NSGA Midway Island was commissioned on July 1, 1954 and was decommissioned and closed in February, 1971. Midway Island was a member of the Eastern Pacific (EASTPAC) HFDF net, from 1952 through 1971. The last Commanding Officer of NSGA Midway Island was LCDR Fred W. Evans.
Midway Atoll, formerly known as Naval Air Facility (NAF), Midway, is a coral circular atoll formed atop a volcanic seamount, and is located 1,100 miles northwest of Oahu, Hawaii at the northwestern end of the Hawaiian archipelago, but is not part of the state of Hawaii. Midway is located just east of the international dateline. Midway Atoll consists of two main islands, Sand and Eastern, totaling three square miles in area, with several smaller islets enclosed within a reef approximately five miles in diameter. Midway has no indigenous population. Midway Island has two serviceable runways with one permanently surfaced and one small minor port.