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I had just left Laughlin for Germany (as a Tsgt) so I am not sure what affect it had on the controllers there. I liked it, even though I was busy as heck. It was not a 24/7 operation. When student flying was down, we all went home. If we came in at 5, and student flying was done at 6, we went home. When students were flying, Laughlin had the biggest block of airspace for an airport, in the entire world, out to 90 miles and up to FL 230. Some of the few pilot friends that I had, told me they had fun flying inverted around airliners passing above their training areas, at or above FL 240. It was a wild career, but I was happy to finally retire.

What was bad at Seymour, was that the work load more than doubled on the controllers that remained at the base, with the enlarged airspace, and the fewer number of controllers.
The Chief Controllers of both the TRACON and the Tower had enough sense to NOT SEND their best controllers to the FAA, nor send their worst.
Instead, they sent average controllers with a very good ability to "get along with almost anyone".
We only had one controller the FAA sent back, and that was because the MSGT was trying to run the 'Displaced USAF Controllers" at the FAA facility, like they were on a military installation.
When all your "team players" are having trouble with their "coach", you replace the coach, and not the team players,
especially if they got checked out quickly and are bringing the traffic flow back up to 90 percent of the "Before Strike" flow, within just a few weeks.

Most of our "Temporary Duty Controllers" were gone for 18 months, and some were gone for 24 months.
I don't remember one coming back, though.
They ALL got jobs with the FAA, at the end of their enlistment with the USAF.