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Cheatham Annex is headquarters and home for the Navy's “Combat Stevedores” the predominantly Reserve cargo handling command with one active duty battalion, and home away from home for 10 Reserve battalions, and four regiments.
22 lis 2016 · In 1978, the Navy officially designated Cheatham Annex as the Hampton Roads Recreational Complex. In October of 1998, CAX merged with the adjacent Naval Weapons Station Yorktown. Today, Cheatham Annex and the Station continue to provide valuable and critical support to the Navy.
Background. CAX is located on the site of the former Penniman Shell Loading Plant, which was a large powder- and shell-loading facility operated during World War I.
Cheatham Annex is a Naval Base, located near Williamsburg, Virginia on the York River approximately 35 miles northwest of Norfolk in the heart of the famous Jamestown-Williamsburg-Yorktown Historic Triangle. Although Cheatham Annex was not commissioned until June 1943, the land on which the base...
As part of the Navy’s Mid-Atlantic installation claimant consolidation, Cheatham Annex, formerly an annex of the Fleet Industrial Supply Center, Norfolk, was incorporated with the station on...
1 cze 2002 · Fleet and Industrial Supply Center (FISC), Detachment Cheatham Annex (CAX), is steeped in Supply Corps tradition and history. Located 50 miles northwest of Norfolk in Williamsburg, Va., it is one of the few remaining Supply Depots in the Navy.
Naval Weapons Station Yorktown/Cheatham Annex. sketch of Naval Weapons Station Yorktown in 1961 Source: Susan Clingan, History Of The Naval Weapons Station Yorktown. The site of the current Naval Weapons Station Yorktown was first settled by 200CE (Common Era).
