NSA Mid-South, TN Installation Guide

NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY MID-SOUTH RELOCATION ASSISTANCE CENTER MILLINGTON TN 38054-5045

The SITE number for NAVSUPPACT Mid-South is 4330.

Naval Support Activity Mid-South is located in Millington, TN, 21 miles north of downtown Memphis.

The base is home to Naval Support Activity and host to many tenant activities including Navy Band Memphis, Navy Personnel Command, Commander Naval Recruiting Command, Defense Automated Printing Service, DECA Memphis Defense Commissary, Branch Dental Clinic Memphis, Defense Investigative Service, Human Resources Office, Branch Medical Clinic Memphis, Navy Manpower Analysis Center, Navy Campus Millington, Naval Criminal Investigative Service Resident Agency, Navy Exchange Memphis, Naval Legal Service Office, Navy Personnel Research and Development Center, Naval Telecommunications Center Memphis, Personnel Support Detachment Memphis, Naval Reserve Readiness Command Region Nine, Naval Reserve Center, Resident Officer in Charge of Construction, US Army Corps of Engineers Finance Center(DFAS), US Army National Guard, US Army Veterinarian Service Millington, Federal Prison, US Post Office, American Red Cross, First South Credit Union, Flying Club, Navy and Marine Corps Relief Society, Millington Municipal Airport, and Millington Aviation Service.

The mission of the Naval Support Activity is to maintain and operate facilities, to provide administrative and logistic support to tenant activities and to perform such other functions and tasks assigned by higher authority.

As of August 1999: Population assigned: 5,350, Active Duty Officer: 475, Active Duty Enlisted: 1533, Retirees: Over 50,000, Civilian Employees (appropriated fund, non-appropriated fund, and contract): 2,005, Reserve Component Officers: 357, Reserve Component Enlisted: 1437.

Commercial Telephone Access (901) 874-xxxx, DSN 882-xxxx

History : Naval Support Activity (NAVSUPPACT) Mid-South, as it is known today, was first commissioned as a Naval Reserve Air Base (NRAB), September 15, 1942. Originally conceived in 1942, NAVSUPPACT Mid-South emerged from beginnings as Park Field, an Army Signal Corps Aviation School used to train pilots and ground crews for service with the Allied Forces during World War I. When commissioned as an NRAB, the primary mission of the base was to train aviation pilots to pilot proficiency for action in World War II. NRAB was first officially designated a Naval Air Station January 1, 1943, and encompassed what is now referred to as Northside (that area north of Millington-Arlington (Navy) Road), with its administrative buildings and runways. At the conclusion of World War II, the air station Northside was assigned to the Reserve Training Command and was utilized almost exclusively for reserve training until 1948. The concept of the former Naval Air Station (NAS) Memphis was completely changed April 1, 1949. On this date, all support and logistics requirements of the activities aboard the naval reservation, including that area south of Navy Road, except the Naval Hospital, were assigned as responsibilities of the former Naval Air Station. NAVSUPPACT Mid-South, previously NAS Memphis, was officially established October 1, 1995, as NAVSUPPACT Memphis , a result of the 1993 Base Realignment and Closure Commission decision. On October 1, 1998, the name was changed to the present NAVSUPPACT Mid-South. The original 22-hundred acre base had grown to a 35-hundred acre complex..from a $203,000 parcel of land to a community of land, buildings, and equipment with a replacement value of over one billion dollars..from a two-room operation in the Shelby County Courthouse to one of the largest inland installations in the world. Today, NAVSUPPACT Mid-South operates and functions with an allowance of approximately 652 enlisted and officer personnel, civilians, and full-time contract personnel, who provide all essential logistic and operational support services to the commands and activities on board. Considered by resident activities as the landlord of Navy Mid-South, NAVSUPPACT Mid-South performs the many tasks necessary for the proper functioning of a self-contained city, including housing, food service, utilities, and facilities for purchase of essential food and personal items. Located in Millington, TN, some 21 miles north of the city of Memphis, NAVSUPPACT Mid-South is seven miles east of the Mississippi River. As the base has grown, so has its impact on the area. It plays an important part in the Memphis community and is one of the largest single businesses in the state of Tennessee.

The primary tenant of NAVSUPPACT Mid-South is the Bureau of Naval Personnel, which recently relocated here from Washington, DC. The command is now known as the Navy Personnel Command. The following is a history of the Bureau of Naval Personnel: Naval personnel matters were originally handled by the Secretary of War until the establishment of the Navy Department on 30 April 1798. It was not until 1815 that the Secretary of the Navy took control of personnel matters. In 1861, the Office of Detail was created and functions related to the detailing of officers and the appointment and instruction of volunteer officers, as well as the purchase of ships and related matters were transferred. The Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting was concurrently established to handle enlisted recruiting and service record maintenance. The Bureau of Navigation was established in 1862 and three years later the office of Detail was placed under it. In 1889, The Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting transferred its enlisted personnel activities to the Bureau of Navigation as well. On 13 May 1942, the command's name changed to the Bureau of Naval Personnel, and in 1982 it changed to Naval Military Personnel Command. In 1991, the name changed back to the Bureau of Naval Personnel or "BUPERS" for short. BUPERS is led by the Chief of Naval Personnel. The organizational chart for Navy Personnel Command is as follows: NPC-00, Commander, Navy Personnel Command; NPC-01, Administrative Officer; NPC-02, Comptroller/Resources Management Office; NPC-03, Management & Organizational Services Office; NPC-05, Public Affairs Office; NPC-06, Office of Legal Counsel; NPC-3, Business Operations; NPC-4, Distribution; NPC-6, Personal Readiness & Community Support; NPC-8, Pers Progression, Performance & Security; and NPC-9, Reserve Personnel Management.