Welcome to Dam Neck Fleet Combat Training Center

You can access the Dam Neck Fleet Combat Training Center site directly by typing http://www.pcsdamneck.net.

Installation Info: Zip Code: 23461, Area Code: 757, DSN: 492

Dam Neck Fleet Combat Training Center Atlantic Fleet (FCTCLANT) is the Navy's only open-ocean, live-fire training facility. Founded in 1941 as an anti-aircraft range, the name of Dam Neck has been around since 1881, when it was given to a life-saving station. During WWII, the Navy purchased the little station from the Coast Guard, which used it as a signal station. In April 1942, the former Norfolk Anti-Aircraft Range was commissioned as the Anti-Aircraft Training and Test Center. By the end of WWII, the station's fate was uncertain. All the other anti-aircraft ranges in the U.S. had been closed. The base survived the threat of a closure in the late 1940s.

Dam Neck's largest course of instruction is Operations Specialist "A" school. It is 14 weeks of intense instruction and training.

Facilities on the base include medical and dental clinics (active duty only). Children residing on the base attend local schools off base. Only five miles from Virginia Beach, Dam Neck possesses 3.2 miles of Virginia's best waterfront property. Recreational activities provided on base include bowling, tennis, racquetball, pool, hunting, jogging trail and campgrounds. Recreation options off base include Virginia Beach's seven major city parks, five community recreation parks and 161 neighborhood parks. There are also three federal wildlife refuges.

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	Enormous Earl closing in on East Coast Sep 02 - Massive Hurricane Earl is moving close to the U.S. East Coast. Hurricane warnings and watches now extend from North Carolina to Massachusetts.
	Mideast peace talks start Sep 02 - Direct peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians will start Thursday as President Barack Obama urged both sides to come up with a peaceful solution to the long running Mideast conflict.
	Death toll tops 30 in Lahore blasts Sep 02 - The death toll from a trio of suicide attacks during a Shiite processions in Lahore, Pakistan, grows to 31, authorities say.
	Discovery Channel 'all clear' after sweep Sep 02 - Authorities gave an "all clear" early Thursday after sweeping the headquarters of the Discovery Channel in Silver Spring, Maryland, where police shot and killed a man who was holding three hostages.
	3 babies found buried at Dutch home Sep 02 - Dutch investigators were trying to determine Thursday whether the bodies of three babies found at a home in the Netherlands belong to the woman who lived there.