Officially Licensed US Navy Naval Base Coronado legacy patch.
The Navy's West Coast Quarterdeck — Silver Strand to North Island.
Naval Base Coronado (NBC) is the Navy's West Coast Quarterdeck — a consortium of nine Navy installations in San Diego, California that provides operational and training support for 17 squadrons, three aircraft carriers, four SEAL Teams, and dozens of additional commands. The base traces a deep aviation and amphibious heritage: NAS North Island was the Navy's original West Coast naval air station and is the home of the Navy's first aircraft carrier (USS Langley), the first Atlantic-to-Pacific transcontinental flight, and one of the largest carrier homeports on the West Coast. Naval Amphibious Base Coronado was established on June 12, 1943 when the Secretary of the Navy authorized an Amphibious Training Base on the Silver Strand between San Diego Bay and the Pacific Ocean to train Marines and Sailors for the Pacific island-hopping campaign — formally commissioned in January 1944, with the City of Coronado leasing half an acre of beach and 134 acres of landfill to the Navy for $1 a year. NAB Coronado is approximately 1,000 acres in size and is the West Coast focal point for special and expeditionary warfare training — the home of Naval Special Warfare Command, Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training, the Naval Special Warfare Center, and the boats and small craft of the SWCC community. Add NAS North Island, NAB Coronado, NOLF Imperial Beach, Naval Outlying Field San Clemente Island, the Navy Munitions Command, and the rest of the consortium and you have the foundation of every West Coast deployment. This patch is the Coronado legacy.
Perfect For: Naval Base Coronado Sailors and Marines, NAS North Island and NAB Coronado personnel, Naval Special Warfare and BUD/S graduates, Pacific Fleet carrier strike group sailors, San Diego Navy community members, and Coronado-stationed military families.
NBC — Navy's West Coast Quarterdeck since 1944.
