Tyndall needs to be rebuilt. It has always been a key part of our defense system. Our community has suffered great losses and for Tyndall not to be restored, we will be even further devastated. There have been no hurricane relief funds provided to help. It is like Cat 5 Hurricane Michael never happened as far as news coverage and it still looks like a war zone in many pockets. There are empty lots where homes existed, still hundreds if not thousands of blue tarps on roofs, (My 4 year old granddaughter counts blue tarps on the way to preschool everyday)Some people are still waiting to see if their home will have to be razed or can be repaired. Thousands have been displaced and gone to other areas to live and work, thousands more are living in RV’s and campers while their homes are repaired. Everywhere you look there are trees that are snapped off halfway up, trees that are out of the ground and thousands of tree stumps from many of them.
IMHO Tyndall is no longer a key part of the defense system especially since they deactivated the South Eastern Air Defense (SEAD) Sector of NORAD. The planes based there can be supported out of Eglin or MacDill, or maybe Maxwell or Pensacola. Having 5 air bases within 200 miles of each other does not seem cost effective nor does it have strategic value.
And I worked out of Tyndall after 911 revamping NORAD so I am familiar with what it did.