Marine Corps Security Forces Break Ground on New Facility, Yorktown

Photo By Richard Kotecki | A ceremonial ground breaking was held Dec. 18 at Naval Weapons Station (WPNSTA) Yorktown to kick off the first phase of a military construction project to build new facilities for Marine Corps Security Force Regiment (MCSFR) at the installation. The new construction includes a regimental headquarters, bachelor enlisted quarters, motor transport facility, supply facility and armory. The project is part of a three-phase consolidation of MCSFR, bringing more than 1,000 additional Marines to WPNSTA Yorktown. Participating in the ground breaking, from left to right, are John Lipp from Archer Western Contractors; Navy Capt. Charlie Willmore, operations officer, Navy Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Mid-Atlantic; Lt. Gen. Richard Tryon, commander of U.S. Marine Corps Forces Command; Col. James Bright, MCSFR commanding officer; Navy Capt. Lowell Crow, WPNSTA Yorktown commanding officer; and Mark Hourigan from Hourigan Construction. All three phases of the construction project are slated to be completed by 2018/2019. (USMC photo by Steve Kotecki)  

YORKTOWN, VA, UNITED STATES

12.18.2013

Story by Sgt. Scott McAdam 

Fleet Marine Force Atlantic, Marine Forces Command, Marine Forces Northern Command

YORKTOWN, Va. - A groundbreaking ceremony was held Dec. 18 to begin the first phase of a military construction project to build new facilities for Marine Corps Security Force Regiment at Naval Weapons Station Yorktown.

Phase one will see the completion of a regimental headquarters building, bachelor enlisted quarters (BEQ), supply facility, motor transportation facility and an armory. Phase one is scheduled to be completed in the summer of 2015.

According to Col. James M. Bright, commanding officer, Marine Corps Security Force Regiment, II Marine Corps Expeditionary Force (II MEF), consolidating the security force regiment at one facility will increase MCSFR’s efficiency by bringing all the commanders and staffs together as a unit.

“The consolidation of their facilities here aboard Naval Weapons Station Yorktown will have many benefits, including reducing the geographic dispersal of the unit, improving command and control, enhancing quality of training, mitigation of safety risks and efficiency gains in energy usage,” said Lt. Gen. Richard T. Tryon, commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Command (MARFORCOM).

Phase two will see to the renovation of the current regimental headquarters building for use by Companies A, B and C, a Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team (FAST) training facility and classroom, and the construction of a second BEQ. The third and final phase will consist of the completion of another BEQ and a fitness center.

Total cost for the consolidation project is estimated at $100 million.

Security Force Regiment provides antiterrorism and security forces for the protection of naval and strategic assets around the world.

“I can think of no better location to house and support the security force regiment, whose units deploy around the world in support of our nation’s national military strategy,” said Tryon.

• Date Taken: 12.18.2013
• Date Posted: 12.18.2013 16:29
• Story ID: 118413
• Location: YORKTOWN, VA, US