Editing Naval Base San Diego (section)

==Operations==
[[File:190417-MJ716-196.jpg|alt=|thumb|Navy Security Forces respond to a simulated attack during a force protection exercise on Naval Base San Diego.]]
Naval Base San Diego is home port to approximately 54 ships, including 46 U.S. Navy ships, two [[Littoral]] Combat Ships, two [[U.S. Coast Guard]] cutters, and eight ships of the [[Military Sealift Command]], as well as research and auxiliary vessels.

Ashore, the base has approximately 150 separate tenant commands and other Navy support facilities,<ref name="about"/> each having specific and specialized fleet support missions. The base is a workplace for approximately 26,000 military, civilian, and contract personnel. Additionally, the base has rooms to house more than 4,000 men and women in modern apartment-like [[barracks]], including new state-of-the-art residential towers.

Support services on base includes less direct and indirect fleet support: waterfront operations, [[force protection]] (security), supply, [[Navy Exchange]] and [[Commissary]] shopping centers, bachelor quarters, food services, public affairs, administration, transient personnel administration, fiscal management, equal employment opportunity, civil engineering, family services, recreation on the base and near various military family housing areas, medical and dental care, religious services, transportation, utilities, legal support, counseling and assistance, facility [[Maintenance, repair and operations|maintenance]], fire protection, educational services, and child care for more than 300 children daily at the base Child Development Center.

The base has a plant value of $4.5 billion.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cnic.navy.mil/Regions/cnrsw/installations/navbase_san_diego/about/history/ |title=History |date=2021|publisher=Commander, Navy Region Southwest |access-date=June 7, 2021}}</ref> 

An explosion and fire on the [[USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6)]] on July 12, 2020 resulted in the eventual decommissioning and scrapping of the ship.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://news.usni.org/2021/04/15/former-uss-bonhomme-richard-towed-from-san-diego-ahead-of-scrapping |title=Former USS Bonhomme Richard Towed from San Diego Ahead of Scrapping |date=April 15, 2021 |publisher=USNI News |access-date=June 7, 2021}}</ref>