U.S. Naval Communications Station San Miguel (
NAVCOMSTAPHIL), also,
Naval Station San Miguel was a facility of the
United States NavyThe United States Navy is the sea branch of the U.S. Armed Forces. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. As of 31 December 2008, the U.S. Navy had about 331,682 personnel on active duty and 124,000 in the Navy Reserve. It operates 283 ships in active service and more than...
located in
San AntonioSan Antonio is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Zambales in the Philippines. According to the latest Philippine census, it has a population of 32,494 people in 6,483 households.- Barangays :...
,
ZambalesZambales is a province of the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. Its capital is Iba. Zambales borders Pangasinan to the north, Tarlac and Pampanga to the east, and Bataan to the south. The province lies between the South China Sea and the Zambales Mountains. With a land area of...
, The Philippines. During the
Vietnam WarThe Vietnam War or the Second Indochina War was a Cold War military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1959 to 30 April 1975...
, all communications from
VietnamVietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east...
to the
United States MainlandConus is a genus of medium-sized to large, sophisticated predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs, with the common names of cone snails, cone shells or cones. The genus is known from the Eocene to the recent periods...
was routed first through here by an
undersea cableA submarine communications cable is a cable laid beneath the sea to carry telecommunications between countries.The first submarine communications cables carried telegraphy traffic. Subsequent generations of cables carried first telephony traffic, then data communications traffic...
from
Nha TrangNha Trang is a coastal city and capital of Khánh Hòa province, on the South Central Coast of Vietnam. It is bounded on the North by Ninh Hoà district, on the East by the South China Sea, on the South by Cam Ranh town and on the West by Diên Khánh district...
, and was then forwarded to Naval Link Station Mount Santa Rita then to the
HFHF, Hf or hf can refer to:*Hafnium, a chemical element*Hartree–Fock method, a calculation scheme in the field of computational chemistry*Helicon Filter, photo editing software...
transmitterA transmitter is an electronic device which, usually with the aid of an antenna, propagates an electromagnetic signal such as radio, television, or other telecommunications.-Transmitter types:...
site at the Naval Communication Transmitting Facility, Capas in
TarlacTarlac is a landlocked province of the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. Its capital is Tarlac City. Tarlac borders Pampanga to the south, Nueva Ecija to the east, Pangasinan to the north, and Zambales to the west...
.
Besides being a Navy facility, the base also housed a Marine barracks.
The U.S.Naval Communication Facility Philippines, as a command, had been established in the Philippines for many years. Construction at San Miguel began in early 1955. The preactivation detail moved to San Miguel from Sangley Point RP in July 1957 and the balance of the officers and men moved in increments. In January 1958 operations at Sangley Point were terminated and full scale operations at San Miguel commenced.
The base was named for the tiny fishing village of San Miguel which is adjacent to the southern end of the station. The base is located in a semicircular bowl of 1,737 acres, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the South China Sea on the fourth.(1)
Turnover to the Philippines
After its turnover to the
Philippine NavyThe Philippine Navy is the naval arm of the Armed Forces of the Philippines . Its official name in Filipino is Hukbong Dagat ng Pilipinas ....
(PN), the PN subsequently transferred its Naval Training Command from Fort San Felipe,
CaviteCavite is a province of the Philippines located on the southern shores of Manila Bay in the CALABARZON region in Luzon, just 30 kilometers south of Manila. Cavite is surrounded by Laguna to the east, Metro Manila to the northeast, and Batangas to the south...
to Naval Station San Miguel.
See also
- U.S. Naval Radio Facility Bagobantay
U.S. Naval Radio Facility Bagobantay was a communications facility of the United States Navy that was located in Quezon City, The Philippines.- History :...