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I work on Oceana and I am familiar with Langley facilities. Without question, Langley is a huge facility and is geographically capable of hosting Oceana's jets. The biggest problem with relocating the jets over there is the bottleneck traffic of the Navy going across the bridge/tunnel.

Traffic is already insane trying to get to the shipyard from VB, Chesapeake, Suffolk, etc. If you add into that the Oceana traffic coming up 264 and 64, the morning drive time time would be well over an hour on a "good" day. On the return trip, that time would be even greater. We all know how many "good" days there are on 64. When there is a website dedicated to letting you know the status of a road that has been ripped up for years, and will remain so for several more, it is not a good thoroughfare.

Most of the people that work at Oceana live on the south side of the bridge/tunnel. Over time, that number would evolve to the other side as new people moved in, and others took orders elsewhere. But for several years, 64 would be nearly impassable like some roads in California, if not worse. They have 6 lanes on each side, but our tunnel is strictly limited to 2. There isn't enough mass transit, even if people did use it, to compensate for the train wreck that would occur daily in traffic.