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Fleet Readiness Center Mid-Atlantic

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Fleet Readiness Center Mid-Atlantic
ActiveOctober 2006- Present
BranchUS Navy
Commanders
Commanding OfficerCAPT Rick Foster
Executive OfficerCAPT Christopher Grimes
Command Master ChiefCMDCM James Werner

Fleet Readiness Center Mid-Atlantic (FRCMA) is an American naval aviation maintenance and repair facility headquartered on board NAS Oceana. It is one of 6 main subsidiaries of the Fleet Readiness Centers. FRCMA currently has nearly 2,500 sailors, marines and civilian workers.

Services

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Fleet Readiness Center Mid-Atlantic performs scheduled maintenance inspection and repair, unscheduled emergency in-service repair, structural and electronic system modifications on numerous carrier based aircraft.[1]

The FRCMA Staff is located in Hangar 200. FRCMA also consists of five different sites: FRCMA Det Oceana, FRCMA Det Norfolk, FRCMA Det Patuxent River, Voyage Repair Team (VRT) Norfolk and Mayport, and FRCMA Aircraft Department (Oceana and Norfolk). These sites support the F/A-18, E-2, C-2, H-60, CH-46, AH-1, UH-1, EA-6B and H-53 aircraft/helicopters, ground support equipment, associated F-414, T-56, T-700, T-400, T-64 engine models, and ARLE.[1]

Innovation

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A FRCMA sailor won Athena Project DC, a yearly competition to test the most innovative, time saving and cost saving projects to help the Navy's goals.[2]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Fleet Readiness Center Mid-Atlantic". US Navy. Retrieved 9 September 2018. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ "FRCMA Sailor's innovative idea wins Athena Project DC 2.0, Adm. Sims Award for Intellectual Courage". 8 May 2017.