Command shipping out

NEW ORLEANS, La. - The Navy Reserve Forces Command will officially pull up anchor Friday for its new home in Norfolk, Va., ending 36 years of a national naval headquarters presence in New Orleans. For the first time in almost a century the Navy will not have an admiral based in the city. The Navy remains in the region through the Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base in Belle Chasse, the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center near the University of New Orleans and the Marine Forces Reserve. The closing is part of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure round. (Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 04/25/09)