United States Navy Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Foreign countries=== The largest overseas base is the [[United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka]], Japan, which serves as the home port for the navy's largest forward-deployed fleet and is a significant base of operations in the Western Pacific.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}} European operations revolve around facilities in Italy ([[Naval Air Station Sigonella|NAS Sigonella]] and [[Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station Naples, Italy|Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station Naples]]) with [[Naval Support Activity Naples|NSA Naples]] as the homeport for the Sixth Fleet and Command Naval Region Europe, Africa, Southwest Asia (CNREURAFSWA), and additional facilities in nearby [[Gaeta]]. There is also [[Naval Station Rota, Spain|NS Rota]] in Spain and [[Crete Naval Base|NSA Souda Bay]] in Greece. In the Middle East, naval facilities are located almost exclusively in countries bordering the [[Persian Gulf]], with [[Naval Support Activity Bahrain|NSA Bahrain]] serving as the headquarters of [[U.S. Naval Forces Central Command]] and [[U.S. Fifth Fleet]]. [[Guantanamo Bay Naval Base|NS Guantanamo Bay]] in Cuba is the oldest overseas facility and has become known in recent years as the location of a [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp|detention camp]] for suspected [[al-Qaeda]] operatives.<ref name="ForeignFacilities">{{cite web|url=http://militarybases.com/navy/ |title=Naval facilities outside the US |publisher=United States Navy |access-date=20 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518160349/http://militarybases.com/navy/ |archive-date=18 May 2015}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page