Hampton Roads
Beginning in 1917, as the United States became involved in World War I under President Woodrow Wilson, formerly rural Sewell's Point became the site of what grew to become the largest Naval Base in the world which was established by the United States Navy and is now known as the Naval Station Norfolk.
Iskenderun Naval Base
The base command hosts the largest of three naval training centers of Turkey, the Iskenderun Naval Training Center, located south of Iskenderun on the motorway . At the Iskenderun 1st Seamen Training Brigade (), Between 2,500 and 5,000 recruits are trained twice a year in shipboard duties and also marine operations that last 45 days. More than 1.5 million seamen recruits were trained and graduated from the training center in Iskenderun since its establishment in 1953.