[MilCom] NavNews for Monday, January 03, 2005

[Greg Brazil]

Here is the reason someone out there heard the Blues the other day.
Greg (SF Bay Area)
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>  NNS041231-01. Blue Angels to Commence Winter Training
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>  From Blue Angels Public Affairs
> 
>  PENSACOLA, Fla. (NNS) -- The Navy Flight Demonstration
>  Squadron, the Blue Angels, will make its annual deployment Jan.
>  2, 2005 to Naval Air Facility (NAF) El Centro, Calif., to
>  prepare for the upcoming show season.
> 
>  The 10-week winter training concludes in early March after the
>  team completes a minimum of 120 flights during a rigorous
>  six-days-a-week, three-flights-per-day schedule.
> 
>  The team performs its first public flight demonstration of 2005 at
>  NAF El Centro March 12, and will conclude the season Nov.
>  12 at Naval Air Station Pensacola. The Blue Angels will perform
>  71 shows at 35 locations throughout the United States during the
>  2005 season.
> 
>  Visit the Blue Angels Web site at www.blueangels.navy.mil to
>  view the 2005 show season schedule or for more information,
>  contact the Blue Angels public affairs office, Chief Journalist
>  Victor Brabble, in El Centro at (760) 339-2503 or
>  bapao at navy.mil.