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NMC Establishes New Detachment at NAS Sigonella

Navy NewsStand

Story Number: NNS090925-12
Release Date: 9/25/2009 4:06:00 PM

By Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Whitfield M. Palmer, Navy Public Affairs Support Element, East, Detachment Sigonella

SIGONELLA, Sicily (NNS) -- Navy Munitions Command (NMC) unveiled a new sign and held a ribbon cutting ceremony Sept. 23 for a new detachment being established Oct. 1 at Naval Air Station Sigonella.

NMC Detachment Sigonella will be replacing Naval Air Station (NAS) Sigonella Weapons Department and will provide necessary fleet ordnance support to Navy Region Europe, Africa and Southwest Asia.

"Day-to-day business will remain mostly the same as the former NAS Sigonella Weapons Department, and the staff will also remain the same," said Cmdr. (SW) Kenneth Dalton, the executive officer of the Navy Munitions Command, Continental United States (CONUS), East Division. "The changes are mainly administrative and together we are going to continue servicing our customers in the fleet."

NMC functions as the Navy's center for ordnance management, aligning fleet ordnance support operations ashore worldwide. NMC Detachment Sigonella is one of eleven other detachments under NMC CONUS East Division.