Upon completion of the training, candidates will go to Navy Dive and Salvage Training Command (NDSTC) , Panama City, Fla., for Second Class Dive School, which is 70 training days long. The center has 22 different courses of instruction and a throughput of approximately 1300 students per year, with an average of 300 students in training at any given time.
John McCain officially clinched the Republican presidential nomination on March 4, 2008, sweeping the primaries in Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island, and Vermont. That night, Mike Huckabee withdrew from the race and endorsed McCain.
John McCain and Al Sharpton. When John McCain ran for president in 2008, some commentary focused on the age gulf between him and Barack Obama. So McCain's announcement Tuesday that he will seek a sixth term in the Senate in November suggests that he must be near the upper end of the age range of Senate. Which he is. But, if McCain, who is now 78, is reelected, he probably won't even be one of the three oldest senators in the 115th Congress, much less history.