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: In article HTc8e.24133$hB6.9873@trnddc06, "MICHAEL OLEARY" wrote: Does anyone know what the criteria are for designating a NAS as a master jet base? For example NAS Oceana is a master jet base but NAS Whidbey Island is a premier jet base. Any leads would be great. Google wasn't very helpful. -Moe My understanding it's a facilities issues and at a minimum, parallel runways and fuel pits must be part of it. That works at the three I can think of off the top of my head, Cecil (gone of course) Oceana and now MCAS Miramar. NUW with it's single runways and truck pits (at least whe I left in 95) just set up for FCLP's doesn't. Lemoore was also a Master Jet Base at one time, and may still be. It certainly fits into the above criteria. AFAIK, that was an official designation by the Navy, and not just "compliments of a very imaginative public affairs officer". IIRC, there was a big article in one of the glossy rags (All Hands? Approach?) when the first one was designated back in the 60s but don't recall the details. I think NAS Jax is designated as a Master ASW Base, too. Dave in San Diego |
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Dave in San Diego wrote: Allen wrote in : In article HTc8e.24133$hB6.9873@trnddc06, "MICHAEL OLEARY" wrote: Does anyone know what the criteria are for designating a NAS as a master jet base? For example NAS Oceana is a master jet base but NAS Whidbey Island is a premier jet base. Any leads would be great. Google wasn't very helpful. -Moe With my curiosity now piqued I did some searching and found this out of a Navy Fire Safety Article. at the link http://www.cni.navy.mil/newsletters/Fire_Mar_05.pdf. What is a Master Jet Base? One of the earliest conversations in the old NAVFAC F&ES Program Office centered on the Master Jet Base designation. We¹d seen signs and prominent internet banners proclaiming Naval Air Station So & So as a MASTER JET BASE, but is that an official designation and what exactly constitutes such a designation? A careful look at NATOPS came up empty, as did a direct inquiry to NAVAIR. So is this an urban legend or what? District Fire Chief Steve Vogt of Navy Region Mid Atlantic provided us with what we assume is a definitive answer: I have talked with retired Chief Warrant Officer Joseph Salt (also retired Assistant Fire Chief NAS Oceana) about the MASTER JET BASE designation. It is a term to signify the consolidation of assets given to select air base sites based on the assignment of like aircraft from multiple locations to a single base to support the Fleet mission. Service, support, and supply facilities also had to be consolidated at these Master Jet Bases. Pilot Qualification Training and Fleet Pilot Combat Training for assigned aircraft must also be provided, as well as training facilities and schools to provide the fleet with support personnel (LSO, flight simulators, etc.). Basically; House, Repair, Equip, Train, and Deploy Combat Ready Aircraft to be the Tip of the Nations Sword! Original Master Jet Base Designation was given to; East Coast: NAS Oceana and NAS Cecil Field West Coast: NAS Lemoore and NAS Miramar Since NAS Miramar was transferred to the Marine Corps and NAS Cecil Field was closed, the only remaining MASTER JET BASES are NAS Lemoore and NAS Oceana. While that's interesting I also found a reference in the history of NAS Brunswick at the site http://www.nasb.navy.mil/nasb_history.htm On March 15, 1951, the national ensign was again hoisted to the peak of the flag pole, recommissioning the dormant-base as a Naval Air Facility with the established mission of supporting three land-plane patrol squadrons and one Fleet Aircraft Service Squadron, and a planned future mission as a master jet base. The Navy, in December of 1950, requested $35,000,000 from Congress to be used for this master jet project. Such a base required dual 8,000 foot runways and two outlying fields, one for gunnery and one for carrier practice landings. In June of 1951, the Secretary of Defense submitted a request to Congress for approximately $20,000,000 for the station. This money was to be used for additional barracks, officers' quarters, and enlisted mens' club, control tower, storage, and communication buildings, new galleys and mess facility, to make it a permanent installation. While Brunswick never become a master jet base it still remains a fine place to get a Prowler cheek panel full of lobsters ![]() Pugs |
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