The PAO is an idiot. There are a very limited number of bases where the P-8 would have come from. Given where she works on the CNATRA staff(and that the Maritime pipeline training that feeds the P-8 training squadron is at NAS Corpus Christi), the assertion that she has no idea where the aircraft came from means she's not suited to her job as the PAO for the Rear Admiral in charge of all aviation training. My further comments will be drowned out by the grinding of my teeth ... where do we find these gems?
Liz Feaster, public affairs officer at Chief of Naval Air Training based at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, said the aircraft was not a Navy trainer with Naval Air Station Corpus Christi or Naval Air Station Kingsville. "We don't know where it came from and what it's doing here," Feaster said.
I can answer that: what it was doing was called "a training flight" and where it came from can be found in the N-3 office in the very building where you work, Liz.
