Philippine Navy - Naval Sea Systems Command
Philippine Navy - Naval Sea Systems Command
Philippine Navy - Naval Sea Systems Command
The NSSC now stands as the biggest industrial complex of the AFP, lo
at Ft. San Felipe in Cavite City with responsibilities for the operation a
maintenance of shipyards, command and control system, combat syst
research and development of technology for the Navy.
The NAVRESCOM was preceded by the Home Defense Command which was
deactivated because it was deemed too expensive to maintain. Its subordinate
units were absorbed by other major units. The need for naval manpower
development however still remained.
NAVRESCOM is now a special unit of the Navy tasked to organize train, equip
and administer the Naval reservists in order to have a base for expansion of the
regular force in the event of war, invasion, rebellion or disasters and calamities.
The NAVRESCOM base is now headquartered at Fort Santiago in Manila.
While NAVRESCOM is a relatively young unit, it has proven its efficiency in
fulfilling its mission of providing administrative support to reservists nationwide
and their effective utilization in time of peace and war and to assist in the socio-
economic programs of the government.
The Naval Education and Training Command, now based in San Antonio
Zambales, traces its roots back to the Off-Shore Patrol School founded by the
late Commodore Jose V. Andrada. The Off-Shore Patrol School produced many
graduates who would later become FOICs of the Navy.
After the war, the OSP School made its home in Malacañang. In 1946, the
school was transferred to the Cavite Naval Base. It later became the Naval
Training Command right before its present incarnation.
BNS replicates the functions of Naval Base Cavite for Philippine Navy units
located in Fort Bonifacio in Makati City.