California's Bay Area Is An Ideal Location For A New Navy Shipyard
In the rush to add naval capacity to the Pacific, the U.S. Navy has almost completely overlooked the Bay Area. Central California's Cold War-era na...
In the rush to add naval capacity to the Pacific, the U.S. Navy has almost completely overlooked the Bay Area. Central California's Cold War-era naval support facilities are long gone, but the Bay Area's gritty and often-overlooked riverine waterfront offers interesting potential for a Navy desperate to bulk up in-theatre options for nuclear submarine maintenance. Every Navy admiral and Washington stakeholder agrees the Navy's overworked submarine fleet needs a new naval shipyard and more maintenance support.