Those Texas Rumors...

By now many of you have probably heard those nasty little rumors going around, that we may be moving to Texas. Well those rumors are true, and the probability that we are moving to Texas has now recently turned in to a certainty. So I am sure everyone is wondering, what? Texas? We thought you'd be in Florida for a least a year....Ya well, us too. So here's the story:

First, let me just break down the 4 phases of flight school, so everything is easier to understand:

1. IFS -Introductory Flight Screening, which as you may remember I told you all about in my last blog. IFS is a condensed version of a civilian private pilot's course, including both classroom and flying time, and which Jordan has now completed.
Location: Milton, FL

2. API- Aviation Preflight Indoctrination, the next school Jordan will be starting on Feb. 3rd. This will be 6 weeks of intensive classroom studying and tests, where the same high standards as IFS and each student aviator must score above an 80% on every test, or risk again losing his flight contract. The course material will cover basic aviation training in aerodynamics and turbine engines. In other words, it's going to be more detailed material than was covered in IFS and more focused on military specific aircraft. 
Location: Pensacola, FL


3. Primary- Primary, no acronym here! This consists of 6 months academic, simulator, and flight training. At the end of primary, student aviators will pick their flight platform: jets, helicopters, tilt rotors or turboprops.
Locations: Milton, FL , Corpus Christi, TX & Enid, Oklahoma

4. Advanced- Training commences on the specific aircraft platform picked from Primary. This training is completed at various locations depending on the aircraft platform, including:
Jets-Kingsville, TX or Meridian, MS
Helicopters-Milton, FL

Only after all of this and Jordan's completion of advanced school, will we FINALLY get a duty station, where we will be able to stay put in one spot for a whole 3 years!

Well upon first moving to Florida we had assumed we'd stay here for Primary, which is the reason we picked the house in the location we did in Milton. Our house is halfway between the two bases Jordan would be commuting to, assuming he'd be completing Primary here.  However, by now we should have known, you can't assume anything when it comes to the military. Yesterday, Jordan came home and confirmed that'd we'd be moving to Corpus Christi for his Primary flight training.

Jordan and I both strongly believe everything in life happens for a reason, although it may be hard to see the overall picture through our immediate frustrations, we just need to trust and have faith in the path that is laid out for us. We had a teacher at Santa Margarita that used to always say, there is no such thing as coincidence, just God-incidences. So with that mindset, Corpus Christi, TX is another adventure that we are looking forward to experiencing. It is along the Gulf Coast, and we have set our sights on finding a place on Padre Island.  I am so thankful at the end of the day to have the opportunities we have had so far to experience all these amazing parts of the country. And while it has been and will continue to be frustrating to not feel settled for awhile, I am sure we will look back on these experiences with fond memories we wouldn't change for the world!