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The Pride of Navy Medicine. Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD), also known as Bob Wilson Naval Hospital and informally referred to as "Balboa Hospital", or "The Pink Palace" (because the stucco of the first buildings that were constructed was pinkish in color), is a technologically advanced Navy medical treatment facility.
Throughout its 70-year history as a military base, the mission of Naval Training Center (NTC) San Diego was to provide primary, advanced, and specialized training for members of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Naval Reserve. In support of that mission, NTC expanded to include 300 buildings with nearly three million square feet of space.
Naval Base San Diego is the principal homeport of the United States Pacific Fleet, consisting of over 50 ships and over 150 tenant commands. The base is composed of 13 piers stretched over 1,600 acres (650 ha) of land and 326 acres (132 ha) of water. [1] The total on base population is over 24,000 military personnel and over 10,000 civilians .
Naval Base Point Loma ( NBPL) is located in Point Loma, a neighborhood of San Diego, California. It was established on 1 October 1998 when Navy facilities in the Point Loma area of San Diego were consolidated under Commander, Navy Region Southwest. Naval Base Point Loma consists of seven facilities: Submarine Base, Naval Mine and Anti-Submarine ...
The Naval Health Research Center ( NHRC) is a U.S. Department of Defense research center based out of Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego, California. The center undertakes research into operational readiness and infectious diseases. It is a subordinate command of the Naval Medical Research Command. The center now occupies 22 former barracks ...
San Leandro Naval Hospital (World War 2 only) Long Beach Naval Hospital (1964-1994), now Long Beach Towne Center. Naval Hospital Long Beach (1941-1950), now a VA health center. Naval Hospital Oakland (1942-1996), also known as Oak Knoll Naval Hospital. Naval Convalescent Hospital Beaumont.
In use. September 1943 – present. Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton is a large US Navy medical treatment facility in Oceanside, California, part of the United States' Military Health System. Located on Camp Pendleton in Camp Pendleton South, California in San Diego County. The current hospital operates in a 500,000-square-foot, four-story ...
Between 2004 and 2011, he was the chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Naval Medical Center, San Diego, where his department achieved the highest possible accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).He retired from the US Navy in 2013. Academic