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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 460274, member: 33&quot;]The Atsugi Naval Air Station apparently changed to a Naval Air Facility in the late 1960s. This page, with .mil extension in the URL, is an official U.S. military web page. <a href="https://www.cnic.navy.mil/regions/cnrj/installations/naf_atsugi/about/history.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cnic.navy.mil/regions/cnrj/installations/naf_atsugi/about/history.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cnic.navy.mil/regions/cnrj/installations/naf_atsugi/about/history.html</a> -- as a side note, U. S. military web pages are the only ones that can use .mil as their URL extension. Other U.S. government agencies generally use .gov.</p><p><br /></p><p>About 2/3 of the way down the page there is this sentence: &quot; By the late 1960&#039;s NAS was phasing down preparing to become a Naval Air Facility.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The history of Atsugi is very interesting, as it started out as a Japanese Naval Air Station that was given up to the U.S. at the end of World War II. Now it apparently has mostly U.S. but also some Japanese employees.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then I wondered what the difference is between a Naval Air Station and a Naval Air Facility. This <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_air_station" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_air_station" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia article </a>says:</p><p>&quot;In the United States, a &quot;Naval Air Station&quot; (NAS) is an air base of the United States Navy. When located in foreign countries, they are more specifically named <i>US Naval Air Stations</i> (USNAS), to avoid confusion with naval air stations used by the navies of the host countries.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;A slightly lower level of air base in the U.S. Navy is the Naval Air Facility. These facilities normally support smaller numbers of naval aircraft. Permanently based naval aircraft are usually minimal, with the principal focus being on supporting naval aircraft deployed from other installations. &quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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