Time for N-12 and N-13 to Move too!

A Decade in Millington

September 28th, 2008

OK, maybe it’s just me - wouldn’t the organ to best describe the story be the womb?

Congrats Millington!

Full speed ahead: Millington celebrates 10 years as heart of Navy

By Tom Bailey Jr. (Contact), Memphis Commercial Appeal
Sunday, September 28, 2008

Ten years ago, the Navy officially changed the purpose of its work in Millington from a technical training center to the service’s personnel headquarters.

Navy Personnel Command will celebrate its first decade at Naval Support Activity Mid-South with three days of events this week from Thursday through Saturday.

“I think we were all surprised when the decision was made to move everything out” to Millington, Rear Adm. Sonny Masso said of the recommendation in 1993 by the Base Realignment and Closure Commission.

“But we absolutely grew to have the feeling this was profoundly the right thing to do,” said Masso, commander of Navy Personnel Command.

Why? Millington is centrally located, Masso said. The former headquarters, Arlington, Va., is in the East.

The Personnel Command draws 60,000 visitors a year, mainly to sit on boards that make promotions and assignments.

“They come from the four corners of the nation,” Masso said.

Navy Personnel Command writes the assignment orders for more than 330,000 sailors worldwide.
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