Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, serves as the headquarters of the Naval Education and Training Command, which directs and controls all education and training for the United States Navy. Most Navy aviators begin their flight training at the station, which covers 11,386 acres (4,608 hectares) and lies 9 miles (14 kilometers) west of Pensacola. Major activities there include the Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training and the Naval Operational Medicine Institute. The National Museum of Naval Aviation is also there. The station was set up in 1914 on the site of an old naval shipyard. It reached a peak of activity in World War II, when 28,000 aviators trained there.
