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Aerial view of the Naval Medical Center San Diego as seen in the 1950s. An entirely new $270 million hospital complex was built in Florida Canyon, north of the original hospital, during the mid-1980s; the site was chosen at the urging of then-U.S. Representative Bob Wilson, after whom the new hospital complex was subsequently named.
It is part of the largest aerospace-industrial complex in the United States Navy, the 57,000-acre (230 km 2) Naval Base Coronado in San Diego County, California. Naval Amphibious Base Coronado ( 32°40′32″N 117°09′38″W / 32.67547°N 117.160649°W / 32.67547; -117.160649 ( Naval Amphibious Base Coronado
The 1,063-acre (4 km 2) site has a firing range, an administration building, barracks, and a 5,000-metre (16,000 ft) length mountain endurance training course. The United States Navy has operated on the 1,300 acres (5 km 2) plus acres since the early 1960s, and is seeking to set aside an additional 4,486 acres (18.15 km 2) of federal Bureau of Land Management property for the facility.
Defense Health Headquarters, Falls Church, Virginia Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Virginia Naval Medical Center San Diego, California Naval Hospital Naples, Italy Naval Hospital Yokosuka Japan Naval Health Clinic Charleston, South Carolina USNS Mercy (T-AH-19) off the coast of East Timor. BUMED operates the following facilities and commands ...
The Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) is a U.S. Department of Defense research center based out of Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego, California. The center undertakes research into operational readiness and infectious diseases .
On 27 October 2023, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced that the ship would be named after Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD), which is informally known as "Balboa Naval Hospital", to "honor the legacy and commitment of Navy doctors, nurses, corpsmen, and staff of Balboa Naval Hospital in caring for the needs of U.S. Service ...
By the early 1990s, San Diego had become home to more than one-sixth of the Navy's entire fleet. San Diego had more than a dozen major military installations, accounting for nearly 20 percent of the local economy with more than 133,000 uniformed personnel and another 30,000 civilians relying on the military for their livelihood. [5]
The Navy Broadway Complex is a bayside military facility in downtown San Diego, California. It houses the primary offices of the Navy Region Southwest, and is closely tied to regional United States Coast Guard operations. The Global Advanced Traceability and Control (ATAC) and function is housed in the Navy Broadway Complex.