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Naval Support Activity Mid-South

Naval Support Activity Mid-South (NSA Mid-South, NAVSUPPACT Mid-South, NSAMS), in Millington, Tennessee, is a base of the United States Navy. A part of the Navy Region Southeast and the Navy Installations Command, NSA Mid-South serves as the Navy’s Human Resources Center of Excellence. The base is host to several commands and other military tenants: Navy Personnel Command, Navy Recruiting Command, the Navy Manpower Analysis Center, a Marine Corps Reserve Company - Bridge Company C (6th Engineer Support Battalion (ESB), 4th Marine Logistics Group (MLG)) and the US Army Corps of Engineers Finance Center. More than 7,500 military, civilian, and contract personnel are assigned/work on base.[1]

Naval Support Activity Mid-South

35°20′05″N 089°52′09″W / 35.33472°N 89.86917°W / 35.33472; -89.86917

Naval support activity

Department of Defense

US Navy

Navy Region Southeast

Operational

Official website

1917 (1917) (as Park Field)

1917 – present

Navy Ten Nautical Miler

Captain Mike Mosbruger

Initially established as Park Field, it was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established after the United States entry into World War I in April 1917.[2]


The NSA has over 7,500 enlisted and officer personnel, civilians, and full-time contract personnel, who provide all essential logistic and operational support to the commands and activities on board. As the base has evolved and changed, so has its impact on the area. It plays an important part in the community and is one of the largest single employers in the state of Tennessee.[3]

Navy Personnel Command

Navy Recruiting Command

Navy Manpower Analysis Center

Navy Personnel Research, Studies, and Technology

Bridge Company C, 6th ESB, 4th Marine Logistics Group, Marine Forces Reserve

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Finance Center

Of the more than 30 tenant commands that are located aboard Naval Support Activity Mid-South, these are some of the major commands:

Flag City Freedom Celebration - the annual Fourth of July fireworks display, seeing more than 40,000 visitors to NSA Mid-South's Navy Lake recreational facility.

- a community-police awareness-raising event held the first Tuesday of August. NSA Mid-South's NNO event is one of the largest nationwide.

National Night Out

Leadership Millington - a leadership program sponsored by the Millington Chamber of Commerce, which includes a day touring NSA Mid-South.

Throughout the year, NSA Mid-South partners with the Millington and Memphis communities to put on several projects:

Disestablishment of Naval Air Technical Training Center (NATTC) Memphis and the establishment of a new NATTC Pensacola at , Florida, on the grounds of the former Naval Aviation Depot (NADEP) Pensacola. (BRAC also directed the disestablishment of NADEP Pensacola).

NAS Pensacola

Relocation of all U.S. Navy and enlisted aviation "A" schools and "C" schools at NATTC Memphis to NATTC Pensacola.

United States Marine Corps

Disestablishment of Naval Air Reserve Memphis and disestablishment or transfer/relocation of all assigned Naval Air Force Reserve and /Marine Air Reserve aircraft and aviation squadrons.

4th Marine Aircraft Wing

Relocation of the Navy Personnel Command (NAVPERSCOM)/ (BUPERS) from Washington, D.C., to buildings and facilities previously occupied by NATTC Memphis.

Bureau of Naval Personnel

List of Training Section Air Service airfields

Naval Support Activity Mid-South's official Web site

Naval Support Activity Mid-South's official Facebook page

Naval Support Activity Mid-South's official Twitter page