Naval Sea Systems Command

Formerly the Naval Support Command (NASCOM), the NSSC started

simple training, maintenance, repair and supply unit of the Off-Shore P
Operating Base at Muelle de Codo.

The NSSC now stands as the biggest industrial complex of the AFP, lo
at Ft. San Felipe in Cavite City with responsibilities for the operation a
maintenance of shipyards, command and control system, combat syst
research and development of technology for the Navy.

The NSSC functions:

1. Maintain and operate shipyard facilities in

order to provideship repair services to PN units
afloat; perform ship repair, design and
construction activities and develop ship building
techniques

2. Provide repair, maintenance and field

services on shipboardweapons,
communications and electronics equipment3.
Manage, operate, and maintain shore-based
communications and electronics facilities and
provide repair and maintenance services on
shore, communications and electronics
equipment

3. Conduct research and development through

maximum utilization of indigenous materials and
resources.

Naval Reserve Command (NAVRESCOM)

The NAVRESCOM was preceded by the Home Defense Command which was
deactivated because it was deemed too expensive to maintain. Its subordinate
units were absorbed by other major units. The need for naval manpower
development however still remained.

NAVRESCOM is now a special unit of the Navy tasked to organize train, equip
and administer the Naval reservists in order to have a base for expansion of the
regular force in the event of war, invasion, rebellion or disasters and calamities.
The NAVRESCOM base is now headquartered at Fort Santiago in Manila.
While NAVRESCOM is a relatively young unit, it has proven its efficiency in
fulfilling its mission of providing administrative support to reservists nationwide
and their effective utilization in time of peace and war and to assist in the socio-
economic programs of the government.

Naval Education and Training Command (NETC)

The Naval Education and Training Command, now based in San Antonio
Zambales, traces its roots back to the Off-Shore Patrol School founded by the
late Commodore Jose V. Andrada. The Off-Shore Patrol School produced many
graduates who would later become FOICs of the Navy.

After the war, the OSP School made its home in Malacañang. In 1946, the
school was transferred to the Cavite Naval Base. It later became the Naval
Training Command right before its present incarnation.

Its basic function: to maintain a high degree of discipline, competence and

technical proficiency of PN personnel essential to the accomplishment of the
Navy's mission. It also serves as the doctrines development center of the
Philippine Navy.

Naval Construction Brigade

Tasked to conduct naval construction and combat engineering operations, this

unit is more popularly known as the "SeaBees". It's a specialized unit which
performs construction and rehabilitation of piers, harbors and beach facilities,
harbor clearing and salvage works, construction of roads, bridges and other vital
infrastructures.

Naval Base Cavite (NBC)

NBC provides support services to the Philippine Navy and other AFP tenant
units in the base complex, such as refueling, re-watering, shore power
connections, berthing, ferry services, tugboat assistance, sludge disposal
services and housing.

Bonifacio Naval Station (BNS)

BNS replicates the functions of Naval Base Cavite for Philippine Navy units
located in Fort Bonifacio in Makati City.