Naval Operations School
military school in Bremerhaven, Germany
The Marineoperationsschule (MOS) was a naval school and is the central training facility of the German navy for tactics, navigation and communication with headquarters in Bremerhaven and training group in Wilhelmshaven. Since 1 October 2012 she has been subordinate to the Head of Personnel, Training, Organization in the Navy Command in Rostock.
History
Barracks
The barracks of the later Naval Operations School was built between the World Wars in the Geesteschleife on the site of the former Joh. C. Tecklenborg shipyard in the Bremerhaven district of Geestemünde. After the Second World War, the facility was used by the US naval forces in Germany. From 1952, German members of the Labor Service Unit (B) were trained there. The German Navy took over the training facilities in 1956. Two schools were created, the Technical Naval School II (TMS II) with a teaching group and the Naval Locating School as a forerunner of the later Naval Operation School.
Naval Tracking School
The naval tracking school was set up on 15 July 1956, and was initially under the naval telecommunications command, which was renamed in 1962 to command of the naval command service. From 1965 until it was decommissioned, it was under the Naval Office.
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