Navy Munitions Command Established on NWS Yorktown
Navy NewsStand
Story Number: NNS060612-10
Release Date: 6/12/2006 12:16:00 PM
By Lithographer 3rd Class Chad Hallford, Fleet Public Affairs Center Atlantic
YORKTOWN, Va. (NNS) -- By order of Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Mullen, Capt. Gerard O’Regan, commanding officer of Naval Weapons Station Yorktown and Atlantic Ordnance Command, established the Navy Munitions Command at Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, June 8.
The new Navy Munitions Command is designed to align all ashore ordnance support operations in the United States and Asia into one worldwide unit and consolidate 2,100 personnel under three divisions: CONUS (Continental United States) East Division, CONUS West Division and East Asia Division.
“The vision is that we do a better job for the Navy, for the fleet, in providing them the requisite munitions, improved readiness, efficiency and effectiveness,” said O’Regan.
Specifically, Navy Munitions Command will standardize policies related to ashore ordnance support, consolidate resource requirements and serve as the advocate for ordnance funding requirements.
“We [now] have an organization that is flexible, adaptive to where we are not thinking in terms of just single installations, but of capability,” O'Regan added.
O’Regan recognized there will be challenges in this realignment but hopes the command’s vision will encourage and ease Sailors so that “everybody can get on board” with the mission in a new way, one that “looks beyond the borders of our installation.”
As space is unavailable in Norfolk, Yorktown is temporarily viewed as the right choice for the command’s location, given its purpose.
“When a Sailor or a ship needs their ordnance, they don’t care where it comes from, what command it comes from, what station it comes through. What they want is the right ordnance at the right time in the right place," said O’Regan. "This construct will better enable us to do that."
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