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FS2004 Scenery--NAF El Centro, CA. Initially established as a Marine training facility in the 1930's, NAF El Centro in California provided valuable desert training experience to Tunisian and Pacific bound airmen in the Second World War. After the war, with its wide spaces and temperate climate, the base has continued to be a vital training facility for all services. With the predations of BRAC, El Centro has grown into one of the premier survival, parachuting, and ground-attack training bases of the United States military. This scenery attempts to capture the base more or less as it is today both as a vital training base and winter home to the Blue Angels. By John Stinstrom.