Extrapolating from my 1959 "Flight Jacket" - with alternating week
NavCad/MarCad and AOC's, and OI's every week - I would estimate 50/week
in Summer/Fall in Pre-flight. Of course that was the tail end of NA's
serving as VR/VP/VW navigators and VAH B/N's. They began training NAO's
(1960) as non-pilot navigators in Corpus Christi and B/N's in Whidbey
and Sanford (VAH RAG's had been training NAO's and enlisted B/N's and
third crewman from the AJ Savage days.) The first NAO(R)'s appeared with
VF-74's F4H-2's in 1962, probably trained in the VF RAG at Oceana.

In 1960, Corry, Barrin and Bronson were long closed; helo wings were
received in Ellyson, S2F/WF in New Iberia, single engine/multi engine
recips at Corpus, jets at Chase/Beeville or Kingsville.
Joel McEachen VAH-5

vincent p. norris wrote:
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 18:28:24 -0500, "John Carrier"
wrote:

...... About 15,000 airmen aviators and crews are trained there
annually.
... Most of those 15,000 are various enlisted schools grads.

Thanks for the clarification, John. That "15,000" jumped out at me,
and I couldn't believe it. Pensacola was going full speed ahead when
I went through, with ops at both Whitings, Corry, Saufley, Ellison,
and probably others I've forgotten, but it wouldn't have added up to
anywhere near 15,000 per year.

vince norris