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LOCATION: Pensacola is located in extreme Northwest Florida at the Florida/Alabama state line in Escambia County, 60 minutes east of Mobile, AL, 45 minutes west of Ft Walton Beach, FL, and 500 miles Northwest of Orlando, FL. Altitude ranges from sea level to 120 feet above sea level. Escambia County is 661 square miles. Santa Rosa County 1,024 square miles and the City of Pensacola is 25.09 square miles. Pensacola is a high cost living area based on civilian wages and high cost of rent. NAS Pensacola is located in Escambia County in the panhandle of Northwest Florida. The installation covers a total of 8,423 acres of land - 5,804 acres at NAS Pensacola proper, and over 2,500 acres at other locations including Corry Station, Saufley Field and Outlying Landing Field Bronson. NAS Pensacola FACSFAC controls over 18,000 square miles of airspace.
MISSION: To fully support the operational and training missions of tenants assigned; enhancing the readiness of the U.S. Navy, its sister armed services and other customers enabling them to meet mission requirements.
HISTORY: NAS Pensacola is known as the Cradle of Aviation and was the first site of an established Naval Aviation command during WWI. For a thorough history of NAS Pensacola Region, visit the installation web site.
POPULATION: NAS Pensacola has approximately 14,544 military personnel per year, this does not include family members. All branches of the military are represented on this installation and Corry Station. There are approximately 450,000 people who are residents of the Pensacola area. If you are not authorized to bring your family members with you in your orders, do not bring them.
SPONSORSHIP: Sponsors are provided for permanent duty personnel, sponsors are not provided for students. If you would like to have a sponsor go to the Command Sponsor area for the contact information for your Sponsor Coordinator. All reporting personnel are required to check in at the NAS Pensacola Quarter Deck (850-452-3100 Ext. 0) in the Uniform of the Day with orders in hand. You will be directed to your respective command from there. For your specific command phone number refer to the Major Unit Listing, or contact the Relocation Office.For change of address for incoming mil pers make sure you contact your recieving command (Admin Dept) and let them know you will be forwarding your mail and will pick it up upon your check-in. See the Major Unit Listing for contact information. This is only a temporary measure - you will be responsible for establishing a permanment change of address through the US Post Office as part of your check-in procedures.
TEMPORARY QUARTERS: Single Military Personnel, E-4 and below, will be provided a room in the barracks. There are no Geo Bachelor Quarters available and if you are enlisted E5 or above you will be required to reside in the community. All Visiting personnel should check in at Building 600. Make your reservations at the Navy Lodge, Oak Grove Trailer Park/Camp Site/Cabins as soon as possible, especially during our tourist season - rentals are difficult to locate and have become expensive since the hurricanes. Leave your family members in place until you have acquired a living space. For assistance with temporary lodging while waiting for government quarters (if eligible-must be assigned to NAS Pensacola, Corry Station, Whiting Field or Saufley Field 6 months or longer), or finding community housing, refer to section titled: Housing-Installaion-Temporary Lodging. You can also contact the Relocation/Deployment Office at (850) 452-5991 ext. 3122 or 3124 and request a Welcome Aboard Package - please refer to the Relocation Office site.
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: The Relocation Assistance Office provides Welcome Aboard Packets to all military (active duty and reserves and all branches of the service) personnel, DoD employees and retirees. At this current time our loan locker only has kitchen items/utensils. Contact us at 850-452-5991 ext. 3122, ext. 3124, or ext. 3123.
NOTICE TO STUDENT STATUS PERSONNEL: Family member travel is NOT authorized UNLESS specifically stated within your orders transferring you to Pensacola. US Navy Regulations prohibit payment for moving Household Goods more than once per fiscal year (01 October - 30 September). DO NOT BRING YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS UNLESS AUTHORIZED WITHIN YOUR ORDERS - if you do so there will not be any government compensation for the movement of your family members and short term community housing is difficult to find. In order to acquire on-base housing you must have at least 6 months of assignment at one of the various military installations within the area.
CRITICAL INSTALLAION INFORMATION: Due to Hurricane Ivan and all the hurricanes and tropical storms since 2004 the cost of purchasing a home and rental costs have increased by approximately 60%. Military personnel are strongly encouraged to leave their family members in place until such time as they acquire living quarters - rentals are difficult to find; DO NOT RENT ON LINE. Residental housing and temporary housing are difficult to acquire and month to month rentals are almost impossible to find.