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Like Naval Aviators, Naval Flight Officers attend Aviation Preflight Indoctorination at NAS Pensacola , Florida. They also recive basic aviation training, up to, but not including, soloing in a primary trainer. They are then assigned to aircraft types based on training scores. The next stage of training is according to aircraft, and the student Naval Flight Officers go to different bases for this stage. There are different schools for each aircraft type. Some of these are colocated with United States Air Force schools for the same job. In the Fleet, Naval Flight Officers are assigned to Navy and Marine squadrons flying the F/A-18F Super Hornet , F/A-18D Hornet (Marines Only), EA-6B Prowler , E-6 Mercury , E-2C Hawkeye , C-130 Hercules , EP-3 Aries , F-14 Tomcat , and P-3 Orion . In larger aircraft, like the P-3 and C-130, the Naval Flight Officer is the Flight Engineer or Navigator , in the EA-6B, they are the Electronic Countermeasures Operators (ECMO's) and navigator. In the F/A-18F and F-14, the position is that of Radar Interception Officer (RIO), and the Marine F/A-18D's are called Weapons System Officers (WSO's), as well as Forward Air Controllers. In the E-2C Hawkeye, they are Combat Information Center Officers (CICO's). |
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