Naval Special Warfare Center
The Naval Special Warfare Center (NSWC) (officially: United States Phil Bucklew Naval Special Warfare Center , colloquially: The Center ) is the central training facility for special warfare of the US Navy and a component command of the superordinate US Naval Special Warfare Command (NAVSPECWARCOM or NAVSOC) (German naval command for special warfare of the United States ).
The NSWC trains both the US Navy SEALs and the Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen (SWCC) and is headquartered at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado in the US state of California .
assignment
Selection, education and training and provision of personnel for the special operations units of the US Navy as well as ensuring a constant readiness for action. Constant improvement, adaptation and further development of deployment and training procedures as well as their personal and technical implementation.
organization
The following units and training institutions are subordinate to the NSWC:
- NAVSCIATTS, Stennis, ( Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School ), Stennis Space Center , Mississippi .
- CTR DET ( Combat Training Range Detachment ), Naval Air Station Key West , Florida
- CTR DET, Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek , Virginia
- CTR DET, Little Creek, VA
- CTR DET, Hurlburt Field , Florida
- CTR DET, Yuma Proving Ground , Arizona
- DET KODIAK, Naval Special Warfare Cold Weather Detachment Kodiak , Alaska
- NSWC ADV TRNG, Coronado, CA
- Naval SPECWAR SEAL Delivery Vehicle (SDV) Training Detachment, Naval Support Activity Panama City (NSA PC), Florida
- CTR DET, La Posta Mountain Warfare Training Facility near Campo , California.
Web links
- SEALSWCC.COM (English)
- NSWC with subordinate detachments (English)
- The NAVSPECWARCOM at globalsecurity.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mir Bahmanyar, Michael Welply: US Navy Seals . Osprey Publishing, 2005, ISBN 9781841768076 , p. 16.
- ↑ cnic.navy.mil , accessed May 17, 2009
- ↑ cnic.navy.mil , accessed May 17, 2009