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Naval Station Ingleside is located on the northern shore of Corpus Christi Bay in the region of South Texas known as the Coastal Bend. The Naval Station is ideally situated astride the Corpus Christi ship channel, a deep-water artery that links the port of Corpus Christi with the Gulf of Mexico.

The Navy consolidated the operations, training and maintenance of its surface mine warfare force at Ingleside, the Navy-designated “Mine Warfare Center of Excellence.”

The Naval Station provides logistics, base support and force protection to all the tenant commands that make up the Mine Warfare forces. About 2,300 military, civilian, and contract employees support three Mine Countermeasures Squadrons and the Mine Warfare ships that deploy worldwide.

The Station’s history began with a groundbreaking ceremony. On September 4, 1990, the first Naval Station employees moved from temporary office spaces off-Station into the Public Works Building. On the 29th of that month, a ribbon cutting was held to mark the unofficial “opening” of the waterfront announcing that Naval Station Ingleside was ready to berth ships. The first ship to arrive on Station was USS SCOUT (MCM 8) on June 25. And on July 6, 1992, Naval Station Ingleside was officially dedicated.

In May 2005, the Department of Defense recommended Naval Station Ingleside be closed with its ships and dedicated personnel, equipment and support to move to Naval Station San Diego, Calif. DoD also recommended: consolidation of Mine Warfare Training Center with Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center San Diego; realignment of Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas; relocation of Commander, Mine Warfare Command, and Commander, Mobile Mine Assembly Group to Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Center, Point Loma, Calif.; relocation of Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 15 and dedicated personnel, equipment and support to Naval Station Norfolk, Va.; disestablishment of Commander, Helicopter Tactical Wing, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Aviation Intermediate Maintenance Detachment Truax Field at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi; and relocation of its intermediate maintenance function for aircraft components, fabrication and manufacturing, and support equipment to Fleet Readiness Center Mid-Atlantic Site Norfolk, Va.

The Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission agreed with this recommendation. The President approved the recommendations on Sept. 15, 2005. The recommendation would move mine warfare surface and aviation assets to major fleet concentration areas and reduce excess capacity. Relocation of Commander, Mine Warfare Command, and the Mine Warfare Training Center to San Diego, creates a center of excellence for Undersea Warfare, combining both mine warfare and anti-submarine warfare disciplines. This reorganization removes the Mine Warfare community from a location remote from the fleet, thereby better supporting the shift to organic mine warfare. The recommendation became law November 9, 2005. Naval Station Ingleside and tenant commands are in the process of planning for the base’s closure and transfer of assets that will move. The base’s anticipated closure date is September 30, 2010.

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