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NFO training question?
Hi all,
This is my first post here but I've been reading this website for a while now. I'm grateful for the internet and you ladies being willing to post. My boyfriend of 2 years is currently in OCS and is hoping to receive training as an NFO once he graduates. I recently found out (last week) that I got into graduate school though. We were hoping I would be able to move with him during his time in Pensacola. However, though my graduate school is online, it requires me to know about a semester in advance the sites for my nurse practitioner clinicals. My ultimate question is: how long would he be in Pensacola for NFO training? 18-24 months? It seems that he could do primary or intermediate training in other places than Pensacola, correct? Thanks for any and all information!
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Permalink Reply by Marianne on
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Tarheelgirl:
My son is an NFO currently in his second year deployed in Japan. He completed primary and intermediate in P'Cola in about 15 mos., but there were lots of delays in the pipeline. He then was in Norfolk for another 10 mos. of training before winging. The timing for P'Cola depends a lot of sheer availability of resources. He had to wait before starting and then again between primary and intermediate simply because they had too many pilots and no flying time available. Once he was in Norfolk, things went faster because they graduate less than 50 NFOs there a year (or at least that's what his CO told me at winging).
Congratulations on grad school and good luck to both of you.
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I got an email from him today and apparently some of the class graduating before him are getting orders to go back to their recruiting station to help there before heading to P'Cola, due to the delays. Thanks so this information though, it really helps to have a better understanding of what I'm signing up for!
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Permalink Reply by Vcstones on
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Tarheelgirl - my son graduated OCS in May and reported Pensacola 4 days later. He is almost through the first part of primary 9 months in. He seemed to be one of the first ones coming through from his class. He should select an aircraft in the next 4-6 weeks and from there he will stay in Pensacola or continue in Jacksonville or Oklahoma - or at least that's what I understand. There's a chance he would stay in Pensacola for 18-24 months but that just depends on the aircraft. That's not alot of good advice for you - except it might help you plan for yourself.
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