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{{Short description|Military installation in Washington, US}}
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'''Naval Station Everett''' (NAVSTA Everett) is a military installation located in the city of [[Everett, Washington]], {{convert|25|mi|km}} north of [[Seattle]]. The [[naval station]], located on the city's waterfront on the northeastern end of [[Puget Sound]], was designed as a homeport for a US Navy [[carrier strike group]] and opened in 1994. A separate Navy Support Complex is located in [[Smokey Point, Washington|Smokey Point]], {{convert|11|mi|km}} north of Everett near [[Marysville, Washington|Marysville]], and houses a [[commissary]], [[Navy Exchange]], a college and other services.

NAVSTA Everett is home to seven [[Arleigh Burke-class destroyer|guided-missile destroyer]]s, a [[United States Coast Guard|Coast Guard]] [[Keeper-class cutter]] {{USCGC|Henry Blake|WLM-563|6}}, and a USCG [[Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boat|Marine Protector-class]] patrol boat, {{USCGC|Blue Shark|WPB-87360|6}}.  There are about 6,000 sailors and civil service persons assigned to commands located at Naval Station Everett. The Naval Station itself has about 350 sailors and civilians assigned.

==History==
===Background===

Although a Naval Reservation existed previously at the site, the history of Naval Station Everett began in 1983 when [[Secretary of the Navy]] [[John Lehman]] first proposed a new [[Puget Sound]]-area naval base as part of the [[Strategic Homeport]] concept.<ref>{{cite news |last=Katz |first=Dean |date=November 4, 1983 |title=Secretary of Navy campaigns for base |page=B1 |work=[[The Seattle Times]]}}</ref> In the early 1980s, [[United States Congress|Congress]] approved the strategic homeporting initiative to build additional bases and disperse the fleet from the main concentration areas. The strategic homeport program enjoyed the support of not only of the House and Senate but of the [[Reagan Administration]] and the [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]]. It was decided in 1985 that the strategic homeport program was the best method for implementing the militarily-sound principles of dispersal, battlegroup integrity, and increasing the naval presence in the geographic flanks.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}

===Planning and construction===
On April 17, 1984, Everett was selected from among 13 ports as the ideal location for the new homeport, ahead of a site near the [[Port of Seattle]].<ref>{{cite news |last=McDonough |first=Sandra |date=April 18, 1984 |title=Navy news was bad and good for Seattle |page=A7 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref> The decision to build the base in Everett was opposed by local residents and the longshoreman's union, and an advisory [[ballot measure]] on whether to accept the base was held in the city on November 6, 1984. Voters approved the construction of the naval base by a margin of more than 2 to 1.<ref>{{cite news |last=Cowley |first=Geoffrey |date=November 7, 1984 |title=Everett says 'yes' to Navy by a margin of more than 2-to-1 |page=B10 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref> Congress approved $43.5 million in funds for construction of the homeport on October 2, 1986,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pryne |first1=Eric |last2=Brown |first2=Charles E. |date=October 3, 1986 |title=Congressmen praise navy-base deal |page=B2 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref> amid the removal of the homeport program from the federal budget and increases in the base's estimated cost.<ref>{{cite news |last=Nelson |first=Robert T. |date=July 20, 1986 |title=Is Everett base dead? |page=D2 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref>

The Port of Everett Commission approved the sale of {{convert|143|acres}} to build the base on May 5, 1987,<ref>{{cite web |last=Riddle |first=Margaret |date=July 29, 2011 |title=Port of Everett Commissioners approve the sale of land to the U.S. Navy for an aircraft carrier base on May 5, 1987. |url=http://www.historylink.org/File/9889 |work=[[HistoryLink]] |access-date=January 25, 2017}}</ref> and the official ground breaking ceremony was November 9, 1987.<ref>{{cite news |last=Shaw |first=Linda |date=November 10, 1987 |title=Ground broken for navy port; injunction hangs over future work |page=G3 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref> Despite the groundbreaking, the Navy was unable to secure [[dredging]] permits until the following week due to opposition from environmentalist groups, who unsuccessfully appealed in court to halt construction.<ref>{{cite news |last=Shaw |first=Linda |date=November 11, 1987 |title=Everett navy base goes on, court rules |page=H1 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref> On September 9, 1988, the Navy awarded the $56 million construction contract for the carrier pier, which is {{convert|1,620|ft|m}} long and {{convert|120|ft|m}} wide.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}} On June 4, 1992, three Navy ships participated in the formal opening of the new $56.4 million pier.<ref>{{cite news |last=Brooks |first=Diane |date=June 5, 1992 |title=The Navy's in port: three ships greeted at Everett's new base |page=E1 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref>

On June 26, 1993, the [[1993 Base Realignment and Closure Commission|Base Realignment and Closure Commission]] voted unanimously to retain the planned Everett homeport and close the [[Naval Air Station Alameda]] in California.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nelson |first1=Robert T. |last2=Brooks |first2=Diane |last3=Bergsman |first3=Jerry |date=June 26, 1993 |title=Everett's Navy home port wins unanimous vote |page=A1 |work=The Seattle Times |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19930626/1708308/everetts-navy-home-port-wins-unanimous-vote |access-date=January 25, 2017}}</ref> In January 1994, [[Naval Station Puget Sound]] personnel began transitioning to the new Fleet Support and Administration buildings and officially began operations at Naval Station Everett.<ref>{{cite news |last=Brooks |first=Diane |date=January 11, 1994 |title=Ships assigned to home port |page=B2 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref> On April 8, 1994, an official dedication ceremony was conducted with over 1,500 guests in attendance.<ref>{{cite news |last=Brooks |first=Diane |date=April 8, 1994 |title=Naval Station Everett: Celebration time at home port |page=A1 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Brooks |first=Diane |date=April 9, 1994 |title=Everett home port dedicated with thanks to 'Scoop' |page=A8 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref>

===Ship assignments===

On September 3, 1994, {{USS|Ingraham|FFG-61|6}} and {{USS|Ford|FFG-54|2}} arrived as the first of seven ships to be assigned here, welcomed by a celebration from the city.<ref>{{cite news |last=Beers |first=Carole |date=September 4, 1994 |title=Wet but warm welcome for the Navy |page=B1 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref> On November 22, 1995, {{USS|Paul F. Foster|DD-964|2}} arrived at the naval station. On that same date, the Navy officially announced the assignment of {{USS|David R. Ray|DD-971|2}}, {{USS|Callaghan|DDG-994|2}}, and {{USS|Chandler|DDG-996|2}} to Naval Station Everett.<ref name="Ingraham">{{cite web |title=Naval Station Everett |url=http://www.ingraham.navy.mil/navaleverett.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080710003128/http://www.ingraham.navy.mil/navaleverett.htm |archive-date=July 10, 2008 |publisher=[[United States Pacific Fleet]] |access-date=January 25, 2017}}</ref> ''David R. Ray'' arrived July 29, 1996,<ref>{{cite news |last=Brooks |first=Diane |date=July 30, 1996 |title=Beautiful blue skies greet ship: Home port's latest arrival welcomed |page=B1 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref> and ''Callaghan'' and ''Chandler'' both arrived September 27, 1996.<ref>{{cite news |date=September 28, 1996 |title=2 destroyers dock in Everett |page=A5 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref> To complete the complement of ships at Naval Station Everett, {{USS|Abraham Lincoln|CVN-72|6}} made a change of homeport from [[Puget Sound Naval Shipyard]] at [[Bremerton, Washington|Bremerton]] to Everett on January 8, 1997.<ref>{{cite news |last=Clutter |first=Stephen |date=January 9, 1997 |title=Bringing home the future: The Lincoln, with crew of 3,200 is first carrier permanently assigned to Everett |page=B1 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref> {{USS|Fife|DD-991|2}} and {{USS|Rodney M. Davis|FFG-60|2}} made their official change of homeport from Japan to Everett on May 5, 1998.<ref>{{cite news |last=Clarridge |first=Christine |date=May 6, 1998 |title=Home sweet home port for two ships at Everett |page=B1 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref> ''Callaghan'' was decommissioned on March 31, 1998,<ref>{{cite news |date=March 30, 1998 |title=Destroyer USS Callaghan to be decommissioned, towed to PSNS |url=http://web.kitsapsun.com/archive/1998/03-30/0004_everett__destroyer_uss_callaghan_.html |work=[[Kitsap Sun]] |access-date=January 25, 2017}}</ref> followed by the ''Chandler'' on September 23, 1999.<ref>{{cite news |date=September 22, 1999 |title=Navy destroyer is set for decommissioning |page=B2 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref>

In July 1999 the Navy completed a Final [[Environmental Impact Statement]] (EIS) designed to determine the appropriate homeports for three [[Nimitz-class aircraft carrier|''Nimitz''-class]] nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in the [[United States Pacific Fleet|Pacific Fleet]]. The EIS examined four locations: Bremerton, Everett, [[San Diego]], and [[Pearl Harbor]]. The Navy's decision was to develop facilities to homeport two ''Nimitz''-class carriers at [[Naval Air Station North Island]], [[California]] in addition to {{USS|John C. Stennis|CVN-74|2}}, and to maintain Everett as a homeport for one ''Nimitz''-class aircraft carrier.<ref name="Ingraham"/> The successful completion of ''Abraham Lincoln''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s six-month maintenance period at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, validated the Navy's preference to keep a carrier homeported in Everett. The in-depth EIS process began in December 1996. Following public scoping meetings held in communities at each of the four alternate locations in February 1997, the Navy spent more than 18 months examining the ports to determine how well they satisfied the CVN Homeporting Objectives and Requirements as they pertain to Operations and Training; Facilities and Infrastructure; Maintenance; and Quality of Life.<ref name="Ingraham"/>

In June 2021, the Navy announced that Naval Station Everett would be the future home of the first 12 [[Constellation-class frigate|''Constellation''-class]] frigates.<ref name="Correll">{{cite web |last1=Correll |first1=Diana |title=Naval Station Everett selected as homeport for Constellation-class frigates |url=https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2021/06/03/naval-station-everett-selected-as-homeport-for-constellation-class-frigates/ |website=NavyTimes.com |date=3 June 2021 |publisher=Navy Times |access-date=9 November 2021}}</ref> The Navy is expected to take delivery of the first ship, {{USS|Constellation|FFG-62|6}}, sometime in 2026.

===Other events===

On September 15, 2000, two vessels from the [[Chinese Navy]] (''Qingdao'' and ''Taicang'') began a three-day visit to Naval Station Everett as part of a cultural exchange and goodwill tour for Chinese sailors. The visit was the second by a Chinese Navy vessel to the United States, following a similar goodwill program in San Diego in 1997.<ref>{{cite news |last=Fisher |first=David |date=September 16, 2000 |title=A goodwill mission from China makes a little history in Northwest |page=B1 |work=[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]}}</ref>

==Facilities==

===Naval Support Complex===

The Naval Support Complex is located in [[Smokey Point, Washington|Smokey Point]], approximately {{convert|11|mi|km}} north of Everett, and houses the base's support facilities.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Naval Station Everett |url=https://www.cnic.navy.mil/Regions/cnrnw/installations/ns_everett/about/ |publisher=[[Commander, Navy Installations Command]] |access-date=January 25, 2017}}</ref> The complex includes a [[Defense Commissary Agency|commissary]], [[Navy Exchange]] store, gas station, family service center, thrift shop, education offices, [[Barracks|Bachelor Officer Quarters]], craft shop/gear issue, chapel and religious education center, an auto hobby shop, ball fields and courts, fleet parking for personnel assigned to deployed Everett-based ships and a 50-room Navy Lodge.<ref name="Ingraham"/><ref>{{cite web |date=February 18, 2011 |title=Military Installations Booklet for Naval Station Everett |page=42 |url=http://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/ccsg11/Documents/NAVAL%20STATION%20EVERETT%20INSTALLATION%20BOOKLET%20AND%20POINTS%20OF%20CONTACT.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151020124419/http://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/ccsg11/Documents/NAVAL%20STATION%20EVERETT%20INSTALLATION%20BOOKLET%20AND%20POINTS%20OF%20CONTACT.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 20, 2015 |publisher=U.S. Navy |access-date=January 25, 2017}}</ref> The campus was designed to look "more like a [[community college]] campus" than traditional military facilities and serves more than 30,000 personnel and families in Western Washington.<ref>{{cite news |last=Whitely |first=Peyton |date=January 8, 2003 |title='Our basic policy is to give the sailor a good deal': The Navy Support Complex sells cheap goods and food, and provides all sorts of aid |page=H22 |work=The Seattle Times |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20030108/navy08n/our-basic-policy-is-to-give-the-sailor-a-good-deal |access-date=January 25, 2017}}</ref>[[File:Naval Station Everett from Grand Avenue Park, 2021b.jpg|thumb|Naval Station Everett viewed from the east|left]]

The Navy originally proposed housing the support complex in downtown Everett in high-rise structures by 1992,<ref>{{cite news |last=Lobos |first=Ignacio |date=September 29, 1989 |title=Home-port facilities may end up in downtown Everett |page=B3 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref> but dropped the site after being unable to find {{convert|40|acre}} of suitable real estate. A site on the [[Tulalip Indian Reservation]] near [[Marysville, Washington|Marysville]] was chosen in 1990, but was shelved after the Navy rejected the terms of the 75-year lease with the Tulalip Tribes.<ref>{{cite news |last=Fitten |first=Ronald K. |date=April 7, 1992 |title=Tulalip Tribes reject Navy offer for land |page=B1 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref> A new {{convert|52|acre|adj=mid}} site in Smokey Point was chosen in late 1992,<ref>{{cite news |last=Brooks |first=Diane |date=November 11, 1992 |title=Navy opts out of Tulalip deal; support complex to be at Smokey Point |page=D1 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref> and construction of the $90 million project began on August 30, 1993.<ref>{{cite news |last=Brooks |first=Diane |date=July 6, 1993 |title=Work to start soon at Smokey Point; value for land for home-port support complex remains unsettled |page=B1 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Brooks |first=Diane |date=August 24, 1993 |title=Groundbreaking for support facility |page=B2 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref> The commissary and Navy Exchange opened on June 6, 1995, replacing similar facilities at [[Naval Air Station Sand Point]] in Seattle, while the rest of the complex opened later that year.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hendricks |first=Tyche |date=June 5, 1995 |title=Eagerly awaiting stores' opening—Navy exchange, commissary ready |page=B1 |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19950605/2124724/eagerly-awaiting-stores-opening |work=The Seattle Times |access-date=January 25, 2017}}</ref>

In 2012, the $33 million Marysville Armed Forces Reserve Center opened at a site south of the Naval Support Complex. The facility houses 250 soldiers from the 364th Expeditionary Sustainment Command of the [[U.S. Army Reserve]], who moved from Seattle's [[Fort Lawton]], and 300 members of the [[Washington Army National Guard]]; the facility is designed to support a total of 1,200 military members. It also includes a {{convert|147,000|sqft|sqm|adj=mid}} training center and services for members of the military and their families.<ref>{{cite news |last=Daybert |first=Amy |date=April 1, 2012 |title=Army commissions new training center in Marysville |url=http://www.heraldnet.com/news/army-commissions-new-training-center-in-marysville/ |work=The Everett Herald |access-date=January 30, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release |last=Harvie |first=Ruth |date=April 1, 2012 |title=Marysville Armed Forces Reserve Center opens |url=https://www.dvidshub.net/news/86195/marysville-armed-forces-reserve-center-opens |publisher=[[Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System]] |access-date=January 30, 2017}}</ref>

==Homeported ships==
[[File:Everyday heroes tasked with extraordinary duties 150722-G-AV652-277.jpg|right|250px|thumb|PSU 313 members during a training exercise 2015]]
===Aircraft carriers===

There are currently no aircraft carriers homeported at Naval Station Everett due to the reassignment of {{USS|Nimitz}} to [[Naval Base Kitsap]] in January 2015.<ref>{{cite news |last=Friedrich |first=Ed |date=December 22, 2015 |title=Nimitz staying in Bremerton |url=http://archive.kitsapsun.com/news/local/nimitz-permanently-staying-in-bremerton-276ce75f-d4b6-6653-e053-0100007f6734-363278471.html |work=Kitsap Sun |access-date=January 13, 2017}}</ref> The carrier was planned to return to Everett in 2019, but the Navy announced in late 2018 that it would remain at Kitsap.<ref>{{cite news |last=Haglund |first=Noah |date=September 28, 2018 |title=There will be no Everett homecoming for the USS Nimitz |url=https://www.heraldnet.com/news/there-will-be-no-everett-homecoming-for-the-uss-nimitz/ |work=The Everett Herald |access-date=March 11, 2019}}</ref> The {{USS|Abraham Lincoln|CVN-72|6}} was formerly homeported at Everett from 1994 to 2011, when it moved to [[Naval Station Norfolk]] in Virginia.<ref>{{cite news |last=Fiege |first=Gale |date=November 18, 2011 |title=USS Abraham Lincoln, long the pride of Everett, will soon be gone for good |url=https://www.heraldnet.com/news/uss-abraham-lincoln-long-the-pride-of-everett-will-soon-be-gone-for-good/ |work=The Everett Herald |access-date=March 11, 2019}}</ref>

===Guided missile frigates===
First 12 [[Constellation-class frigate|''Constellation''-class]] frigates to be homeported at Everett beginning after first delivery in 2026.<ref name="Correll"/>

===Guided missile destroyers (6)===
*{{USS|Barry|DDG-52}}
*{{USS|John Paul Jones|DDG-53}}
*{{USS|John S. McCain| DDG-56}}
*{{USS|Kidd|DDG-100}}
*{{USS|Gridley|DDG-101}}
*{{USS|Sampson|DDG-102}}

===Coast Guard Units (3)===
*[[USCGC Henry Blake (WLM-563)|USCGC ''Henry Blake'' (WLM-563)]]
*[[USCGC Blue Shark (WPB-87360)|USCGC ''Blue Shark'' (WPB-87360)]]
*[[Port Security Unit]] 313

==References==
* {{USNAVY |article=Naval Station |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080710003128/http://www.ingraham.navy.mil/navaleverett.htm}}

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==External links==
* [https://www.dodlodging.com/ DoD Lodging Worldwide] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128111754/https://www.dodlodging.com/ |date=2022-01-28 }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070824105915/http://www.cnic.navy.mil/Everett/index.htm NS Everett official website]
* [http://www.navy-lodge.com  US Navy Lodge]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131102121212/http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=77395 USS Ford (FFG 54) Decommissioning]
* [https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19940830/1927980/naval-station-everett----frosting-on-the-cake-for-a-city-in-renaissance----first-navy-ships-arrive-at-their-new-home-port-on-saturday Timeline of events, 1984 to 1994] via ''[[The Seattle Times]]''

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