Photo By Bruce Cummins | PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Naval Air Technical Training Center (NATTC) students participate in...... read more read more
PENSACOLA, Fla. - More than 1,400 Sailors assigned to Naval Air Technical Training Center (NATTC) participated in the first annual NATTC Sports Challenge Olympics onboard Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola July 13.
The event coordinator, Aviation Structural Mechanic 1st Class James Duffy, said the NATTC First Class Petty Officer Association (FCPOA) organized the event to reinforce camaraderie and physical training.
"It's important to not only train these Sailors in the classroom, but also to engage them physically and reinforce the fact that even though they're competing against one another, they're all on the same team," aid Duffy. "Along with a break from the classroom, events such as this serve as a chance for students from different schoolhouses to socialize and compete against one another in a friendly way. These are the shipmates these students will be serving with in the fleet."
Aviation Structural Mechanic 1st Class Jonathan Harrod, the NATTC FCPOA president, addressed the group before morning colors and an instructor-led physical training warm-up session. Teams from NATTC's various departments competed against one another during the four-hour event, playing basketball, volleyball, flag football as well as other activities such as corn hole and "human foosball."
NATTC's avionics training department was the overall champion and also won the day's final event, the tug-o-war competition.
Following award presentations, NATTC's Coalition of Sailors Against Destructive Decisions (CSADD) hosted a cookout.
"The NATTC FCPOA are the front-line Sailors our students see every day," said Master Chief Israel Pedregon, NATTC command master chief. "I couldn't be more proud of these Sailors for organizing an event this large and taking the opportunity to engage our junior Sailors in a fun and competitive way. They continue to excel in making sure our students are ready for the fleet as aviation maintainers and shipmates."
For more than 70 years, with the last two decades at NAS Pensacola, NATTC provides aviation maintenance training to approximately 12,000 Navy, Marine Corps and international students annually.
NATTC is part of the Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training (CNATT), which provides single-site management for Navy and Marine Corps aviation technical training.
CNATT is designed to advance and sustain naval aviation warfighting capabilities at an affordable cost under Naval Education and Training Command.
| Date Taken: | 07.13.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 07.17.2018 08:45 |
| Story ID: | 284548 |
| Location: | PENSACOLA BEACH, FLORIDA, US |
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