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{{short description|United States Navy base in Washington, DC, United States}}
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|location= Anacostia, Washington, D.C.
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|caption=Aerial view of NAS Anacostia in the mid-1940s
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[[File:T-28 Trojan memorial (Washington, D.C.) 004.jpg|thumb|[[T-28 Trojan]], BuNo ''137796'', memorial near the main gate, the last T-28 in the Training Command, retired March 1984.]]
'''Naval Support Facility (NSF) Anacostia''' is  a [[United States Navy|United States Naval Base]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], close to where the [[Anacostia River]] joins the [[Potomac River]]. On 1 October 2010 the base was conjoined with the adjacent [[Bolling Air Force Base]] to form the [[Joint Base Anacostia–Bolling]] in accordance with congressional legislation implementing the recommendations of the [[2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission]].<ref name="JBAB">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cnic.navy.mil/JBAB/index.htm |title=CNIC Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling |access-date=2013-12-26 |archive-date=2013-02-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130220134435/https://cnic.navy.mil/JBAB/index.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> NSF Anacostia fell under the command of Naval Support Activity Washington.
==History==
Prior to [[European colonization of the Americas|European colonization]], the area where the Naval Support Facility Anacostia was located was inhabited by the [[Nacotchtank]], an [[Algonquian peoples|Algonquian]] people. The largest village of the Nacotchtank was located just north of Bolling Air Force Base, south of [[Anacostia Park]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/articles/native-peoples-of-washington-dc.htm |title=Native Peoples of Washington, DC |publisher=National Park Service |access-date=2020-02-22}}</ref> Two [[Ossuary|ossuaries]] (burial grounds) have been discovered at Bolling Air Force Base. Other Nacotchtank archaeological sites have been found at Giesboro Point on the Potomac River, close to where the Naval Support Facility was once located.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/nace/learn/historyculture/shpw-history.htm |title=Shepherd Parkway - Early History |publisher=[[National Park Service]] |access-date=2020-02-22}}</ref> The two burial mounds, which included Nacotchtank bones and skulls, were discovered in 1936 by crews working at Bolling Air Force Base. The burial site was also likely once a Nacotchtank village.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/11/22/native-american-tribe-once-called-dc-home-its-had-no-living-members-centuries/ |title=A Native American tribe once called D.C. home. It's had no living members for centuries. |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=2020-02-22}}</ref>
The Navy began testing [[seaplane]]s at this facility in 1918, and eventually it became a [[naval air station]], supporting conventional [[aircraft]]. Located immediately north of [[Bolling Air Force Base]], NAS Anacostia remained in service as an active naval air station until 1962, when its runways were deactivated along with Bolling's due to traffic pattern conflicts with the nearby [[Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport|Washington National Airport]].
Redesignated as a naval support facility, NSF Anacostia served as the headquarters for Commander, Naval Installations, Navy Office of the Chief of Information and continued to maintain a large heliport facility, primarily used by Marine Helicopter Squadron One ([[HMX-1]]) in support of "[[Marine One]]" [[President of the United States|presidential]] transport operations with [[H-3 Sea King|VH-3D]] and [[Sikorsky S-70|VH-60N]] aircraft.<ref>United States Navy. [https://www.cnic.navy.mil/NDW/NDWInstallation/NSAWashington/NSFAnacostia/index.htm "NSF Anacostia"], Naval District Washington website.  Retrieved on November 18, 2007.</ref>  These activities remained when the base was incorporated into the larger [[Joint Base Anacostia–Bolling]].
===Tenant commands===
*United States Navy Ceremonial Guard
*[[District of Columbia Army National Guard]]
*[[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] [[Inspector General]]
*[[HMX-1|Marine Helicopter Squadron (HMX-1)]]
*[[Marine Forces Reserve]] Center
*[[White House Communications Agency]]
==References==
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==External links==
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*[https://www.cnic.navy.mil/NDW/NDWInstallation/NSAWashington/NSFAnacostia/index.htm NSF Anacostia] (official webpage from Naval District Washington website)
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