Virtual tour of Naval Station Norfolk

NORFOLK (Oct. 23, 2020) - Virtual tour of Naval Station Norfolk, including waterfront, Admiral’s Row, USS Cole/USS Iowa Memorial and Chambers Field. (U.S. Navy video by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Malachi Lakey)

[@thetoddfather8163]

Never got stationed in Norfolk was in San Diego but seeing all the ships brings back so many great memories.

[@johnbarrios1598]

Same here. Well boot camp in San Diego. Then stationed in Oakland..

[@jacksprat9344]

@@johnbarrios1598 Boot camp San Diego then off to NAS Millington for A School, NAS Norfolk for duty. That shows how long ago it was for me. There is no NAS Norfolk anymore. I was AIMD GSE 930 NAS Norfolk VA.

[@iambeloved496]

So how is being in the navy? I hear a lot of good and bad and considering joining sometimes

[@thetoddfather8163]

@@iambeloved496 it was literally the best thing I have ever done the benefits after service are great as well. Like home depot discounts and better insurance plans with social security. Also no working out everyday.

[@iambeloved496]

@@thetoddfather8163 Sounds great what did you do in the navy that you enjoyed so much?

[@Joe-dy7bb]

I legit saw my car in the pier 14 parking lot.

[@DreadnoughtHvor]

Pray it doesn't get towed

[@luciusvorenus9445]

My Dad's destroyer was home ported at Norfolk in the early 1950s. The only thing he remembered was all the signs that read "Dogs and Sailors: keep off the grass!"

[@gianellicapone8740]

They give all of the stats of the ships? Really smart. What happened to opsec?

[@lexi7773]

My daughter and son in-law are nuke reactor operators there! God Bless the USA! God Bless my kids🙏🏻❤️

[@donquixote44]

So cool that they are both together in the navy thats perfection right there

[@SuperAaaaaazzzzz]

@@donquixote44 ikr 💪

[@kevinvenegas5027]

I'm joining next week. Also going for nuke tech

[@DreadnoughtHvor]

I started as a nuke. Hated it. Community was garbage when I went through the Rickover. Money wasn't worth it. Maybe it's changed. But I left the Navy as a Gunner's Mate. Turns out slinging lead was my true calling.

[@pjjordan5491]

Shame they serve for a war mongerers. But you can still be proud of that .

[@steeleslicer1217]

The ships with the blue and gold stripes on the stack, with the USNS designation are from the Military Sealift Command. The ships are crewed by civilian mariners, mostly as support to the fleet, but also hospital ships like USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy. It would be the actual ship's crew, not medical staff, that are MSC civilian mariners. I served on 4 of the older tankers in the 80's, Truckee, Mississinewa, Pawcatuck and Waccamaw, sometimes out of NAVSTA NORVA (Naval Station, Norfolk, VA). Got to refuel both the USS New Jersey and Iowa. Later, I worked at Naval Aviation Depot at NAS, left in 1990 just before it closed. (@ Bill Grandaddy, I was in 650 Maintenance). NADEP would take F14 Tomcats and A6 Intruders and take them down to the last rivet and rebuild them, including the engines. I could write for year about the cool stuff I saw working for both commands.

[@jotrani924]

Sounds like your book would be awesome!

[@DreadnoughtHvor]

Me, seeing gate traffic again at 0500: **incomprehensible screaming**

[@billreal76]

Worked at the Naval Aviation Depot from 1974-1994. Sounds like a good plank to send an Airman or Seaman Apprentice to pickup cargo on Pier 13.

[@한재빈-b6h]

Yeah you loved country Even thought end of the work still heart forever

[@kentclark9908]

Man I worked at naval station norfolk off and on for about a year and never noticed there was no peir 13

[@billreal76]

@ᆞPooh Merry Christmas!

[@charliekindlesparger5502]

I was born there...1955...My Dad YN1 (SS) served aboard the USS Barbero SS/SSG 317...USS Sea Leopard SS 483...I served there USS Basilone DD 824 GMTSN after decommission gun school and became GMG 3.....live in Missouri, where my Dad retired in 1967,,,,still Norfolk is my home

[@RetiredSailor60]

Was stationed at Naval Station Norfolk, Little Creek Amphibious base, and Fleet Combat Training Center Atlantic Dam Neck Operations Specialist A School. USS Whidbey Island LSD 41 and USS Wasp LHD 1. I attended the memorial service for the USS Iowa in 1989

[@isabellasilva8458]

Haha currently on the Whidbey Island!

[@RetiredSailor60]

@@isabellasilva8458 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year shipmate. Was on WBI from 1993-96 OI Div. Made a UNITAS and Med cruise.

[@stenbak88]

Thank you for keeping us safe and letting us be at ease in our daily lives

[@retirednavy8720]

Spent a large part of my navy career in Norfolk. The day after I retired I left VA and don't intend to ever return there. Absolutely hated that place!

[@retirednavy8720]

@2020 ELECTION SNAPSHOTS I fully understand. Western part of the state is okay but anything east of the Blue Ridge is majorly screwed up.

[@willkeene661]

I got a call from the navy while I was watching this video

[@vivekkaushik9508]

Thankyou for the tour. I feel I can walk my way through now.

[@marksark1119]

I was stationed in Norfolk in 1976(TDY) and again in 1981-1983 aboard the USS L.Y. Spear AS-36 at pier 22. Now my neutral duty station, Naval Facility Cape Hatteras, my aforementioned ship, and my rate(SK) have all been decommissioned. I feel quite the relic compared to the 21st century Navy.🇺🇲👍✌

[@kevinhaywood1268]

It was good seeing my old ship again. USS John C Stennis CVN-74. Norfolk is where i saw her for the first time, Jan 1997. She was brand new and i was on her 1st two deployments, including the around the world cruise in 98 to San Diego. Shes back in Norfolk now getting her reactors refueled. Never was a peir 14 while i was there tho, it stopped at 12.

[@picklepee2771]

The reactors don't really take that long to refuel it's just that the ship gets a complete refurbishment from the keel up. Years of painting, grinding, welding, blasting, brazing etc.

[@francisbusa1074]

RE: Iowa memorial. The 16" projectiles did not explode. The powder bags containing the propellant exploded when the breach block was closed.

[@Mariner311]

Was a West Coast guy - but went to NAS Norfolk and Damn Neck in 1995 for ASWModule Analyst schools - a VERY nice area - in fact SO nice, I begged my detailer to change my orders to a LANTFLT Carrier. Oh well, I couldn't get them changed - then went on to Kitty Hawk, Lincoln, and Stennis for a back-to-back-to-back stretch in the Persian Gulf

[@jeffreyhill8040]

Looks like they mix all the ships together now. Destroyers and Submariines used to be a half-mile or so to the South, at the D&S Piers. Wonder why they named them that... My first ship was USS Puget Sound (AD-38). It was a repair ship and we stayed tied to the same pier for about nine months. Then, with a big two-day production, we moved one pier over for another bunch of months. Big excitement! Anyhow, sticks in my memory, arriving at Norfolk airport from the West Coast on an October night, and having a shuttle van drop me off with my seabag at the head of the pier. The Puget Sound was huge, and had that big "D38" all lit up in white numbers on the bow. After that, I served on DDG-5, and those piers were our Home Port. But we were only there for a week or two at a time, between deployments to the Med or on training missions in the Atlantic.

[@micahgotracksplays340]

I”ve been here with my cousin but I didn’t know all this! This is cool

[@michaelcipres4228]

Hey,Jay this is Mike, sorry I haven't replied in almost a year l apologize. I was stationed in Norfolk in September of 1969. The USS Mobile, LKA 115,was being built and I was on the nucleus crew as a Quartermaster. I was stationed in Sasebo, Japan before that. I was attached to the Mobile till December 1971.

[@steverayl3824]

I was a Marine onboard the Mobile. Out of the six different Gator Navy Ships, who's decks I walked, She was the best! Best chow, and since we stuck in the Indian Ocean during the Iranian hostage ordeal, they got Hank Williams Jr to a concert on Her!

[@vadimmelnikov7809]

Great little glimpse! Thank you for work and service Malachi Lakey. Can't wait to join the force.

[@mrmusiclover4178]

Nice video. I was stationed at NAS Norfolk from 1960-1962 and enjoyed my tour there.

[@michaelmitchell6629]

I hope to be able to come and visit sometime this yr.

[@sealy3]

AT~(3:56) you say: "The ammunition you see is the same size as the ammunition that exploded." Correction the Iowa's shells did not explode. It was the Powder charges that ignited while the breach of the gun was still open. The powder bags were being rammed into the breach.. It was a out of battery propellant detonation. Had the 16" shell exploded inside the gun tube there would have been far more casualties and possibly the loss of the ship."?"

[@Fyp21]

Thank you for the Virtual Tour of Norfolk Naval Station and Merry Christmas & Happy New Year From Denmark🙂👍

[@michaelch5060]

Spent the last 4 months of my NAVY Adventure in Norfolk, "No Dogs or Sailors Allowed"

[@TwitchArmy1YT]

Keep up the great work I really appreciate your service keep it up

[@user-pe1ns8bd6j]

They missed the gate traffic.

[@DreadnoughtHvor]

When that 0500 gate traffic hits and you're scrambling to be on board before colors

[@marylagua5079]

That’s a large Air Naval station. I was there last Sunday.

[@michaelmitchell6629]

Very very nice base .I was just sad I could not have toured. USS ford but navy security officer said I can not tour her due to not being on active duty..

[@geeftw69]

Godbless our nation 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@scottwagenknecht7954]

Seaman Lakey if I am correct it is NOB Norfolk my step father is USN Retired CPO that served aboard the USS JFK CV 67 and ben on both NOB Norfolk and Norfolk NAS. Plus I was in NJROTC in Norfolk and been on the base many times

[@WalterCruz-USA]

Number 1 USA.🇺🇸🦅 God bless América.🇺🇸🙏🏻

[@manssmilitary6215]

US NAVY 💪💪💪🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@WhoFlungPoo2024]

USN Norfolk 1965-69. ASW Tactical School at D&S Piers and lived on base until '67. While the base still looks the same, I cannot even recognize outside the gates anymore. But that's probably good.

[@B25gunship]

Went to Communication Yeoman (CYN) "A" school at NOB Norfolk in fall of 67. Came back in Jun 69 to serve at Cinclantflt down the road on Terminal Blvd. Wasn't crazy about the place but had a car and Virginia Beach wasn't too far away. Left (discharged) on Feb 28 1971 and let out a big whoopi as I drove north on the Bay Tunnel/Bridge headed home. Honeymooned with my wife in Virginia Beach in 73. Still married for 50 years.

[@EjNappe]

Pier 14 is my favorite.

[@joefennessy9984]

Well done. Thank you.

[@douglasdavis3603]

The navy does use the number thirteen. I served on the USS Nashville LPD 13.

[@scottwagenknecht7954]

There also is USS Hoel DDG 13

[@kentclark9908]

I love the jets that fly right over my house from this base

[@kentclark9908]

@The Sensitive Psycho i live just outside gate 22. It's not so bad except when I worked midnights some days I couldn't get any rest

[@7Heist7]

I was lucky enough to do a overnight stay at the base and a and tour a couple years ago with the Boy Scouts.

[@kaylorjjj]

I had no idea this was was so large. This video was very interesting and informative. Thanks for sharing.

[@williampulley5616]

Biggest in the world

[@noaholiver4063]

Hello

[@tgf2770]

Must be lovely this time of year!

[@charlesferebee263]

OUTSTANDING. ! ! ! 🇺🇸🙏

[@StretchKOS]

I can’t wait to goto Norfolk

[@michaelcipres4228]

I remember when l was there so well. My ship the USS mobile LKA was being built at the time in 68-69 when was assigned to her. We deployed to Vietnam around December of 69. The base has changed dramatically since the last time I was there.

[@michaelcipres4228]

@Jay Amburn ,Jay this is Mike, l can't remember your name

[@michaelcipres4228]

@@jayamburn1959 Jay jog my mind for a minute. Honestly I can't remember your name or place where we knew each other. Please forgive me but help me out! 😧 Thanks, Mike

[@alonsoland21]

Great video thank you

[@theunitedstatesofamerica4259]

A very cool Naval Station defending me from the seas! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸⚓️⚓️⚓️⚓️

[@michaelmitchell6629]

Never knew Norfolk had them memorials in The base perimeter

[@usmcbulldog]

Be nice if could have added the history of this station was also where U.S. Navy boot camp conducted back in WWII.

[@MarkM58]

The WWII bootcamp is long gone and covered. It was already gone when I was stationed there in the late '70s.

[@usmcbulldog]

@@MarkM58 I just meant be nice if included in this video since they touched on some history. I have two daughters in the navy and one is stationed at Norfolk. I’m a Marine myself.

[@donpaul9576]

I actually disliked my tour there. Got there in 1986-90 (85-90). While on the Med deployment in 89, came back to some improvements which was better facilities for Enlisted, they just built a Sport Club (which I am sure is closed) and a few better restaurants. Had to live in Nimitz Hall while PCU in 86 which was depressing'. Nothing to do there. Then they still had the "Blue Law" (everything is closed on Sundays), which was lifted in 89' so on Sundays there was NOTHING to do off base during that time. Was there when a huge fight broke out at the E Club ( Trade winds?) which made the news, I think that was 88 or 89 and remember a sailor being stupid and punching a female base police officer, he got pounced on and dragged away. Other than that, sadly the Air Force at the time had better things for their Enlisted. I think things have changed for Enlisted Navy (but I am sure they are still cry about it). Bet they got rid of the phone banks off of Pier 12 because everyone has cell phones today (phone banks, what is that? you had to pay money for making a call?). For anyone going in the U.S. Navy (or any branch that is), and are about 18-19, do minimum of 2 enlistments, you are young. I should have done shore duty outside of Norfolk, and may have liked it enough to make it a career. But I do look back on it and great times, seen half the world in the shortest amount of time. I know a Air Force puke (retired) and he's been to Missouri and California in 20 years, wow, I've been to 9 different countries. GO NAVY!

[@JRJunior8624]

Interesting, WHO did they day resides in those mansions at the beginning, while Enlisted men live where??

[@thomasdollard7971]

Why didn't you mention the USS Scorpion (SSN 589) memorial?

[@jxayvxiv]

Ah, I’m currently stationed here. I only have 4 months left and I’m done with the Military😩

[@NNOutBurger_Gaming]

How is the base? I'm getting stationed there

[@jxayvxiv]

@@NNOutBurger_Gaming Not that bad, it’s pretty big. There’s a 5 guys on base, Qdoba, Subway. There’s an ocean view (obviously lol) but within the rocks you’ll see Feral cats. Uhhhh, let’s see. If you leave base there’s a HUGE Nex. Depending on where you’re from, It’s okay, it’s Virginia. You gotta make the best out of it!

[@jxayvxiv]

@@NNOutBurger_Gaming are you going on a ship?

[@picklepee2771]

When the carriers are moored, they scramble the damn signal there for cellphone service.

[@Krawum1]

seen on tv a report about the hss ford that was a cool carrear and full in function well done

[@edwardbailey7911]

My home port from 1989 to 1996.

[@vabr61]

Nice video! Congrats from Rio de Janeiro, Brazi!!!.

[@Bobbytomface]

Awesome.

[@andrewhodges1322]

I threw up ALL deployment. My LPO wasn't even mad at me when I would pass out in the lounge from headaches lol. I never got any good sleep because I slept on the top rack right below the flight deck. We pulled into some sick ass ports though!

[@brianpederson2709]

Stationed aboard USS Saipan (LHA-2) 1980-1983 and never saw ANY of the memorials described and the only Air Mobility Commands I have ever seen were of the US Air Force.

[@fathiaadewusi]

I have been looking for something like this thank you so much. 😊

[@carlettagoodrich-mann1377]

The worlds largest Naval station NORFOLK VA. 21.000 employees. civil services supplying distribution for goods and services . My father was a nuclear submarine specialist .Navy command. GO Navy

[@-nixwite-]

NORFOLK IS THE BEST PLACE ON EARTH

[@ryanfitz2214]

Far from it lol

[@-nixwite-]

@@ryanfitz2214 well I can say Oceana is better

[@ryanfitz2214]

@@-nixwite- yes it is that’s where I’m at lol

[@-nixwite-]

@@ryanfitz2214 Nice! That is actually my favorite place ever

[@dogsense3773]

4 years at pearl harbor, that place got old fast

[@octavioesteban2108]

It’s a pleasure to watch such a feat. However I would like to ask if you could give my 86-year-old grandpa one last loop de loop.

[@DudetaketheBus]

Don’t go, it’s miserable

[@acrustykrab]

Maybe but long as you have wifi, food, and a gym how bad can it be. No jinx

[@DudetaketheBus]

@@acrustykrab I had all of them. I was there for about a month... A MONTH! The school wasn't bad, but TPU is miserable... all of the guys there made me dread waking every day. Galley cooks? Civilian security guards? All of them Miserable (can even see it in the food how miserable it is there). I met a few guys, that aren't miserable, but lemme tell you... it's few and far between. Nobody likes a joke, the place is gloomy daily, the list goes on. Currently in NBSD 32nd st., the difference is night and day, even in TPU. The weather is great, E-7 and above aren't trying to fuck you at every turn (unlike ahem... Norfolk). Long story short, ik guys just out of BC don't have the option to not go here, but if you do... avoid it the plague.

[@acrustykrab]

@@DudetaketheBus dang that sucks! I'm going to the Harry S Truman after C school, hope the command is alright then...will have to find someway to stay positive I guess

[@DudetaketheBus]

@@acrustykrab it's not all bad, ik it kind of sounded like that. It's honestly just the people on base. Venture far from base, get a house or rental where military people aren't at, you'll make it worth something. I stayed at Portsmouth NGIS, there's nothing to do there. Only place worth being at is Norfolk itself, Suffolk County (away from military people), and VA beach... but since it's winter rn, not much is gonna be open. Honestly, it is what you make it. I had a miserable time, and I wouldn't recommend to anyone, but I met a few people who actually like it there. Bought houses off base, plan to retire there, constantly pick orders to go back there... etc... depends on your likes. Like, I know someone who hates SD with a burning passion, while I love it... then again I come from Japan where West Coast Navy is def the better coast. All in all, do you can to make it enjoyable. It is a nice springboard for say vacationing in the Caribbean, or even Europe if you got the money.

[@NewHaven203]

a crusty krab that’s hilarious you think there’s wifi here lmfao!!!!

[@ws8061]

At 0:10 seconds was Holiday stand down 2012. The Bush and Iketraz are on 12 and 14.

[@charlescasey9799]

I remember East Main Street and granny and the ship ahoy bar. A while ago in Norfolk

[@frankmcgee3213]

Scorpion memorial ?

[@Brassman-ur3ho]

As far as I’ve researched the USS Scorpion memorial isn’t at Norfolk Naval Station. That’s probably why it wasn’t mentioned in the video.

[@kosrules1884]

I got to go to Norfolk my freshman year at high School part of the JROTC program at my school and got the tour that Theodore Roosevelt it was so cool

[@scottwagenknecht7954]

That sounds cool I was in NJROTC in Norfolk plus my dad was a CPO and my instructor was a Capt aboard the JFK so I been on a few ships at that base and also Little Creek

[@tagcoffee4930]

Did the tour in front of the piers four weeks ago I am X NZ Navy

[@havefaith96]

Wonderful video! Thank you!

[@alicejcarlisle4159]

Good morning, Has Garrett been shipped to Norfolk? That Navel Base is huge, huh? What kind of Colgne does CC like?

[@cameronash5492]

This is so cool I have 2 years before I'm 18 then I'm gonna join.

[@squidusn71]

What do you hope to accomplish when you're in the Navy.

[@cameronash5492]

@@squidusn71 Getting there in the first place lol

[@blnmadisonbm]

OUTSTANDING!⚓☠🇺🇲

[@gerbermrsa]

thank you, very interesting.

[@unlisted8042]

Good video

[@Thedesertguy75]

Oh no.....I was so happy to get out of there... lol.

[@NewHaven203]

Don’t miss the drivers!

[@terrelmchenry9524]

THE PLACE LOOKS SO DIFFERENT AFTER 40 YEARS. 3MMR M DIV. THE PLACE LOOKS GREAT.

[@PaulSmith-pz9eq]

I was stationed in Little Creek . Is this the big Portsmouth naval Station ? My memory I suppose. I was there in 72-75 .

[@No-le9qf]

No this is the one right on the James river entrance

[@jcirvine38]

I was there on USNS Laramie TAO 203, and USS Kearsarge LHD 3

[@pendragontv945]

Let’s go

[@usnvfa103]

I've been there and NAS oceana some year ago. I made a tour out of the base on a boat. It was my first time i saw a carrier.... Is it possible to visit the abse also inside? How to go on a carrier for photos? Thanks Navy Go Navy. Regards

[@Real_Backwoodz_Logan]

Aye still here 🥶deployment coming up ✌🏻

[@logans5891]

just graduated A school boutta head here now

[@navvet4518]

Spent 4 years at D&S pier 24. I think they renumbered them at some point.

[@joshuawaldron8338]

Ayyyy I’m stationed here

[@suzannelebizarre5705]

Been years since I was a sailor there. as a DD sailor...

[@LanNguyen-xl1wg]

❤

[@SARISS80]

I would love to visit

[@유희석-j6u]

Too close to peg all ships. It is close to DC Washington. Delaware, Maine,and Boston are good. Geologically shortage,good personnel recruit, fishery ground,laboratory, training school,and networking services.

[@mr.v8194]

Cool what about security.this is a open source of knowledge of the base to ???

[@vindin5]

HOO FUCKING YAH!!!!!!!!!!! DECK LEADS THE WAY💪💪💪🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@CRAZYHORSE19682003]

How often are the piers replaced? I was stationed there in the late 80's, on the USS Iowa BB61. I wonder if the same piers are still there.

[@jaywill1446]

Who approved this? Why would they layout the base like that? 🙄🙄🙄 just fueling the adversary.

[@skysox]

So much for OPSEC.

[@loryestrada5989]

Waiting to go my son is in the navy now

[@John-r8h3k]

This is where I lived for 6 years

[@donaldmarusak6501]

Stationed there 71-73 on USS SEATTLE AOE-3.

[@SlashinatorZ]

Is this the real life Marineford?

[@patrickwelsh4782]

I was stationed there 83 94

[@Real_Backwoodz_Logan]

Home sweet home u can see my ship ✌🏻✌🏻