NAB Chapel

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NAB Chapel on Guadalcanal Road in Coronado provides worship services, pastoral counseling, and religious education for active-duty personnel and families stationed at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado on Coronado Island. The chapel sits on a 1,000-acre installation formally commissioned in 1944 that serves as the West Coast hub for Naval Special Warfare, housing SEAL Teams, Special Boat Teams, and Explosive Ordnance Disposal units whose operators train on the Silver Strand beaches and in the waters between Coronado Beach and the Pacific. Catholic Mass, Protestant worship, and denominational services rotate through the chapel on a weekly schedule set by the base chaplain corps, and the multi-faith programming reflects the religious diversity of a military community drawn from every state and demographic. Outdoor recreation and morale programs at adjacent facilities such as NASNI Outdoor Adventure Center complement the chapel's spiritual mission by providing surfing, kayaking, and beach equipment to service members stationed in the 92118 ZIP code. The Silver Strand corridor connects NAB to Silver Strand State Beach and the Coronado Cays residential district, and military families living off-base in the Coronado village access the chapel via the flat island grid that connects Orange Avenue, Hotel Del Coronado, and the Coronado Bridge approach. Pastoral counseling services address deployment stress, reintegration challenges, marriage and family issues, and grief support — a confidential resource protected by military chaplain privilege that supplements the clinical mental-health services available through Naval Medical Center San Diego. The chapel's community-outreach calendar includes holiday toy drives, Thanksgiving meals, and family-resilience workshops designed for the unique pressures of special-operations military life on Coronado Island.