efforts on Diego Garcia and said, "With the departure
The Commanders in Chief of the Atlantic and
of NMCB 62 from Diego Garcia on July 14, 1982, we
Pacific Fleets are charged with ensuring that NMCB
closed another illustrious chapter in our Seabee
deployments and assigned projects follow CNO
history."
policies. They exercise command or operational and
administrative control of the units of the NCF
assigned to their command. Command or operational
control is the authority to assign tasks, to designate
UNITS OF THE NAVAL
objectives, to give any specific directions necessary
CONSTRUCTION FORCE
to accomplish the mission, and by a specified date,
when required. Command control and operational
The Naval Construction Force (NCF) consists of
control go together; if you have one, you
commissioned units of the Navy operating forces that
automatically have the other.
are under the control of the Chief of Naval Operations
(CNO), as shown in figures 1-2 and 1-3. The CNO
Under the Commanders in Chief of the Fleets,
commissions naval construction force units, assigns
various Type Commanders command all the ships or
them to the fleet, and approves their deployment. He
units of a certain type; for example, all surface units of
also defines the general mission, approves personnel
the Pacific Fleet (COMNAVSURFPAC); the
allowance lists, establishes detachment sites, and
commander of the submarine forces in the Atlantic Fleet
approves the NMCB table of allowance (TOA), except
is COMSUBLANT.
for small arms, weapons, and landing party equipment
Commander, Second Naval Construction Brigade
allowances, which are approved by the Chief of Naval
Material.
(Norfolk) and Commander, Third Naval Construction
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