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Naval Base Guam is a strategic U.S. naval base located on Apra Harbor and occupying the Orote Peninsula. In 2009, it was combined with Andersen Air Force Base to form Joint Region Marianas, which is a Navy-controlled joint base. The Ship Repair Facility, Guam, was located next to Naval Base Guam, along Apra Harbor.
Apra Harbor from the south, with Naval Base Guam on the Orote Peninsula in the foreground. Apra Harbor, also called Port Apra, [1] is a deep-water port on the western side of the United States territory of Guam. It is considered one of the best natural ports in the Pacific Ocean. [2]
On the morning of 14 October 1971, the submarine tender USS Hunley entered Apra Harbor, Guam and immediately upon mooring at Polaris Point, set about the complex chore of relieving Proteus. On 2 November 1971, Proteus departed Guam en route to the U.S. Naval Shipyard, Mare Island, California, for an extensive shipyard overhaul.
The main base of USNB Guam, sometimes called "Big Navy" is located south of Outer Apra Harbor in Santa Rita, mostly on the Orote Peninsula. Big Navy is home of Commander Submarine Squadron 15, Coast Guard Sector Guam, and Naval Special Warfare Unit Det Guam and supports 28 other tenant commands.
The Port of Guam (officially, Jose D. Leon Guerrero Commercial Port) handles over ninety percent of total imports to the United States island territory of Guam. [2] Located in the north of Apra Harbor on Cabras Island , it shares harbor waters with Naval Base Guam and two small marinas. [ 3 ]
Naval Base Guam (1944–current), the main Naval installation on Apra Harbor and its various components; Commander Naval Forces Marianas (1944–current), responsible for U.S. Naval activities in the region; Joint Region Marianas (2009–current), naval region of the U.S. Navy that includes Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
The commanding officer of Naval Base Guam and former residents of Sumay at the old location of the village on Back to Sumay Day, 2013 The U.S. military prohibited reentry to location of Sumay as Apra Harbor had become a key strategic location of the Pacific War , but residents eventually gathered at Apla, building makeshift homes as they ...
It is located on the Naval Base Guam North Finegayan Telecommunications Site [2] along Guam Highway 3 in Dededo, on the northwest coast of the island. NCTS Guam is under the United States Tenth Fleet's Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific (NCTAMS PAC) and under the installation management authority of Joint Region ...