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.
McCain was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982. He was trying to focus on his job as a congressman and trying to represent the people of Arizona, says Ann Mills Griffiths, who is more sympathetic to McCain than radical activists. Just because he was a POW didn't mean that was all he could focus on.