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SPOTLIGHT
May 1, 2015
Florida Gubernatorial Fellows visit Pensacola training commands By Lt. Cmdr. Sven Sharp Naval Air Technical Training Center Public Affairs
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he Florida Gubernatorial Fellows Class XI toured Naval Air Technical Training Center (NATTC) during a visit to Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola April 16. The Florida Gubernatorial Fellows is a non-partisan program that immerses students from public and private universities in key areas of state government. During their nine-month tenure at the capital in Tallahassee, the fellows receive on-the-job training as well as a front-line view of the inner workings of government. At NATTC, the seven Fellows saw the full range of aviation maintenance and air traffic control training including several laboratories covering aviation ordnance, jet engine maintenance, aircraft structural repair metalworking and diesel engine repair. They also saw the air traffic control simulators in action, showing how controllers manage aircraft at both shorebase airports, and aboard aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships. Accompanying the fellows through NATTC was Cmdr.
Scott Sherman, NATTC’s prospective executive officer. “We do our very best to be good stewards of the taxpayers’ dollars as we train future naval aviation maintainers, and today’s visit was an opportunity to showcase our outstanding Navy, Marine Corps and civilian instructors, and the facilities,” Sherman said. For more than 70 years, NATTC has been delivering training to support readiness within the Naval Aviation Enterprise. NATTC graduates approximately 15,000 Navy and Marine students annually. The majority of the student body is comprised of enlisted personnel attending “A” schools, where they are gaining the knowledge and skills required to perform in fleet as technicians at the apprentice level. NATTC’s advanced schools provide higher-level technical knowledge for sen-
Florida Gubernatorial Fellow Emmanuel Osemota (second from right) asks AD1 Stefano Bitjoka about a P-3C Orion engine at Naval Air Technical Training Center (NATTC). While in Pensacola, the Florida Gubernatorial Fellows also visited with Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward to discuss the dynamic between the city and its military counterparts. Photo by Ens. Emily Wilkin
ior petty officers, and specialty schools offer specific skills not particular to any one rating, such as airman apprentice training, maintenance, personal financial management and shipboard aircraft firefighting. NATTC also conducts technical training for officers in aviation fuels,
carrier air traffic control center operations, aircraft launch and recovery equipment, shipboard aircraft fire fighting and amphibious air traffic control center operations. For more information about Naval Air Technical Training Center visit https://www.netc. navy.mil/centers/cnatt/nattc/
Default.aspx . For additional information on the Naval Education and Training Command, visit the NETC website: https:// www. netc. navy. mil. For more news from Naval Education and Training Command, visit www. navy. mil /local/ cnet/.
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