Category: military

Naval Air Station Whiting Field is already known as the base where Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard students learn to fly helicopters, according to Public Information Officer Jay Cope. NAS Whiting…

“Good morning, Vietnam!” Robin Williams delivered this classic line playing Adrian Cronauer, a DJ for the American Forces Vietnam Network (AFVN) in the movie of the same name. Pensacola resident Harr…

The Center for Information Dominance (CID) Unit Corry Station held a change of command ceremony, Sept. 25 at the National Naval Aviation Museum on board Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola. Members of …

Naval Air Station Whiting Field and NAS Pensacola, both recipients of the 2015 Installation Excellence award, hosted Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC), Vice Adm. Dixon Smith, during his to…

According to NAS Whiting Field Chaplain Roy Fondren, 17 percent of Florida’s population is under nourished. So by Whiting Field’s participation in the Feds Feed Families program, the base has “the ab…

Cmdr. Judd Conatser, commanding officer Training Squadron THREE serving at Naval Air Station Whiting Field, will step down Friday, Jul. 17 during a change of command ceremony in the installations Atr…

Staff Sgt. Michael Fuqua, USMC, was promoted to Gunnery Sgt. Tuesday, July 7 at the Naval Air Station Whiting Field headquarters building.  Fuqua, a Milton native, currently works for the 6th Distric…

The Community Planning Liaison Office Naval Air Station Whiting Field worked with other Navy offices to coordinate the purchase of 335 acres of easements near the North and South fields for the purpo…

A Black Hawk helicopter crashed last March, killing 11 servicemen, because two veteran Louisiana Army National Guard helicopter pilots got disoriented and lost control after failing to switch from vi…

Naval Air Station (NAS) Whiting Field recognized the accomplishments of soon-to-be-advanced sailors during a frocking ceremony Thursday, in the installation’s Operations Auditorium.  Nineteen sailors…