New NMPS Offices Help Navy Meet Its Individual Augmentee Goals

NORFOLK, VA, UNITED STATES

09.10.2014

Story by Chief Petty Officer James Brown 

Expeditionary Combat Readiness Center

NORFOLK, Va. - Navy Mobilization Processing Site (NMPS) Norfolk and Expeditionary Combat Readiness Center (ECRC) recently opened their new command spaces at building J-50 onboard Naval Station Norfolk. The ribbon-cutting ceremony included distinguished guests Rear Adm. Bryan Cutchen, Commander, Navy Reserve Forces Command, Capt. Douglas Beaver, Executive Officer Naval Station Norfolk and Capt. Randy Johnson, Commanding Officer, Region Mid-Atlantic Reserve Component Command.

NMPS Norfolk’s mission is to provide integrated Individual Augmentee (IA) processing of Active duty and Reserve members deploying and redeploying in support of IA/ILO requirements, contingency operations or national crisis. The new workspace helps address NMPS’s needs.

“The new NMPS Norfolk spaces are absolutely fantastic and the layout will help support Individual Augmentees get prepared for the next phase of their training track,” said Cmdr. Sam Scafe, Officer in Charge NMPS Norfolk.

The area also includes offices for ECRC staff who work hand-in-hand with NMPS with a mission to directly assist Individual Augmentee (IA) Sailors by ensuring they are properly equipped and trained to deploy in support of Overseas Contingency Operations.

“The new work spaces provide a more professional and better organized environment for the Sailors including better areas for matters such as issuing and trying on uniforms and gear,” said Chief Yeoman Kisha Smith of ECRC.

As the last remaining active processing site, NMPS Norfolk is tasked with medically and administratively screening and processing all Sailors deploying and redeploying in support of non-traditional Navy missions globally. In FY13 NMPS Norfolk processed 2654 deployers and 3522 redeployers and is projecting to process over 2670 deployers and 2045 redeployers by the end of FY14. The NMPS staff is comprised of 40 Sailors, 39 of which are mobilized Reservists. These staff members, along with ECRC staff are uniquely suited to assist IAs due to their affiliation in the Reserves and experiences processing through NMPS themselves.

“At the end of the processing week, it isn’t the spaces that makes NMPS Norfolk successful; it is the personnel (mobilized Reservists) that work in those spaces that consistently achieves the Navy’s IA processing mission,” said Cmdr. Sam Scafe, Officer in Charge NMPS Norfolk.

• Date Taken: 09.10.2014
• Date Posted: 09.10.2014 17:19
• Story ID: 141724
• Location: NORFOLK, VA, US