Some Tyndall units return or relocate

ARLINGTON, Va. - The Air Force announced Nov. 2 that several key Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., missions will be returning following devastation caused by Hurricane Michael on Oct. 10. A number of those key missions will resume within the next few months, and others will shift to other locations for the time being. All but some 500 personnel will return to the Florida panhandle base. “We are focused on taking care of our Airmen and their families and ensuring the resumption of operations. Tyndall’s Non-Commissioned Officer Academy will temporarily disperse across four locations – Keesler AFB, Miss.; McGhee-Tyson Air National Guard Base, Tenn.; Maxwell AFB-Gunter Annex, Ala.; and Sheppard AFB, Texas. Units to resume operations at Tyndall: 601st Air Force Operations Center (NLT Jan. 1); 337th Air Control Squadron’s air battle manager training at a reduced rate by Jan.1 (full production by summer); Medical Agency Support; Office of Special Investigations; 53rd Air-to-Air Weapons Evaluation Group; Legal Operations; 823rd Red Horse Squadron, Det. 1; and Civil Engineer Center. Units to relocate to Eglin AFB, Fla., with reach-back to Tyndall: 43rd and 2nd Fighter Squadrons’ F-22 Fighter Training and T-38 Adversary Training; academic and simulator facilities at Tyndall will be used to support training, as well as Tyndall’s surviving low observable maintenance facilities; and 372nd Training Squadron’s Det. 4. Units without sufficient infrastructure will relocate: Personnel and F-22s from the 95th Fighter Squadron will relocate to Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va.; Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska; and JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. “By the winter holidays, and in many cases well before, we expect all our Airmen - military and civilian - to have certainty about their options, so that everyone is either on a path or already settled,” said AF Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein. (Source: Secretary of the Air Force 11/02/18)