Strike Fighter Weapons School Atlantic

SFWSL logo

Strike Fighter Weapons School Atlantic (SFWSLANT), is a US Navy Atlantic Fleet weapons school based at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The school provides standardized, post-graduate level training for F/A-18 strike fighter tactics, mission planning, strike intelligence and air-launched weapons handling, loading and mission employment to Navy, Marine Corps, and Naval Reserve units. Strike Fighter Weapons School Pacific at Naval Air Station Lemoore in California is the United States Pacific Fleet equivalent.[1] NAS Oceana is where the Navy’s Atlantic and Pacific Fleet force of strike-fighter aircraft and joint/inter-agency operations are located. The airfields of NAS Oceana and NALF Fentress have five carrier air wings and 17 squadrons that conducted 128,675 flight operations.[2]

  1. ^ "Strike Fighter Weapons School Atlantic". Navy.mil. US Navy. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  2. ^ "The air elite: TOPGUN grads, maintainer from Strike Fighter Weapons School Atlantic discuss jobs". WAVY.com. 2022-05-20. Retrieved 2024-07-26.