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Pensacola NAS OCS to close
 PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION, Fla. (AP) - The college graduates who are soon to complete training at the nation's oldest naval air station will be the final class to graduate from the base's officer candidate school, ending a military tradition that lasted nearly seven decades.After graduation ceremonies on Friday, the school will close and consolidate with a training center in Newport, R.I. "Hundreds of classes have suffered out there" on the exercise field and parade deck at Penasacola Naval Air Station, said Allen Hamby, a 21-year-old admiral's son and University of Central Florida graduate who plans to be a supply officer. "And we are going to be the last class doing it." Posted by: Steve White 2007-09-17 |
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