 >>>
FOCUS ON:
PANAMA CANAL TREATY
TRANSITION.... 1979-1999
Summary of Treaty
Transition Milestones
Military Property
Transfers to Panama
|
MILITARY
PROPERTY TRANSFERS (1979-1999) (continued)
| DATE |
PROPERTY
|
REMARKS |
| 1999/
Apr 30 |
Rodman
Naval Station (at the
Pacific entrance to the Canal)
 | 600 acres with deep draft port
facility (including three piers), heavy industrial area,
office building complex, boating and water recreation marina,
fire station, warehouses, swimming pool, three community
clubs, gymnasium, chapel, part of the Horoko golf course, barracks, 86 units of family
housing.
| Major units displaced:
| Last installation commanding
officer: Navy Captain Robert W. Bennett, Jr.
| Transfer ceremony March 11,
1999.
| Adjusted book value:
$327,000,000. |
| | | |
|
Rodman Naval
Station, at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal,
supported U.S. and allied naval ships for fifty years. [Photo from the Southern Command Treaty
Implementation pamphlet on Department of Defense Property
Transfers 1995-1999 to Panama, dated 1994) |
USE BY PANAMA:
| Renamed Jose Vasquez de Balboa
Port by Panama.
| The Panamanian National
Maritime Service is now located at Rodman, from where it
conducts patrolling of the country's Pacific coastline.
| Rodman and its three piers are
now part of the canal's Pacific-end ports and fuel bunkering
systems, supporting ships transiting the Panama Canal |
| |
|
Navy Property
Rodman-
History
Rodman-
New Uses
|
| 1999/
June 1 |
Balboa
West Firing Range (Pacific
side adjacent to the Army's Empire Training Range complex)
3,700 hectare rectangular area
that lies adjacent to the northwest border of Empire Range. Used
to train aircrews in ordnance delivery tactics and techniques
since 1986, according to range control documents. Also used by
Navy SEALS (Sea, Air, Land) units which used the north portion of
the range for training exercises.
|
Air
Force
Property
|
| 1999/
June 15 |
Farfan Naval
Housing (Pacific side
near Howard Air Force Base)
819 acres with:
| Barracks buildings,
warehouses, and swimming pool;
| 100 units of family housing |
|
USE BY PANAMA:
| Part of proposed shipping
containers port. |
| Public sale of housing units
began in mid-2003. |
|
Navy
Property |
<<preceding
page >>NEXT
PAGE
Site
developed, owned and maintained by
William
H. Ormsbee, Jr.
2005 |
SCROLL