FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: NAS Pensacola, Florida ~ 23 FEB 2016

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: NAS Pensacola, Florida

Naval Air Station Pensacola or NAS Pensacola, "The Cradle of Naval Aviation", is a United States Navy base located next to Warrington, Florida, a community southwest of the Pensacola city limits.

It is best known as the initial primary training base for all Navy, Marine and Coast Guard aviators and Naval Flight Officers, the advanced training base for most Naval Flight Officers, and as the home base for the United States Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the precision-flying team known as the Blue Angels.

The air station also hosts the Naval Education and Training Command (NETC) and the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute (NAMI), which provides training for all naval flight surgeons, aviation physiologists, and aviation experimental psychologists.

With the closure of Naval Air Station Memphis in Millington, Tennessee and the transition of that facility to Naval Support Activity Mid-South, NAS Pensacola also became home to the Naval Air Technical Training Center (NATTC), providing technical training schools for nearly all enlisted aircraft maintenance and enlisted aircrew specialties in the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Coast Guard.

NAS Pensacola contains Forrest Sherman Field, home of Training Air Wing SIX, providing undergraduate flight training for all prospective Naval Flight Officers for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps, and flight officers/navigators for other NATO/Allied/Coalition partners. TRAWING SIX consists of the Training Squadron 4 (VT-4) Warbucks, Training Squadron 10 (VT-10) Wildcats and Training Squadron 86 (VT-86) Sabrehawks, flying the T-45C Goshawk, and T-6A Texan II.

A select number of prospective U.S. Air Force Navigator/Combat Systems Officers, destined for certain fighter and bomber aircraft, were previously trained via TRAWING SIX, with command of VT-10 rotating periodically to a USAF officer.

Today, all USAF Undergraduate CSO Training (UCSOT) for all USAF aircraft is consolidated at NAS Pensacola as a strictly USAF organization and operation under the 479th Flying Training Group (479 FTG), an Air Education and Training Command (AETC) unit.

The 479 FTG is a tenant activity at NAS Pensacola and a geographically separated unit (GSU) of the 12th Flying Training Wing (12 FTW) at Randolph AFB, Texas. The 479 FTG operates USAF T-6A Texan II and T-1A Jayhawk aircraft.

Learn More About NAS Pensacola HERE!!

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[radu]

Ouch on early Reveille!
Sleep well, and I hope tomorrow’s a good one for you.

[PROCON]

Same age? I don't think so, I'm 29....LOL.

I graduated in 1969 and at the ripe young age of 64 feel real good about life.

I've lived and been all over the world multiple times. Now I'm just ready to stay put, relax everyday and stay happy!

[luvie]

There Is A Beautiful
Full Moon Out There Tonight!
It is called the Cold Moon



Suzanne Ciani~Full Moon Sonata

Barry Manilow~Moonlight Serenade.wma

Paul Hardcastle~Midnight Moon

Mannheim Steamroller~Midnight On A Full Moon

Michael Buble~Moondance.wma

Frank Sinatra~Fly Me To The Moon

GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS!

[luvie]

Did you get your blizzard? :)

[luvie]

Thanks, gals, for a great road trip!

[moose07]

Good Evening,Kathy.
Been too long since I last pinged you, hope you’re keeping well.

[luvie]

Howdy ML! How ya doing? Still freezing her bum off up there?

[luvie]

Now?

[luvie]

Now?

[luvie]

Now?

[radu]

We are about the same age .... I’m 28. LOL
64 is just around the corner for me but I just ignore birthdays nowadays. That’s how I hang on to Peter Pan. If I ignore my birthday, it didn’t happen so I didn’t get older!

Haven’t been around the world but have done enough travelling to get it out of my system. Quite happy to putter around the farm, herding these kittehs. Life is good.

[radu]

Hey there, LUV!
Nope. Didn’t get the Blizzard today. It was so wet and ugly I didn’t go anywhere.

BUT, tomorrow I take one of the cats to the vet and there’s a DQ on the way!

[PROCON]

[radu]

One of the many gorgeous ship models at the Naval Aviation Museum.

They're set out all around the first section of the museum and are a sight to behold. All are exquisitely built.

[radu]

WOOHOO, LUV! Slipped in and snagged it!

[eyedigress]

Walking on the wood deck of a Carrier is quite a bit to soak in.

[radu]

HOLY COW!! I just went blind!!!!

[radu]

I can imagine it would be! I was surprised at how many of the carriers had wooden decks.
Those models fascinated me.

[PROCON]

DQ?

Well, if you haven't been to one in awhile, there are about 50 different Blizzard flavors.

Start with a chocolate covered cherry Blizzard and then make your way through the chocolate alphabet :-)

[radu]

Nope. I’m going for that chok-lit truffle thingie Kathy posted a pic of last night! Oooooooh myyyyyy.

Drat, I’d managed to put it out of mind today and now it’s back full-force. Gonna be a long night.