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Hidden in plain sight: Inside the Navy’s busiest base
Every helicopter pilot in the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard earns their wings in Santa Rosa County. Not most of them. All of them.
That single fact sits at the center of NAS Whiting Field, and it hints at a scale most locals never realize.
TH-73 Thrashers sit on the tarmac at NAS Whiting Field’s South Field. Every Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard helicopter pilot earns their wings in Santa Rosa County.
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