Western Range (USSF)

[5] The Navy established the Naval Missile Facility at Point Arguello (NMFPA) after the transfer from the Army of 19,800 acres from the southern portion of Camp Cooke in May 1958.

Camp Cooke was a World War II training and POW facility and a maximum security Disciplinary Barracks site.

IRBM impacts were northeast of Hawaii and covered by a system terminating at the Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay operational November 1958.

[7][8] Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara directed a restructure of the missile ranges on 16 November 1963 with an effective date of 1 July 1964.

This restructure shifted responsibility of major sections of the Navy's Pacific Missile Range to the United States Air Force.