Just based on photos, you can start adding up the funding requirements. You would be talking about 700 million-plus on repairs or complete replacement of buildings. Time to achieve this? Two years?
My guess is that they will fix the runway and hangers...maybe put up a barracks for the aircraft maintainers and some limited support personnel, then move the bulk of support folks over to Eglin.
I’ll even add this comment. It’s only a question of when Eglin gets a major hurricane to come through, and lay it flat as well. All of these installations along the coast make no sense.
Moving things to Moody, vs. Eglin, would seem to make more sense.
Except that Eglin is a major testing base. Real estate on which mil systems can be tested is at a premium in this country these days.
Moving the base to another one would cost about the same. Base housing would need to be built, hangers for the increased aircraft, etc, etc.
Better to rebuild with more hurricane resistant buildings and keep a more dispersed target area.
Eglin is a about 10 miles inland and that makes all the difference. Tyndall was like Patrick, with the flightline running right along the beach.