Hampton Roads Military

Hampton Roads is home to the world's largest naval base. There are some 108,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel stationed in the area, and the Navy employs more than 41,000 civilians. There are more than 28,000 retired military men and women living in Hampton Roads, and approximately 118,300 dependents of active duty, and civilian personnel. There is a large military presence in Hampton Roads, with each branch of the armed forces represented, pumping over $11 billion into the local economy annually.

Source: www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/hampton-roads.htm

Military Installation	City	Personnel - Military	Personnel - Civilian	Personnel - Other	Combined Payroll	About
Fort Monroe	Hampton	1,450	2,601		$201 million	Headquarters for the Army's Training and Doctrine Command - TRADOC Home to the Joint Task Force Civil Support and the Casemate Museum Only active Army post with a moat Scheduled to close in 2011 as part of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure commission recommendation
Langley Air Force Base	Hampton	8,900	1,600	800	$533 million	One of the first sites of military aviation 27th Fighter Squadron is the first in the Air Force to deployable the F-22A Raptor 94th Squadron is next in line to get the world's most sophisticated fighter Home to the Air Combat Command, the Air Force's largest command, as well as the 9th Air Force's 1st Fighter Wing
Coast Guard Training Center	Yorktown	539	282		$40 million	More than 10,000 students train here each year At any time, about 700 Coast Guardsmen are taking classes here
Yorktown Naval Weapons Station	Yorktown	1,455	1,257			The Navy stores, maintains and loads bombs, missiles and other ordnance for the U.S. Atlantic Fleet at this base Manages the facility formerly known as Cheatham Annex in York County Commands include the Atlantic Ordnance Command and the Navy Expeditionary Medical Support Command
Camp Peary	Williamsburg	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Home to the Armed Forces Experimental Training Activity The CIA uses this 10,000-acre camp as a training center for its officers
Fort Eustis	Newport News	4,516	2,407	540	$767 million	Headquarters for the Army Transportation Center and School, the 7th Transportation Group, the 8th Transportation Brigade, the Military Traffic Management Command's Operations Center and the Army Transportation Museum Played a vital role in mobilizing thousands of reservists during their call-up for the war with Iraq
Fort Story	Virginia Beach	987			$91.7 million	Home of the 11th Transportation Battalion, which conducts amphibious operations The Army's only saltwater-purification training site
Navy Supervisor of Shipbuilding	Newport News	56	349		$26 million	Oversees the shipyard's work on Navy ships and submarines being built or overhauled
Norfolk Naval Station (including Chambers Field)	Norfolk	54,000		11,000	$6.29 billion	Largest naval base in the world There are 70 ships home-ported at the naval station Chambers Field is home to 16 aircraft squadrons
Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base	Virginia Beach/Norfolk	7,800	1,623		$463 million	The largest amphibious base in the world East Coast headquarters of the Navy SEALs Home to 101 shore commands, 16 Navy ships, 36 hovercraft and 27 conventional beach landing crafts
Coast Guard Atlantic Area	Portsmouth			3000 (combined)	$190 million	The operations hub for the 5th Coast Guard District and the headquarters for Coast Guard activities from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean
Norfolk Naval Shipyard	Portsmouth	60	7,600		$570 million	A government-owned, nuclear-capable ship repair and maintenance facility The oldest continuously operated shipyard in the country
Portsmouth Naval Medical Center	Portsmouth		6,536		$81.3 million	The Navy's oldest continuously run hospital
Oceana Naval Air Station (including Dam Neck Annex)	Virginia Beach	13,046	3,915		$1.12 billion	Home to 18 squadrons of F-14 Tomcat fighters and F/A-18 Hornets, about 240 aircraft Tomcats are on their way out of service, with the last flights due in September