- Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support Group (United States)
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Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support Group 
COMNAVELSG SealActive 1993 - present Allegiance 
United States of AmericaBranch 
United States NavyType Navy Expeditionary Force Role Rapid response ground logistics Size 3,100 Garrison/HQ Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, Cheatham Annex Motto "Anytime, Anywhere" Commanders Rear Admiral Patricia E. Wolfe, SC, USN The Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support Group (NAVELSG) is a reserve command in the United States Navy and part of the Naval Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC).
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Purpose
The mission of NAVELSG is to deliver expeditionary logistics capabilities with mobilization-ready Navy Reserve Force Sailors and equipment to combatant commanders in support of the national military strategy. NAVELSG provides a wide range of supply and transportation functions critical for peacekeeping, crisis response, humanitarian, and combat service support missions.
NAVELSG Supply supports operations of the staff, establishes policy, and provides funding to units, as well as supporting the mobilization, training and outfitting of 1,200 reserve and active duty personnel annually. Challenges faced by the supply department involve berthing and outfitting personnel.
Though NAVELSG is part of the United States Navy Reserve, it includes both active duty and reserve components. NAVELSG commands can be deployed all over the United States and with any branch of the US Armed Services. Due to their focus on rapid response in any environment, NAVELSG is one of the most flexible supply groups in the military.
Background
To most Americans, Williamsburg, Virginia, is known as the Colonial Capital. To the "Combat Stevedores" of the Navy, Williamsburg - or more precisely, Naval Weapons Station Yorktown - Cheatham Annex - is known as the capital of Navy expeditionary logistics.
The lessons learned from Operation Desert Storm identified a requirement for a single, multifunctional organization able to provide flexible, deployable transportation and supply support logistics services in any area of the world. Established in 1993, the Naval Expeditionary Logistics Support Group (NAVELSG) was built upon the solid foundation of the Navy Cargo Handling Force (NCHF). The NCHF originated in the 1970s with the establishment of six Reserve Navy Cargo Handling Battalions to support the Marine Corps Maritime Prepositioning Force. The number of battalions grew to 12 in the 1980s.
NCHB-1 in Iraq
Capabilities run the gamut from warehouse and freight terminal management, fuel distribution, tent camp, maintenance and personnel support functions, mail distribution and barbershop, laundry and ship's store to traditional shipboard cargo handling and expeditionary airhead operations. The NAVELSG mission is to provide transportation (cargo handling) and supply Advanced Base Functional Component support to Navy and Marine Corps operational units. NAVELSG is recognized by all major commanders as the force of choice for transportation and supply professionals, trained and equipped to deploy anywhere in the world and provide effective shore-based logistical support to naval operating forces - "Anytime, Anywhere".
NAVELSG, an Echelon IV command directs five Navy Expeditionary Logistics Regiments (NELR) (Echelon V) and their subordinate Navy Cargo Handling Battalions (NCHBs) each battalion composed of one Headquarters Company, four Surface Companies, one Air Cargo Company, one Cargo Transfer Company, one Fuels Company and one Expeditionary Support Company. Additionally, each NELR has an Expeditionary Communications Detachment (ECD).
Units
First Navy Expeditionary Logistics Regiment (1ST NELR), Cheatham Annex
- NCHB 1: The only active duty cargo handling unit, based at Cheatham Annex, Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, Virginia.
Second Navy Expeditionary Logistics Regiment (2ND NELR), , Cheatham Annex
- NCHB 4: Charleston, SC
- NCHB 10: Cheatham Annex, Williamsburg, VA
- ECD 2: Cheatham Annex, Williamsburg, VA
Third Navy Expeditionary Logistics Regiment (3RD NELR), Fort Dix, NJ
- NCHB 7: Great Lakes, IL
- NCHB 8: Fort Dix, NJ
- ECD 3: Tucson, AZ
Fourth Navy Expeditionary Logistics Regiment (4TH NELR), Jacksonville, FL
- NCHB 11: Jacksonville, FL
- NCHB 12: Bessemer, AL
- NCHB 13: Gulfport, MS
- ECD 4: Columbia, SC
Fifth Navy Expeditionary Logistics Regiment (5TH NELR), Point Mugu, CA
- NCHB 3: Alameda, CA
- NCHB 5: Joint Base Lewis McChord, WA
- NCHB 14: Port Hueneme, CA
- ECD 5: North Is NAS, Coronado, CA
External links
Categories:- United States Navy Reserve
- Military logistics of the United States
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