Kaelan Evans, a 2012, graduate of West Wendover High School completed Naval Basic Training last month at the Naval Station Great Lakes.
NAVSTA Great Lakes is the home of the United States Navy’s only boot camp, located near North Chicago, in Lake County, Illinois.
The son of Becky and Justin Evans, Kaelan now reports to the Naval Base in Pensacola, Florida for advanced training in aviation electronics.
The city has been referred to as “The Cradle of Naval Aviation”. Naval Air Station Pensacola (NASP) was the first Naval Air Station commissioned by the U.S. Navy in 1914. Tens of thousands Naval Aviators have received their training there including John H. Glenn, USMC who became the first American to orbit the earth in 1962 and Neil Armstrong who became the first man to set foot on the moon in 1969. The Navy’s Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, is stationed there.