History
Located in Port Hueneme, California, 1 NCR exercises command and control over subordinate Naval Construction Force units. During peacetime these are NCB-18, NCB-22 and NCB-25.
1 NCR was first authorized in July 1967 to exercise operational control and assist its subordinate units in achieving their mission. At the time of commissioning, 1 NCR was located Armed Forces Reserve Center, Los Alamitos, California, moving to its present location at Port Hueneme, California in September 1994.
In 2003, 1 NCR was activated to backfill for 13 NCR when it went forward in support of OIF/OEF.
Again, in 2005, 1 NCR was activated in support of OIF/OEF. This time the regiment combined with 13 NCR to form a "combined" regiment; a first ever approach. This allowed13 NCR to break its one-year deployment to Iraq into two six-month rotations.
Main body was activated in June 2008 and subsequently sent to Al-Anbar Province, Iraq. However, when support was needed for Marine Corps forces in Afghanistan, the 1 NCR responded with an immediate departure to Kandahar Airfield. There, they transformed the single-tent, Camp Natasha into the vastly populated and more functional Camp Leatherneck, from which several operations were launched by U.S. Forces.