san Diego that has the stadium. The city is one big military city. Personal, family, retired, etc.
Coronado is in San Diego
I've fished in San Diego Bay a couple times. Can't get close to the ships, obviously.
Had my best fights there. A sandshark and a 5 foot shovel nosed ray.
Coronado is in san Diego county!
I was stationed at both Naval Sub Base Pt. Loma San Diego (across the bay from Naval Base San Diego) and Pearl Harbor during my enlistment.
Coronados base is right next to San Diegos base.
number 9 is in cali. its where the navy seals train too. most of that he was talking about was for the seals i think.
Annapolis is sort of a naval base but it's really the Naval Academy and the biggest ships there are sailboats.
Coronado is a spit of land on the west side of San Diego Bay (across from Naval Station San Diego, previously mentioned). The Naval Station and the several parts of Coronado function together in many ways. But it's not in New Mexico--it's in Southern California.
Norfolk is about 4 hours from me and it’s impressive to say the least
The crash happened to an F-35. The planes in the video that prompted your comment were F-22s. Both from Lockheed-Martin.
I spent time at Pax River training on P3s in 1972 and 1973.
I live in San Diego. Not sure why anyone would pretend San Diego & Coronado are separate when they're not even a mile apart.
My last day in the Navy, 2 carriers came home...it took me over 3 hours just to get off base
It's crazy to me that the Norfolk Naval Base is larger in personnel than 2nd 3rd and 4th combined... And I live in Virginia. Have been to that area a few times. I did know it is the largest navel construction yard, but had no idea that many personnel were stationed there. Just had no clue. Thanks for the education on that lol
Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland has Army and Navy bases in the surrounding area.
Surprised my hometown of Charleston, SC wasn't on the list. I think it has gotten much smaller over time with various budget cuts but it used to be one of the primary locations for nuclear submarines. There were a few times we were out in a small fishing boat in the harbor and a sub would suddenly whisk right by us. Nevertheless you put together just a couple of these big bases and they are more than the population of an entire country like Iceland.
Do one on Army base. Huger than all military bases. Over 50,000 soldiers.
That crash was an F35 and it was at #8 in your list. Joint reserve base Ft. Worth. I find it odd it's on the list since it's ~250 miles from the ocean.
Lockheed Martin builds F35s there.
I was stationed at Ft. Eustis. Saw this. Impressive.
The plane that had a ground accident was a F-35 Marine vertical take off and landibg
I wonder what this list would consist of back in 1980. This doesn’t even list Newport News, VA, Groton, CT, Quonset, RI, or Newport, RI where they used to test torpedoes.
Coronado is in San Diego, also.
The Philadelphia Eagles' stadium, is next the the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
We were stationed at 7 of those bases. Mayport 2x.
You guys should watch the video of the Gerald R Ford carrier visiting the UK. It looks gigantic from the videos
Coronado is also on San Diego
I lived about 3 blocks from NAS Jacksonville.
One great thing about the US military is the PX. You get everything you can order there. And it's tax free. Pre-corporate tax free! Government tax free!
This is a great video, however they did not clarify that Kitsap is in Washington State. LOL!
Coronado is in San Diego CA.
Hi Boys.... Coronado is in California very close to San Diego.
Didn’t know Pearl Harbor was that big😮😮😮. From Hawaii and funny that I didn’t know.
Naval station Norfolk or NOB as we called it was where I was stationed (sort of), I was on the USS San Antonio and a few other ships but they were attached to that base. I would drive to virginia beach every weekend to go to some shitty night club called Peabodys or something. I was young and dumb, this was well over 10 years ago haha. EDIT: It's not a bad spot. You can go to ODU to learn while you are there.
Im an office bloke at heart! 🤣
Coronado is at San Diego Training Ground for thé SEAL Community
This list is by population. If go by acreage, there is a naval base in Bloomington, Indiana that is the 3rd biggest naval base in the world. Why would there be a naval base that big (53,000 acres), 750 miles away from any ocean? The Naval Support Activity Crane includes Constitution Grove, which the US Navy maintains to supply White Oak for the USS Constitution. You can see a short UA-cam about it called Preserving Old Ironsides.
Doesn’t matter how many acres it is (although impressive) what matters is the number of support personnel to run it.
To me the importance of the acreage is not size. It's because it expresses the US Navy's commitment to suppling the oak for the USS Constitution. They are maintaining a forest for this historical symbol of the country and the navy. @@chrispavlich9656
As a US soldier and anylist. You missed one.... where red October is
I can't say but it's definitely the most expensive in the Naval forces here in the United States
10 of 40 naval bases in continental u.s. besides Pearl
I will never understand a top 10 list that starts at number 1.
Lived in Jacksonville for 20 years, and it would be the wrong place to attack lol. 3 Navy bases within about a 50 mile radius(NAS JAX, NS Mayport, and Kings Bay Submarine base right across the state line into Georgia. I actually got to ride on a sub back in like 1996. My dad retired as a master machinist at Kings Bay, and arranged to get us on a little cruise lol. Things were different before 9/11.
Teach and graduate personnel and take care of their families
That video should's narrator should say, "Would you like to know more?"
I was told San Diego is like LA but nice.
Not nearly as smoggy as HELL-A.
It wasn't a F-22 raptor that crash was f-35 lightning
Our Military gets $53 Billion a year