Jura The idiot
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it's important you're a Priest so you can talk to him
(I'm talkative person, but I wouldn't have known what to say)
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Risk of Natural disasters vs Military facilities
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(I'm talkative person, but I wouldn't have known what to say)
it's important you're a Priest so you can talk to him
(I'm talkative person, but I wouldn't have known what to say)
I'm just a regular guy and he's my brother Bub, its hard to know what to say, but we talked about airplanes and boats mostly, (Jim says boat means "borrow another thousand"), he's got a gorgeous and very fast bass boat, but many Blessings to you all, and prayers for my Brother Jeff Head as well!
and now, back to our regularly scheduled program, lol, I'm very happy our Raptors are back up and running, and I'm a little surprised how quickly they jumped on that! It does show the depth of our US Military, these are very dangerous days for everyone, as the global threat continues to ramp up, our military is at risk from the weather every day somewhere, as are all militaries!!
Jura The idiot
General
Oct 14, 2018
Nine Missions Will Soon Return to Tyndall, Future of Base’s F-22s Uncertain
now (dated 11/2/2018)as I write the USAF Generals are working on how to 'make Tyndall great again', I guess, so let's wait for the next hurricane
I'm telling you it's slovenliness to house Raptors (which are supposed to be one of the most valuable USAF assets) that way, but who'd listen to an Internet kibitzer LOL
Nine Missions Will Soon Return to Tyndall, Future of Base’s F-22s Uncertain
About 1,500 airmen will return to Tyndall AFB, Fla., “in the coming weeks,” said the Air Force on Friday as it rolled out a near-term schedule for limited operations to resume at the .
Within three months, all but about 500 airmen will return to the Florida Panhandle, Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said. The majority, including more than 800 airmen assigned to the 601st Air Operations Center, will return to Tyndall, though many will go to near-by Eglin AFB, Fla.
“We are focused on taking care of our airmen and their families and ensuring the resumption of operations. These decisions were important first steps to provide stability and certainty,” Wilson said in a Friday release. “We’re working hard to return their lives to normalcy as quickly as possible.”
Seventeen Raptors that were deemed unflyable were left to ride out Hurricane Michael three weeks ago. One of the main hangars sheltering the fifth-generation fighters collapsed as the 150-plus mile per hour winds ripped through the base. Though officials initially feared some of the aircraft would not return to the air, that only three remained and all were now in flyable condition. Wilson said on Friday the final F-22s will leave the base by Nov. 6.
In total nine missions will return to Tyndall:
However, airmen assigned to the 43rd and 2nd Fighter Squadrons will continue to train on F-22 simulators located at Tyndall, while the training aircraft, F-22 Raptors, and T-38 Talons assigned to the units will relocate to Eglin. The 372rd Training Squadron, Det. 4, also will relocate to Eglin AFB.
- The will resume operations no later than Jan. 1, 2019.
- The 337th Air Control Squadron will resume air battle manager training at a reduced rate by Jan. 1, 2019, and full production is expected no later than the summer of 2019.
- The Air Force Medical Agency Support team will continue to provide medical facility oversight.
- The Air Force Office of Special Investigations and the Air Force Legal Operations Agency will operate from useable facilities on base.
- The 53rd Air-to-Air Weapons Evaluation Group; the 823rd RED HORSE Squadron, Det. 1; and the Air Force Civil Engineer Center will continue their missions at Tyndall.
- Air Force recruiters will operate from local offices.
Two missions will not return to Tyndall for the time being:
Wilson said there has not been a decision on when, or if, to the 95th FS will return to Tyndall, or whether USAF will change its plan to stand up an MQ-9 Reaper wing at the base.
- Twenty-one F-22s and personnel from the 95th Fighter Squadron—the only operational Raptor squadron based at Tyndall—will temporarily relocate to JB Langley-Eustis, Va.; JB Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska; and JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. The Air Force did not provide a specific breakdown of personnel and aircraft for each base.
- The Noncommissioned Officer Academy will temporarily disperse across four locations: McGhee-Tyson, Tenn.; Maxwell AF—Gunter Annex, Ala.; Keesler AFB, Miss.; and Sheppard AFB, Texas.
The rebuild will require supplemental funding from Congress, though no estimate is yet available and USAF officials say it will take years to rebuild the base.
Jura The idiot
General
Saturday at 8:03 AM
Air Defense Operations Won't Return to Tyndall Until Next Year
butOct 14, 2018
now (dated 11/2/2018)
Nine Missions Will Soon Return to Tyndall, Future of Base’s F-22s Uncertain
Air Defense Operations Won't Return to Tyndall Until Next Year
The U.S. continues to execute a significant mission planning and air defense operation from , Virginia, while repairs are ongoing at , Florida, following Hurricane Michael.
The 601st Air Operations Center, known as "America's AOC," will remain at Langley until at least the new year, officials announced last week.
The Air Force hopes the center, which plans, directs and assesses air and space operations for the North American Aerospace Defense Command and controls air defense for the continental U.S., will be back at Tyndall by Jan. 1 at the latest, a spokesman said.
"We have enough personnel to maintain our aerospace warning, aerospace control and maritime warning missions out of Langley," Air Force Capt. Cameron Hillier, a NORAD spokesman, told Military.com on Friday. "The missions are being executed the same way they would at Tyndall. Airmen relocated to Langley conduct our core leadership, planning and execution functions."
The operations center works with a number of Air fighter jet units that stay on alert 24/7, including , and squadrons. It also includes a handful of air refueling tankers and a Boeing Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft (AWACS), officials told Military.com last year.
The center also conducts some missile defense operations.
"If Mr. Putin ever decided to send Russian bombers our way, or launch missiles our way, we also do a missile defense portion," said Col. John Ferry, , in February.
Hillier said operations have been continuous despite the hurricane evacuation and recovery.
"Every adverse situation has challenges that must be overcome. In this case, our entire team at Tyndall has been affected by Hurricane Michael," he said.
But, he added, it will not stifle "Northern Command's ability to conduct its missions of homeland defense, defense support to civil authorities, and theater security cooperation. Homeland defense is the command's number one priority and has not been affected."
A handful of airmen from Tyndall's Air Force Rescue Coordination Center have also moved to Langley, Hillier said.
The RCC is a small unit that falls under 1st Air Force (Air Forces Northern), dispatching resources at the request of state and federal entities, as well as government agencies in Mexico and Canada. It often helps fill the gap when state or local officials don't have the resources to rescue missing persons within the U.S. On occasion, the center will use domestic drone surveillance flights to locate missing people.
Since its inception in 1974 through 2016, the RCC had saved 16,554 people and boasts the highest saves-to-mission ratio of any command in the service, officials said.
The Air Force did not say whether the RCC will return to Tyndall after the base is restored. Officials have said that some airmen and their families before on-base housing is available again.
"By the winter holidays and, in many cases, well before, we expect all our airmen -- military and civilians -- to have certainty about their options, so that everyone is either on a path or already settled," Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein said Friday. "It will take us a while to restore buildings and infrastructure, but returning our airmen and their combat missions to full strength -- at Tyndall or somewhere else in the interim -- will happen quickly."
Jura The idiot
General
Oct 14, 2018
and here's the news:as I write the USAF Generals are working on how to 'make Tyndall great again', I guess, so let's wait for the next hurricane
I'm telling you it's slovenliness to house Raptors (which are supposed to be one of the most valuable USAF assets) that way, but who'd listen to an Internet kibitzer LOL
All the that were left behind at during Hurricane Michael have moved on to the bases where they will be housed until the Air Force determines their final future destination, the service's top civilian said Thursday.
"All of the F-22s have been flown out now," Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said during the annual Defense One summit in Washington, D.C. "All of the damage to them was minor ... They were repaired and flown out."
The Air Force in recent weeks announced it would relocate its Tyndall F-22 stealth fighter fleet, dividing the aircraft between Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia; Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska; and Joint Base , Hawaii.
in Florida -- roughly 60 miles away from Tyndall in Florida's panhandle -- has also accepted some of Tyndall's F-22s and trainers. The Raptor schoolhouse for pilots in training has also been relocated to Eglin.
The secretary said the Air Force maintains a "hurricane plan for every base" that includes how to shelter aircraft should they not be able to fly out before a storm.
That was the case with the F-22s left behind at Tyndall ahead of Hurricane Michael, officials have said.
The F-22s left behind were reportedly down for maintenance, but top brass has yet to describe on the jets that resulted in them being left rather than moved to , Ohio, where the other F-22s from the 325th Fighter Wing were evacuated at the time of the storm.
"As Hurricane Michael approached the Florida panhandle, 31 percent of F-22 aircraft at Tyndall Air Force Base were designated non-mission capable ... and were sheltered in place," Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said in a letter to Wilson last month.
Fifty-five of the fifth-generation fighters are assigned to the 325th Fighter Wing, Rubio said. That figure squares with earlier reports that up to 17 aircraft may have been damaged by the Category 4 storm.
Earlier this month, Wilson raised the possibility that the nation's most advanced fighters may never return permanently to storm-ravaged based.
"That has not been determined," Wilson said in a conference call with defense reporters on Nov. 2. "We haven't made a decision on that."
Wilson on Thursday said building the base's facilities back to their original state will also take time.
"Base recovery as a whole is probably going to three to five years' time," Wilson said.
"We're now assessing building-by-building what needs to be done," she added, nothing that roughly 500 airmen who have missions at Tyndall have moved to other bases.
The rest of Tyndall's missions will be distributed between Eglin and Tyndall for the foreseeable future, she said. Some may return to the base as soon as January.
About "95 percent of the buildings were damaged in some way; now we're figuring out which ones need to just be leveled, and which ones we need to rebuild," Wilson said.
Dizasta1
Senior Member
"If Mr. Putin ever decided to send Russian bombers our way, or launch missiles our way, we also do a missile defense portion," said Col. John Ferry, , in February.
Really? Seriously? .... gotta say, sounds kinda cheesy and unbecoming of the U.S military which used to be dignified and with standards. Oh well ... everything is going out the window these days.
Jura The idiot
General
Nov 17, 2018
11/28/2018
Tyndall to Host First Exercise Since Hurricane Michael Ravaged BaseOct 14, 2018and here's the news:
11/28/2018
The 53rd Weapons Evaluation Group at Tyndall AFB, Fla., will host its first live weapons evaluation since .
During Combat Archer, which runs Dec. 3-14, F-22s from the 27th Fighter Squadron at JB Langley-Eustis, Va., and F-35s from the 58th Fighter Squadron will fire live weapons.
The exercise will include QF-16s from the 82nd Aerial Targets Squadron, with the 81st Range Control Squadron providing command and control, and the 53rd Test Support Squadron providing electronic attack pods.
The F-22s and F-35s will fly out of nearby Eglin Air Force Base, and the live firing will be conducted in warning areas of the Gulf of Mexico south of Tyndall.
The 83rd Fighter Weapon Squadron will conduct data collection and analysis at Tyndall, according to a 53rd Wing release.
The Air Force announced that the 53rd WEG will remain at the Florida base, and it recently received its first QF-16 after the storm hit.
Jura The idiot
General
noted
Air Force Proposes F-35 Fighters Be Stationed at Tyndall
Air Force Proposes F-35 Fighters Be Stationed at Tyndall
The U.S. plans to , in hopes of stationing three squadron's worth of s at the base in the near future, officials announced Friday.
The service is recommending that Congress use "supplemental funding for rebuilding the base to prepare to receive the F-35 fighter at the north Florida installation," officials said in a release.
"We have recommended that the best path forward to increase readiness and use money wisely is to consolidate the operational F-22s formerly at Tyndall in Alaska, Hawaii and Virginia, and make the decision now to put the next three squadrons of F-35s beyond those for which we have already made decisions at Tyndall," said Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson.
The move would also help boost the number of F-22 aircraft that have been reassigned from Tyndall to other bases amid Tyndall's reconstruction. Squadrons may have the opportunity to plus-up their operational F-22 squadrons from "21 to 24 assigned aircraft," the release said, which may help the stifling fleet.
In July, the Government Accountability Office , mainly due to maintenance challenges and fewer opportunities for pilot training, as well as the fleet's inefficient organizational structure.
If Congress approves the decision and supplemental funding is allocated, the F-35 could be based at Tyndall beginning in 2023, Wilson said. The service added that basing already announced in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Wisconsin "will not be affected by this decision."
The Air Force in recent weeks announced it would relocate its Tyndall F-22 stealth fighter fleet, dividing the aircraft between Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia; Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska; and Joint Base , Hawaii, after Hurricane Michael severely damaged the base in October.
Tyndall was home to the 325th Fighter Wing, comprised of two squadrons. One was operational and one was training. in Florida -- roughly 60 miles away from Tyndall in Florida's panhandle -- has accepted some of Tyndall's F-22s and trainers. The Raptor schoolhouse for pilots in training has also been relocated to Eglin.
The U.S. Air Force in recent months has also been weighing the addition of another F-35 stealth fighter squadron at Eglin, possibly as soon as 2020.
The plus-up of the fifth-gen fighters would give additional resources to the busiest Air Force F-35 training wing, providing pilots necessary, enhanced equipment currently lacking in the pipeline, Col. Paul Moga, commander of the fighter wing, told Military.com in October.
Whether or not the decision to potentially move more F-35s to Tyndall will end up shifting the Eglin boost is too soon to tell, an Air Force official told Military.com on Friday.
The latest news comes as the F-35 has entered its formal operational test phase.
The Joint Program Office and the aircraft's manufacturer, Lockheed Martin Corps., announced Thursday all three F-35 variants belonging to the Air Force, and will be field tested "for the purposes of determining the weapons systems' operational effectiveness and operational suitability for combat."
"The approval to formally begin Initial Operational Test & Evaluation demonstrates the confidence our customers have in the maturity of the F-35's design and performance," Lockheed spokesman Michael Friedman said in a statement Thursday.
"Formal IOT&E will test the system and identify areas for improvement in the most stressing operationally representative environments, and is expected to be complete late summer of 2019," Joint Program Office spokesman Joe DellaVedova said.
Jura The idiot
General
now noticed (dated 12/19/2018)
Tyndall’s Evacuated F-22s Begin Arriving in Alaska
Tyndall’s Evacuated F-22s Begin Arriving in Alaska
The first F-22s and airmen reassigned from Tyndall AFB, Fla., touched down in Alaska on Dec. 17 following the impact of Hurricane Michael at their home base in October.
The airmen, originally assigned to the 325th Fighter Wing, have been reassigned to either the 3rd Wing at JB Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, or the 154th and 15th Wings at JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, with more airmen and Raptors slated to arrive through early 2019. Approximately 300 airmen and an undisclosed number of aircraft are making the move, according to a Pacific Air Forces .
“Our Air Force has acknowledged the strength of Tyndall comes from its airmen and families. We are honored to welcome them to our team and committed to ensuring a smooth transition to the Indo-Pacific,” PACAF boss Gen. CQ Brown said in the release.
F-22s from Tyndall also have been reassigned to JB Langley-Eustis, Va.
The Air Force announced earlier this month that it will the Raptors to other bases, and is asking for supplemental funding to rebuild Tyndall so it can receive F-35s.