NWS Charleston South Carolina

Naval Weapons Station Charleston is a military installation that covers both Goose Creek City, Hanahan, and North Charleston City, South Carolina. The installation covers 17,000 acres of land and 10,000 acres of forest and wetlands.

Naval Weapons Station Charleston was originally established as the United States Naval Ammunition Depot during World War II to serve as an ammunition collection and distribution point in coordination with the nearby Charleston Naval Shipyard.

Currently, the installation is home to the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command; the Nuclear Power Training Unit, Propulsion Facility, and Border Patrol satellite academy; the Naval Consolidated Brigade, Charleston; the Mobile Mine Assembly Unit; several Explosive Ordnance Detachments, a Marine Corps Reserve Center; and an engineering complex for the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center.

Location: 32.928, -79.94
Phone: (843) 764-7000
DSN: 794-7000August 2, 2011

Writing Contest

Housing for Rent Nearby

If you are or were in the military you could be eligible for a VA loan. That entails lower than market rates to help you buy a home rather than renting!

For Rent - 4 Bedroom/2 Bath $1600 Monthly
1600 Sq. Ft.
3 BR rental house in Mount Ple $1150 Monthly
1040 Sq. Ft.
No Photo Provided $950 Monthly
1252 Sq. Ft.
House For Rent $800 Monthly
1000 Sq. Ft.
No Photo Provided $1175 Monthly
2300 Sq. Ft.
No Photo Provided $775 Monthly
1400 Sq. Ft.
No Photo Provided $750 Monthly
 
No Photo Provided $1095 Monthly
1227 Sq. Ft.

Military Bases in South Carolina

Joint Base Charleston Joint Base Charleston Comments

Joint Base Charleston South Carolina is one of the 12 new bases on the US territory, which showed up after the 2005 congressional legislation implying the base consolidation by merging multiple bases. 24 small bases had to merge o...

NWS Charleston NWS Charleston Comments

Naval Weapons Station Charleston is a military installation that covers both Goose Creek City, Hanahan, and North Charleston City, South Carolina. The installation covers 17,000 acres of land and 10,000 acres of forest and wetland...

MCAS Beaufort MCAS Beaufort Comments

Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort is an installation located in Beaufort, South Carolina. The installation was originally established as a training facility for anti-submarine patrols during the Second World War. It was reestablis...