1980s US Navy plan for construction of new bases in continental US
Strategic Homeport was a plan developed in the 1980s by Secretary of the Navy John Lehman for building new U.S. Navy bases within the continental United States. It was proposed as part of the 600-ship Navy plan of the Reagan Administration. It called for the construction of new ports for existing and newly commissioned ships.
The plan was based on five strategic principles:[1]
force dispersal to complicate Soviet targeting
battlegroup integrity
wider industrial base utilization
logistics suitability
geographic considerations such as reduced transit times to likely operating areas
The program was devised in part to achieve a political goal: to build support for the naval expansion program though the promise of new naval bases.[2][3]
The program enjoyed broad support both in Congress and in the Reagan Administration.[citation needed]
^Lewis, Billy L. (1992). "Strategic Homeporting: National Strategy or Bureaucratic Politics?" (PDF). National War College. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 2, 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
^"Ports and Harbors". GlobalSecurity.org. 2010. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
^Lewis, Billy L. (1992). "Strategic Homeporting: National Strategy or Bureaucratic Politics?" (PDF). National War College. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 2, 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
and 23 Related for: Strategic Homeport information
StrategicHomeport was a plan developed in the 1980s by Secretary of the Navy John Lehman for building new U.S. Navy bases within the continental United...
during the creation of the StrategicHomeport program under the administration of President Ronald Reagan. In 1991, the homeport was closed, as part of declining...
part of the Reagan administration's StrategicHomeport program. The station had two sections: a StrategicHomeport in Stapleton where ships docked, and...
Sound-area naval base as part of the StrategicHomeport concept. In the early 1980s, Congress approved the strategichomeporting initiative to build additional...
was planned for operation in the 1980s during the creation of the StrategicHomeport program under the administration of President Ronald Reagan. It was...
location as one of the new StrategicHomeport sites. Base construction began in 1988, and the station became an operational homeport of Perry-class guided-missile...
Staten Island called Naval Station New York. It had two sections: a StrategicHomeport in Stapleton and a larger section near Fort Wadsworth, where the Verrazzano-Narrows...
or after decommissioning, she is referred to by name, with no prefix. Homeport as listed at the Naval Vessel Register Archived 30 June 2007 at the Wayback...
Reagan's two terms as governor of California and the ship's Pacific Fleet homeport. The three aircraft's patriotic contrails symbolize the three major military...
for the submarines as they transit on the surface, to and from their homeports. The unit includes some smaller vessels, and two Marine Protector class...
Station, Charleston, SC. The submarine and crew then received a change of homeport to Naval Submarine Base, Bangor, WA and assisted on the west coast in various...
The National. 30 September 2020. "USS Hershel 'Woody' Williams Shifts Homeport to Greece". Sea Power Magazine. 5 October 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2023...
Convention) decided to ban the passage through the straits of any warships whose homeport is not in the Black Sea. The Caspian Flotilla, established on 4 November...
was to be phased in over the summer and take effect 31 August 1995, with homeport shifts occurring through 1998. In September 1995 the following ship assignments...
NIMITZ CLASS" (PDF). "America 'Sails Away' for Maiden Transit to San Diego Homeport". United States Navy. 10 October 2014. Archived from the original on 20...
Indo-Pacific Command and the site of the Pearl Harbor attacks, and San Diego, the homeport of the Navy's Pacific Fleet. The photo depicts North Korean leader Kim...
their west coast service. MV Alfred was built in Vũng Tàu, Vietnam, by Strategic Marine Vietnam at a cost of £14.5 million, and launched on 22 February...
Complex (231 acres) with 17 Government and Military tenants, as well as homeport for 6 RO-RO Ready Reserve Force Ships, 4 Coast Guard National Security...
Leno, on 14 June 2023. Carnival Venezia will sail year-round from her homeport in Manhattan to the Caribbean and beginning in December 2024, she will...
Retrieved 2022-08-17. Military Balance 2024. The International Institute for Strategic Studies. 2024. ISBN 978-1032780047. "MRTP-24U/SOC SAT Hızlı İntikal Botu"...
the Royal Navy's Indo-Pacific engagement". International Institute for Strategic Studies. Retrieved 20 October 2021. "@HMS_Spey" on Twitter Graham, Euan...
Firenze. The ship left the shipyard on 22 March and sailed to her new homeport of Long Beach, California, after which she was christened by her godfather...
Cortés and Pizarro for supporting the mobility of the Marines and the strategic transport of other ground forces, and acts as a platform for carrier-based...
Global Information